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How would they know the laws of federally managed public lands on other planets?
"no matter what planet you're from ", not what planet you're doing it on .
Oh live a little! it was funny
Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
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Or mashed potatoes? "This means something..."
UHF! I caught that reference. It took me years to understand that reference fully. When I saw UHF originally it bugged me that I knew it was a reference to something but I didn't know what. Finally, a decade later I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind and I finally put two and two together.
It was meant to be a direct reference.
I've only seen one part of UHF - Michael Richards' scene w/"The FIREHOSE!!"
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#83Great, this is what was missing from 2020 :-)
What's next... asteroid, aliens, mega solar flare, singularity.
SPOILER: This metallic monolith (most probably guerilla art) has been out there in the desert since 2015-2016.
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#84What rare material could a monolith be made from that would almost certainly suggest extraterrestrial origin?
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#85Reminds me of the fifth element somehow
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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
That's quite bizarre logic. I'd prefer the natural areas stay pristine and not cluttered up with art that was left randomly in the middle of nowhere. 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.
"I'd prefer" isn't logic either so clearly we're in the realm of what we each find comfortable.
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#88It reminds me of Stonehenge. I understand that some people may consider this could set a bad precedent but if its not harming the ecosystem in any way why shouldnt it be allowed to stay up? To me this would be like erasing the paintings we made 5000 years ago.
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Just thinking the same thing. There's no rule the you must clamp down the the first instance of a violation. Leave it be, and leave the rule in place. If there's an epidemic of monoliths being planted on federal land, then you uproot them all and say "this is why we can't have nice things." Until or unless that happens, just leave it alone.
Eh, it's not good enough to get that kind of treatment.
What isn't good to get that kind of treatment.
The purpose of the law is to improve the quality of life. Nothing wrong with changing the law to further that goal. Just give the monolith a permit to make it legit.
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It felt incomplete because it's not a real game, it's a pageant — like little kids dressing up as shepherds and wise men and telling the story of Christmas. 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 j…
I get that, but I'd prefer games that tell a story rather than cause angst whilst they siphon your wallet. Played LoL quite a lot and haven't learnt a thing from it :(
Best games don't tell stories - they generate them. There's no need to make games more like movies or graphic novels because we already have movies and graphic novels.