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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: 2) by VLM on Saturday November 28 2020, @05:25PM
I've noticed that people who go out in the wilderness are generally pretty strong supporters of the whole "leave no trace" philosophy, whereas the less likely someone is to go in the wilderness the stronger they'll oppose "leave no trace".
Unless its a corporation leaving the traces and then the urbanites flip flop and go hard core "leave no trace"
So support for the monolith seems to be controlled by who did it. If its a lone nut or a small team the urbanites will strongly support it, or if its whomever owns the rights to 2001 trying to generate publicity for some kind of 4K directors cut re-re-re-release of the 4K blueray DVD or similar then the urbanites will hate it.
Ironically AFAIK the BLM and NPS and similar are vaguely chill about art installations and the like as long as they're coordinated first; you know a zillion idiots are going to have to get rescued as they try to visit this thing, and god knows how much environmental destruction they'll cause. If they had coordinated with the park rangers first and gotten everything permitted, they could have found a nice safe semi-accessible place and gotten on maps and official support and all that.