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How expensive would a solid piece of metal that size be?
A quick look around the internet[0] gives 6" aluminium square bars at $1,473 for 144". The monolith is about 141" long, and has sides of about 23.5", so 16 of those bars would neatly fill it. So if it is solid aluminium, that's about $23,500 in material. [0]: https://www.onlinemetals.com/en/buy/aluminum/6-aluminum-squa...
Monoliths are supposed to be made of stone, hence the name...
> "It is illegal to install structures or art without authorisation on federally managed public lands, no matter what planet you're from," the department said.
How would they know the laws of federally managed public lands on other planets?
Fun art installation, but it should be removed now that it's been found.
Why does it need to be removed? I understand not wanting to set a precedent, but I wish more organizations adopted a mindset that the original can stay, but no others are allowed. That leaves space for a little bit of whimsy.
>The department has not disclosed the exact location of the monolith, fearing explorers may try to seek it out and "become stranded". The big horn sheep wildlife officials were counting are native to many parts of southern Utah, where the terrain is rugged.
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Don't tell Banksy
Or my personal favourite "artist" Wanksy who draws (if he's still going) penises on potholes because they are then considered obscene and therefore will be fixed by the local council
Fun art installation, but it should be removed now that it's been found.
Presumably it's been laying unfound for a while now. If nobody's noticed it all this time, I don't see the point in removing it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-17398342
This isn't that great, it's not worthy of any sort of exception here.
People are really suffering from "it's new and shiny" syndrome.
At least this one lives on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_Ends_Park
In Spore the video game you send down a monolith to upgrade a planet. I found this to be a very tasteful tidbit that paid homage to Kubrick.
It felt incomplete in some ways but Spore was so cool. I don't think there's been anything like it in the sim genre since tbh
You feel it's cool and big, because you're looking at the story of going from the origins of life to the galaxy, but the gameplay doesn't actually support that ambition. Most of what you accomplish has very little impact; it's just a series of hoops you need to jump through, so that you can say that you did them.
Monoliths are supposed to be made of stone, hence the name...
Most monoliths I've dealt with are 20,000+ line legacy C files
But that was an eggregious driver. Previous version: ~15 modules. Rewritten by some purist: 900(!) modules. I kid you not.
> "It is illegal to install structures or art without authorisation on federally managed public lands, no matter what planet you're from," the department said.
How would they know the laws of federally managed public lands on other planets?