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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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> "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.

Invents interstellar travel. Travels 17,000 light years across the universe. Places art work as token of greeting. First contact with human civilization. Alien scientists begin deciphering message. "It reads, 'I am from the Bureau of Land Management...'"

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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The map in the article of the United States with just Utah filled in was super helpful...

Apologies if I've misread your ellipses, but I noticed that map and really liked it. No need to show the other 47 states; the intended information is highlighted better by leaving them off.

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Earlier 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…

I believe the term of art for this, self-described by its adherents, is "weaponized autism"

Like the Focused in the novel "A Deepness In The Sky" by Vernor Vinge.

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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A reddit user [1] found its location [2] and another figured out it was installed sometime during 2015-2016 based on when the satellite imagery changed. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/k01dc3/mysterious_m... [2] https://goo.gl/maps/2xdrTqcnguX3ky8AA

> installed 2015-2016 based on satellite imagery

Unless the artist practiced very good OpSec or was so disciplined that he never checked for satellite imagery of his monument, someone with the right credentials -- like the government with a subpeona or a Google insider -- could identify the artist based on his IP address.

Murderers have been identified and convicted by looking up a unique map coordinate on Google Maps, even going back as far Yahoo Maps.

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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A reddit user [1] found its location [2] and another figured out it was installed sometime during 2015-2016 based on when the satellite imagery changed. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/k01dc3/mysterious_m... [2] https://goo.gl/maps/2xdrTqcnguX3ky8AA

Not a follower of the show but I see on IMDB that WestWorld was filmed near that location in 2016. Maybe something left off during filming?

At least some of it was filmed by Lake Powell, closer to the southwest corner of Utah. It was really weird to see a bunch of troops coming ashore where I was hanging out on the beach a year earlier, against a very recognizable backdrop. Definitely broke the suspension of disbelief.

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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... "

Which is remarkably unclear. Did someone just toss a Trump hat into the air after pulling down the flag? Was the stream stopped before morning returned, and so the only shots are in the dark?

Is it an important set of questions? No. But still a better ending than the "oh yeah they stole the flag, now here's a shot of the flag flying during the day again".

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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> "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?

Open Wi-Fi hotspots

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Now, I'm no conspiracy theorist, and of course we don't know anything for certain, but is it even remotely possible that this could be a prototype of the Xbox Series X?

No. This was clearly installed by a mischievous person relatively recently.
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