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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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Post by tylerrobinson »

Zenbit_UX wrote: post #495
slightwinder wrote: post #484

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> Does earth rules apply to life from other planets? Any law applys to their territory, independant on whether the culprit is a citizen of that country or a foreigner. Whether they can execute the law is of course a different story. But from where someone comes from doesnt matter in the first place. Though, you could argue whether laws are limited to humans or whether they apply to every species. AFter all we don't a…

>Though, you could argue whether laws are limited to humans or whether they apply to every species. AFter all we don't apply the same laws to animals and humans, there are usually differnt sets for each. Please enlighten me on which laws are written for my cat.

As an example, "Pets not allowed on this hiking trail."

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by slightwinder »

Zenbit_UX wrote: post #495
slightwinder wrote: post #484

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Does earth rules apply to life from other planets? Any law applys to their territory, independant on whether the culprit is a citizen of that country or a foreigner. Whether they can execute the law is of course a different story. But from where someone comes from doesnt matter in the first place. Though, you could argue whether laws are limited to humans or whether they apply to every species. AFter all we don't a…

>Though, you could argue whether laws are limited to humans or whether they apply to every species. AFter all we don't apply the same laws to animals and humans, there are usually differnt sets for each. Please enlighten me on which laws are written for my cat.

How should I know, I don't know which country you are living...

Though, usually it's not laws which are meant to be understood by the animals. Those laws are about how humans handle and integrate animals in their human society. They regulate who can own a pet, what rights and duties they have and which rights other people around those animals have (landlords for example, or research facilities doing animal experimentation).

But usually you will not find a law that demands your cat to go to school, or wear clothes, or paying taxes, that it's forbidden to enter private ground, to steal or kill, and such things. As also anything like having any citizen-rights and duties coming with them. Majority of laws are written for people who are able to understand them and can follow them, not for those who are living besides us.

Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by [deleted] »

djhaskin987 wrote: post #344
mholt wrote: post #296

(deleting, because now my comment is getting pasted all over the Internet, and though it was not to my knowledge misleading, it didn't actually provide any useful information)

Fellow Utah County man here. If I was you, I'd contact the BLM with the full story and share the confidential information with them at least to try to convince them not to remove it. I really feel for the sister, probably her worst nightmare for this story to blow up like it has. Curiosity can be destructive.

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Re: Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

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Post by jasondigitized »

angst_ridden wrote: post #374
nitrogen wrote: post #185

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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.

Try living in Los Angeles. Every other movie has some local detail pretending to be somewhere else. And if you're ever going up the highway east of the Sierra Nevada, be sure to stop in at Lone Pine's film history museum. The Alabama Hills just west of town have been stand-ins for every western state, as well as Mars, Afghanistan, the entire Middle East ... It's disconcerting to be watching a movie and seeing known l…

I believe the reason why movies started getting made in Los Angeles was because of the diversity of terrain within a reasonably short distance.

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Post by acqq »

wrycoder wrote: post #443
andy_ppp wrote: post #385

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I thought there was some convincing evidence of nuclear centrifuges being buried in the head scientists back garden by his genocidal sons? https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig... I mean I quite like this summation by Christopher Hitchens about the Iraq war: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABqrEiuP0I

Read “The Bomb in my Garden” by Obeidi. As I recollect, he buried the plans for a centrifuge and some key parts.

If I read this correctly Obeidi hid that parts from Saddam, not for him, from the article above:

“Had the secret cache been discovered by Saddam’s security elements, Obeidi and his family might have been eliminated.”

And those were the leftovers from dismantling the stuff which was used before 1991, as far as I understand: definitely not a smoking gun, more the old rusty non-functional parts which Saddam didn’t know existed.

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Post by Ataraxy »

ogre_codes wrote: post #160
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…

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.

Considering the post is on /r/geoguesser it's much more likely they're just really good at stuff like this.

Some people are just insane at that game.

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Post by rowanG077 »

Cactus2018 wrote: post #227
rowanG077 wrote: post #217

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You can be convicted for looking at a map where the only thing was tracked is your ip? This is all kinds of insane. No wonder the US incarcerates so many innocent people.

2001 Expedia map https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/11/us/internet-used-to-find-... > The federal complaint says ... the newspaper received a letter that said ''nice sob story,'' with a computer-generated map showing an intersection in West Alton in St. Charles County, along with a handwritten X. > ... searchers found human skeletal remains within 50 yards of the location shown by the map's X, about 300 yards from where…

Well there was also a video which showed him killing a woman. So he was only found via looking at a map but not convicted.
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