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Monolith Found in Utah Desert

posted by Fnord666 on Friday November 27 2020, @11:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-not-saying-it's-aliens dept.

cmdrklarg writes:

Sheep counters find a monolith:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/utah-monolith-what-is-it-trnd/index.html

Some geek on Reddit found it on Google Earth already:

https://www.reddit.com/r/geoguessr/comments/jzw628/help_me_find_this_obelisk_in_remote_utah/

That shining, eerily symmetrical silver monolith found in the Utah desert has everyone screaming "ET." The truth is likely far more terrestrial.

We still don't know who made the tall, metal rectangle or why they stuck it among the red rocks, where it was discovered this week in a helicopter flyover by Utah Department of Public Safety employees (they were counting bighorn sheep).

And though comparisons were quickly drawn to the fictional monoliths of film auteur Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," we can safely say this real-life monolith was not the work of aliens.

Still, it's a fittingly mystifying symbol in a year that's often felt stranger than fiction. And while we may eventually learn more about the artwork's origin, any piece of Kubrick-inspired art should leave some questions unanswered, said I.Q. Hunter, a film scholar and De Montfort University professor.

Also at:
Mysterious metal monolith discovered in rural Utah
Utah monolith: Internet sleuths got there, but its origins are still a mystery
Thanks aristarchus_, Runaway1956

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 27 2020, @11:57PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 27 2020, @11:57PM (#1081779)

    Come for the fun, and stay because the monolith commands it [youtube.com].

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 28 2020, @08:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 28 2020, @08:28AM (#1081832)

    Google Maps shows the monolith's shadow quite clearly:

        https://goo.gl/maps/1wToaCC2yYW1mi8R9 [goo.gl]

  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday November 29 2020, @03:23AM

    by driverless (4770) on Sunday November 29 2020, @03:23AM (#1081976)

    OK look just to end the debate, it was me and my friend Bill. Friday afternoon, no plans for the weekend, the Internet was down so no access to Porbhub, some Bud Light smuggled in from Wyoming, a bit of scrap 316 and some bolts, we headed out there on dirt bikes and had it set up in a few hours with the help of a Stihl TS 800 to get it into the ground. Bill tried shooting at it with his Ruger but he was too pissed off the Bud Light to hit it, probably a good thing.

    Now everyone can get back to arguing over which programming language is the most popular this week.