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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
(Score: 5, Funny) by takyon on Saturday November 28 2020, @12:59AM (4 children)
But it was Mormons.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 28 2020, @07:59AM
When it comes to batshit-crazy, none can compete with the Saints! I mean, my god, the Book of Morons, dictated out of a scammer looking through a "seer stone" at "gold plates" in a hat? As South Park put it: " Dum, dum, dumb, dumb dumb". When offered a copy of the alleged "Book of Mormon" at a recent performance of the play by the same name, I demurred, replying that I preferred to read religious texts in the original language. Boom!
Well, maybe the Saints can start speaking in Tongues, and with enough linguistic data, resurrect the lost language of the Israelis who took ships to the Americas? Or, their entire theology is fucked. I go for the latter option, and I think the "white horse prophecy" is a drunken supposition of a supposed prophet in way over his head, and the "white salamander" papers may be authentic, but only if they were selling automobile insurance. Religions are like that. Mormons moreso.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 28 2020, @11:45AM (2 children)
You stole that joke from that other site
https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/11/24/207200/utah-helicopter-crew-discovers-mysterious-metal-monolith-deep-in-the-desert#comments [slashdot.org]
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday November 28 2020, @01:12PM (1 child)
Nope, I thought up that obvious joke independently.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 28 2020, @04:35PM
Independent thinking is racissss, and against the rules. Please report to your nearest DNC office for reeducation and alignment.