2001: A Space Odyssey

Yeah, I love it... I don’t think anyone in that section of the movie says what they’re “really thinking.”

Floyd is pretty much a figure of fun, in a covert sense - arriving importantly to exert the illusion of control. I think only for Kubrick though, Clarke seems to write him as a capable fixer.

Seemed like they were still a lot closer to Earth than Jupiter.

Interesting!

Strange metal monolith found in Utah desert

I saw that! At first I thought it was a prank. I also saw that it's apparently been there and been noted for a few years, iirc.

I don’t think it’s been noted before; it’s just that they couldn’t tell how long it’s been there (could be decades).

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

Yes. It is. And damned egotistical, too.

...the department said in an extremely measured, unnervingly calm, vaguely Canadian-sounding voice.

that would be a neat twist if it was just some arty farty piece, but installed by ALIENS!

Instellar vandalism

aliens who were Kubrick fans

they couldn’t tell how long it’s been there

The location has been pinpointed from either image metadata or reverse image search, and it's only present in satellite passes since late 2015. So it's definitely not by John McCracken (d. 2011).

Other pictures show it's sheet metal held together with pop-rivets, not a solid block.

(Although I guess aliens could've also developed pop-rivets)

It's the next evolutionary stage of a Toynbee tile.

Conspiracy dingbats already co-opted the story ffs.

https://www.disclose.tv/t/what-is-this-thing-why-is-it-being-covered-up/8896?fbclid=IwAR0zC7KBNvdHubOZ0DnFJ0YsI1pkRp-e1zbYyv97W4COXH5InQxqk1zJ6Cc

ARG game for the next Boards Of Canada album.

I thought exactly the same thing

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You forgot the "?"

less than two days for youtube clout chasers to sit on top of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U63zicCAQIk

Not gonna give them the click, but that sucks. The Utah parks people said don’t do that, the area is remote and isolated, etc.

they flew in on a helicopter as that's their thing.
btw
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/arts/design/john-mccracken-utah-monolith.html

they released the mccracken.

but what about the alien mindbenders?

Impressive reference.

omg it's actually on Steam

and discounted at 60% off. so under a couple of quid

Someone has now removed it

“Someone”

?

Whichever federal agency manages that land sure as shit needed to remove it, especially after those helicopter cowboys showed up on that youtube that forks linked, above.

The agency says they didn’t. Maybe they’re lying, but they’re the ones who announced its existence to the public in the first place.

http://i.imgur.com/9pYVabH.png

Simplest explanation is that the aforementioned cowboys, or others like them, made off with it.

good riddance

this was cool as an idea but the internet kinda ruins everything.

Simplest explanation is that the aforementioned space cowboys, or others like them, made off with it.

The fuck’s your problem?

huh?

Space cowboys? More like some JOKERS.

Oh, I get it. Apologies I flew off the handle, should have read more carefully.

gangsters of love iirc

of what do you speak?

The pompatus of love?

or perhaps Maurice

A (shoddy-looking) copycat effort has surfaced in Romania.

Angry mob of locals

https://boingboing.net/2020/11/30/utah-monolith-was-removed-and-broken-down-by-annoyed-locals.html

(After trying so smash it with bone, obv)

it was probably an alien disc that had many cures for many diseases n we DISTROYED IT?