Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert • Hacker News Board

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by dmix » Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 5:42 PM UTC

numpad0 wrote: post #108

lultimouomo wrote: post #61

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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…

What I figured from the Internet is technical proficiency in random fields isn’t rare, but a stable, provable, predictable proficiency, on top of passable level of social acceptability, coexisting in a single consistent humanframe, is what is rare.

> but a stable, provable, predictable proficiency, on top of passable level of social acceptability, coexisting in a single consistent humanframe, is what is rare.

Seems like every 'weird job' or skill gets you an American reality TV contract these days. Either that or some Youtube followers.

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by stevespang » Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 5:43 PM UTC

chooseaname wrote: post #70

thayne wrote: post #46

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Probably everyone is a criminal, because no one knows what all of the laws are.

That and there are laws that never go away, like not spitting on the sidewalk or not chewing gum on a Sunday.

In my small Texas town there is the list of "ordinances" at over 11 pages long, over 1,600 different violations with fines ranging from $200 all the way to almost $600. This is just a way to screw people out of their hard earned money. Some Choice Examples: NO MUD FLAPS - $142 NO HOUSE NUMBERS AFFIXED TO FRONT OF HOME - Hearing Required in Court LIT CHARCOAL OR WOOD IN A CITY PARK - $571 CUTTING ACROSS PARKING LOT - $271 USING BBQ GRILL/PIT AT APARTMENT COMPLEX - $500 PUBLIC INTOXICATION ‐ ALCOHOL, OR OTHER SUBSTANCE - $571 GAMING ‐ DOMINOES $275.00 GAMING ‐ CARDS $275.00 GAMING ‐ DICE $275.00 DISCHARGE SLINGSHOT IN CITY LIMITS - $225 HUNTING,FISHING AND CAMPING IN CITY PARKS:GATHERING FIREWOOD - $180 USE OF LASER POINTER - $271 (Does not state how used, as in presentation) RIDING BICYCLE ON DOWNTOWN STREET - $100 ANIMALS: NOT STERILIZED - $130 BEGGING OR SOLICITING - $271 BEE KEEPING: VIOLATE REQUIRED DISTANCE FROM PROPERTY LINE - $321

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by bgravinz » Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 5:44 PM UTC

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #133

wpasc wrote: post #77

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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).

On the other hand, it was people like this that once fingered the wrong person for the Boston Marathon bombing. It's all well and good as long as we remember not to put too much stock in it when it really matters.

Once an entire government worth of people led the US into war that cost millions of lives over fake reports of nukes.

It would be interesting to compare the damage caused by open, crowd-sourced investigative efforts against the damage caused of closed "authoritative" investigative efforts.

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by samstave » Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 5:44 PM UTC

gibolt wrote: post #24

teucris wrote: post #9

> "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?

He shall know our ways, as if born to us.

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by groos » Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 5:44 PM UTC

Wrong dimensions. Supposed to be 1:4:9. Wrong color as well.

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by bni » Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 5:44 PM UTC

scotty79 wrote: post #118

Paul-ish wrote: post #11

How expensive would a solid piece of metal that size be?

Isn't it hollow?

I would bet it is just metal sheets cut to size and then riveted or screwed together on site, then filled with rocks for stability. Metal sheets could be carried there, hole dug out and then assembled by 1 person basically.

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by samstave » Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 5:45 PM UTC

Grustaf wrote: post #2

Monoliths are supposed to be made of stone, hence the name...

I have a Monolisp.

I have a lisp - but I am very monotonous.

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by onlyrealcuzzo » Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 5:45 PM UTC

mensetmanusman wrote: post #165

If it were alien, it would be made of a quasi crystal (a crystal in a higher dimension projected into 3D). Humans have no way of making bulk quasicrystals.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasicrystal

^ Pretty interesting, for those of us who haven't heard about these yet. I at first assumed this was a joke like Unobtanium.

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by late_groomer » Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 5:46 PM UTC

laverya wrote: post #149

discreditable wrote: post #115

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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!

"Down went Shia's white flag of defiance, up went a red Trump hat..."

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by richardfey » Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 5:48 PM UTC

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #59

umvi wrote: post #52

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Most monoliths I've dealt with are 20,000+ line legacy C files

Ha! I once reduced a 10,000 line module in a Broadcom 802.11 driver to one page - a template to construct a message. Calls to the old code (5-6 lines) went to nothing - simply pass your structure to the message API. But that was an eggregious driver. Previous version: ~15 modules. Rewritten by some purist: 900(!) modules. I kid you not.

Please tell me more! How come the calls to the old code went to nothing? It does not surprise me but I wonder how it happened in this specific instance.

Who did the 900 modules rewrite?