The 2001 monolith has dimensions of 1x4x9 and that clearly does not.
Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
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Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
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This guy really is something: > I looked at rock type (Sandstone), color (red and white - no black streaks like found on higher cliffs in Utah), shape (more rounded indicating a more exposed area and erosion), the texture of the canyon floor (flat rock vs sloped indicating higher up in a watershed with infrequent water), and the larger cliff/mesa in the upper background of one of the photos. I took all that and lined…
You have to love the internet sometimes. Someone who works construction (as he stated) can develop a fun investigatory hobby just via the internet. The he can sign his work with a silly name like bear__f##ker (which I'm guessing is a reference to the movie super troopers).
I feel the same way about the people who do OSINT, which is featured in HN every now and then. A fascinating world, to be sure!
Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
#143This is clearly a reference to this movie.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)
What's really fascinating is how such projects are funded. The cost estimates are probably wrong but why?
Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
#144Should have used microservices ;-)
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#145The map in the article of the United States with just Utah filled in was super helpful...
Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
This guy really is something: > I looked at rock type (Sandstone), color (red and white - no black streaks like found on higher cliffs in Utah), shape (more rounded indicating a more exposed area and erosion), the texture of the canyon floor (flat rock vs sloped indicating higher up in a watershed with infrequent water), and the larger cliff/mesa in the upper background of one of the photos. I took all that and lined…
If this guy live streamed himself playing GeoGuessr I’d watch the hell out of it
Watch GeoWizard. He’s pretty much the same.
Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
#147Great, 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.
I love the fact that someone did this such a long time ago and then just waited patiently.
The only person/people who will know who and when put it there are some NSA emps who are most likely rewinding satellite feed from one of their spy sats right now...
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How would they know the laws of federally managed public lands on other planets?
All the federally managed public land policies have been on display at the local planning department in Alpha Centauri for fifty years now.
"It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Flaybooz.”
Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
This guy really is something: > I looked at rock type (Sandstone), color (red and white - no black streaks like found on higher cliffs in Utah), shape (more rounded indicating a more exposed area and erosion), the texture of the canyon floor (flat rock vs sloped indicating higher up in a watershed with infrequent water), and the larger cliff/mesa in the upper background of one of the photos. I took all that and lined…
You may also find 4chan users' tracking of Shia Labeouf's flag interesting. https://www.vice.com/en/article/d7eddj/4chan-does-first-good...
I wish the video there included the post-capture flagpole. Did the guy actually replace it with an American flag? Don't leave us hanging!
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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.
You're assuming that it's art. Maybe it's a critical piece of the machinery inside the earth, the one small probe that needs to be exposed to the atmosphere. I wouldn't want to break it and send the whole planet hurtling into the sun.