Things are getting weird ...

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wow they really splashed out on the animation for that segment

It's probably where they are hiding all those missing ballots.

The proportions of the Monolith were 1x4x9 - easy to remember

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The start of intelligent life on Earth after all this time and we lived to see it.

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Cool photo. If created by an artist, did he/she use a helicopter to get it there?

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When you look at the video linked in the OP, it looks like the canyon opens up in the other direction (back of the photographer in this shot) and has pretty level ground. Seems possible that it's accessible with offroad vehicles.

If it's hollow inside, it might not be that heavy, so they could Jeep it into the canyon as far as they could, then just carry it the rest of the way [two person job, at most]

Set it up, and sweep away any footprints on the way back

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On the other hand ...



That's a different story

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seems almost sure to be an art thing. I'd like to know what time the shadow lines up with the crack on a solstice.

My bet is on parking meter. Get your reserved parking spot while they're still available!

I got into watching some documentaries on art history a few months ago. IIRC, there was a movement in the 70s to build sculptures out in the middle of nowhere, which the US southwest is good for. The guy hosting it drove to some salt flat where an artist had built big spirals out of rocks.

That’s the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Twilight Zone!

This one? Andy Goldsmith also does some beautiful stuff with rocks and sticks out in the woods. Works on it all day, or days, and then it falls apart.

Maybe. I think it was fairly degraded and was more like just stepping stones remaining at the time the video was shot.

What I find interesting is the way it's fitted into the stone. That stone type is typically very soft but it is a perfect fit so they have to make a square hole for it to fit into. At least I don't see any anchors or anything like that around the base to hold it vertical.

That part of Utah has off road trails all over and lots of slick rock jeep trails where there is no road needed. So certainly feasible to bring it in a vehicle then install.

“It never got weird enough for me.”

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There have been a few instances over the years of people building sculptures out of driftwood and stones along the Hudson River in NYC

https://www.nytimes.com/...-an-unseen-hand.html

https://www.nytimes.com/...region/21artist.html

https://www.atlasobscura.com/...es-new-york-new-york

https://gothamist.com/...ong-the-hudson-river

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if it happens to be a big name i'd guess James Turrell or Walter de Maria. Of course it could be somebody random who's handy with sheet metal and anchors . . . anyway it's fun and i hope they stay anonymous

They don't say if it was solid, but I think it is or they would have mentioned that???

They also said, they don't want to give the location out as it is not easy access and they don't want a bunch of rescues to have to take place from idiots trying to hike out to it. (ok my words, they didn't call people idiots)

Wonder if it is really heavy, and a pointy end could it have been dropped by helicopter, and just imbedded itself?

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I think we need to call in the Mythbusters before the conspiracy theories take off....oh wait.

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It's a C minus world.

From the Wasatch Snow Forecast:
https://mobile.twitter.com/.../1331286427968049152

Someone got lost on the way to Burning Man. : )

What am I missing here?

Someone stuck a piece of metal in the ground.

And?

What kind of metal is it? I’m guessing aluminum.

Cant understand why this story is getting full media saturation.

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"It is illegal to install structures or art without authorisation on federally managed public lands, no matter what planet you're from," the department said.

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solved?

John McCracken put forth as artist behind the Utah monolith . . . he's dead so it's still up in the air

https://www.nytimes.com/...n-utah-monolith.html

his wiki page here

https://en.wikipedia.org/...n_McCracken_(artist)

the internet has found it, combo of google earth and helicopter flight path

https://www.theverge.com/...oogle-earth-tracking

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Eliot
blog thing - strava thing

Going, going, gone
https://edition.cnn.com/...tyle-trnd/index.html

It's in Romania now

https://abcnews.go.com/...=social_twitter_abcn

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From a closer view

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I miss YaHey

one thing is clear:

aliens are as crappy at punctuation as the rest of us

Hopefully, English is NOT their primary language

At least the message isn't in Comic Sans

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