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 ce4 » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 9:12 AM UTC

lovegoblin wrote: post #282

ogre_codes wrote: post #160

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The internet sleuthing might just be smoke and mirrors. It's possible this guy already knew where the monolith because he knew the installer or is the installer. Either way, he's comes out looking good. Not sure which is more likely.

Eh there are whole communities of people who do stuff like this as a hobby. There's no particular reason not to believe it.

Yep. I sometimes do this with ads for the housing market here in the 30k inhabitants town. Track down a house where the ad shows some exterior but doesnt tell the exact address, only the town or district. It helps a lot having done some OSM Mapping in the past and it is actually fun.

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by camillomiller » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 9:17 AM UTC

It doesn’t look like a monolith. More like three panels of metal screwed together by whoever land artist brought the thing there. (you can see the screws in the video)

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by nix23 » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 9:17 AM UTC

Maybe bring some apes to that place?

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by encom » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 9:25 AM UTC

noxer wrote: post #332

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).

Imagine if these people would investigate voter fraud. No mainstream media would ever report that ;P

These kinds of people are investigating voter fraud.

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by ulisesrmzroche » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 9:42 AM UTC

Please let it be aliens

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by dusted » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 9:58 AM UTC

why, isn't that the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey ?

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by moritonal » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 10:45 AM UTC

smrq wrote: post #273

b0rsuk wrote: post #90

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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.

That's just, like, your opinion, man. There's clearly a market for, say, JRPGs, and that market is comprised of people who fully disagree with you. Ultimately what you're saying is "there's no need to make games I don't like". Personally, for what it's worth, I love games where you neither generate nor are told stories, but rather where you uncover them. Outer Wilds is the best recent example I know of-- the entire g…

Just want to add that I was actually thinking about Outer Wilds when I wrote my parent comment. That game was a literal journey of the soul for me.

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by gokceozantoptas » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 11:00 AM UTC

CGamesPlay wrote: post #421

bgravinz wrote: post #173

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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.

> war that cost millions of lives Not to show support for the invasion of Iraq, but it was a far cry from "millions of lives". https://www.iraqbodycount.org

I think the only cost is not the body count. One must look to the displaced populations, affects of the drop of GDP, etc. And how one thing led to another and in the end gave rise to (or at least provided the dirt to grow for) IS, etc.

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Post by chordalkeyboard » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 11:22 AM UTC

LegitShady wrote: post #135

monktastic1 wrote: post #91

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It still works, doesn't it? How would they know the laws on this planet?

Pretty sure if they have the technological capacity to travel from somewhere to earth and land undetected they could figure out the laws.

I’m not convinced. Some economist wrote a thing about how if aliens observed us they would think dogs and automobiles were our rulers cause we spend all our energy taking care of them.

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Post by itronitron » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 11:22 AM UTC

geggam wrote: post #348

DavidPeiffer wrote: post #245

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Large scale castings are also tricky. You can't cast a rectangular prism and get good results. As the metal freezes (solidifies), it shrinks. You'd end up with a very poor surface finish at best, and chunks missing at worst. The shrinkage needs to be made up for with some additional molten metal. The fix is pretty simple though. You need directional solidification, meaning the freezing starts on one end and moved tow…

Just a note about aluminum recycling. Humans tend to trash things instead of recycling. Out here in the desert where people dump things I have noticed old steel cans rusted to nothing mixed with aluminum cans which seem to not degrade over time. Arguably if you are worried about the environment and account for human laziness steel cans are better for the environment IMO

A classmate of mine in college made all of his sculptures out of plywood and Bondo, reasoning that they were likely to last much longer than anything made out of metal due to having no scrap value.