Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/11/24/metal-monolith-found-in-utah-desert.html
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Sure thing, “Joe Smith,” if that really is your name…
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Needs Apes.
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Daaaaah… Daaaaaah… Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!
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Otoh, a bit small for a metal slab set up by humans as art piece.
eta: image search link
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This is just the first slab to trump’s border wall… till they found out is was deep inside the us border. never rely on apple maps!
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Apes were present…
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I don’t see them getting any smarter though…
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And they fondled it, just like in the movie:
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I’m a little less excited about this since noticing on one of the videos that there appear to be regularly spaced rivets (or some similar fastener) holding the thing together on at least one of the sides. But still one of the weirder stories of the last week of November 2020 so far.
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Love this quote: “There’s this thing back there – we’ve got to go look at it!”
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Didn’t someone put up an actual 1:4:9 ratio monolith somewhere as guerilla art a few years back?
(pause for google)
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As a Dr. Who fan, I approve…
“There’s something here that doesn’t make sense. Let’s go and poke it with a stick."
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Any indications of how deep it was embedded in the ground? (I presume it was, to keep it upright.)
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OK
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Its a bit suspicious, isn’t it? As if he had been waiting for ages for somebody to spot it.
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