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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: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 28 2020, @04:55PM (3 children)
From the Wiki article:
That is a rather humorous presumption. I never needed another person to help operate a concrete saw. Or, a sledge hammer and chisels. The only "difficult" part of the job, is carting in the tools, and then the "monolith". That would be pretty easy with an ATV, and a trailer long enough to handle the monolith. You might even get a full sized 4WD or AWD pickup with a lumber rack in there, eliminating the need of a trailer.
Given (relatively) easy access, and nice easy-to-cut sandstone, I think a healthy man working alone could erect this thing in a single day. Note that no one has specified how deeply this monolith is seated into the rock. I presume that the hole was cut less than three feet deep, and it may only be 1 foot deep.
So, no "group" of people required, at all.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday November 28 2020, @05:33PM (2 children)
Urbanites have this weird learned helplessness thing where "it takes a village to build a birdhouse" and all that.
(Score: 3, Touché) by DECbot on Saturday November 28 2020, @08:00PM (1 child)
Close, I'm sure you know the well known saying is, "it takes a village to raise a child." There's also the lesser known saying, "it takes a village to raise a village idiot."
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 30 2020, @05:55AM
It takes a village to remain silent about Catholic sexual abuse of children for decades, if not hundreds of years.