I hate trash, but love mysterious monoliths. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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I commend these artists for committing to the bit.
Is it only me that, you know, thinks that a helicopter would, sorta, be perfect for, errr…lowering something like that into place…?
no i know, i read about how the guy found out where it is, and about when it was put up. but we still don’t know who put it there or why, so that’s the fun part.
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turns out it’s made of really nice 1/4 inch stainless steel plate, must have cost a bit.
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Has anyone looked at the spot on the opposite side of the Earth?
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It’s wet (almost invariably).
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Here’s the coordinates on Google earth…38°20’35.1"N 109°39’58.3"W
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It’s the next “Christo” or some other such artist who is getting an absolute SHITLOAD of publicity. Enough to make a career, I would imagine.
Sure as shit ain’t a Banksy
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Except they did it 30 years ago, waited patiently all this time, and died in a car crash last year.
Update: rumors suggest I may be on to something.
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I’m so glad someone brought this up. I find it a riveting anthropological problem. Any attempt to mark it will certainly draw the opposite kind of attention that we want, and all attempts at language or symbolism are hopeless over that time span. The answer might be religion, weirdly. If you create a culture that knows to avoid the place for unspecified magical reasons, that might be able to keep people away long enough for them to develop science again and see why the place is verboten.
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Holy shit - sell this to HBO now!
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Ah yes indeed.
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Correction: Utah exists because of the Gullible Loons who believed the bullshit story, etc.
Not to imply that they, themselves weren’t misogynists, etc. as well. It’s probably why they seem to have suceeded.
Just like the rest of the continent.
Everything here was stolen from someone. And those someones probably stole it from someone else, ad infinitum.
‘Six Flags over (whereever)’ gives a time-line, at least after the Gringos showed up.
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It’s highly likely this is not the case. The archaeological and genetic record indicate influxes of humans over land and sea to north America in successive waves over thousands of years. It’s likely no one originally owned the land and therefore no one stole it. And it will be here long after we turn to dust, and even longer than that. So, no one has ever owned it, and our so-called ownership is an illusion that will be over in probably less than a hundred years.
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Not necessarily. Mesolithic humans who settled what’s now called North America would have begotten the first indigenous peoples (though in reality this process took millennia). AFAIK the civilizations for which there remain records were migratory, not expansionist like European and later American colonizers, and didn’t regard their home as property.
When I say it was stolen, I mean their home was stolen, not that the genocidal colonizers took their lunch money. One could certainly argue that’s a failure of language, but in the propertarian language of the colonizers what they did very much was steal the land, which they rationalized by dehumanizing the indigenous peoples and mythologizing their own crimes with “white man’s burden” racist misogynistic bullshit.
It’s fallacious to equate the indigenous peoples with their colonizers.
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Almost invariably, except when the stars are right.
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!
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Could it be a post morten art installation?
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