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[–] [email protected] 139 points 4 months ago (4 children)

In the photos, the tall, geometric figure reflects the rocky desert and perfectly aligns with the horizon.

Ummmmm, that's the photographer that did that. 🙄

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tells you everything you need to know about those "journalists".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

...the department wrote alongside photos of the column. In the photos, the tall, geometric figure reflects the rocky desert and perfectly aligns with the horizon.

Not sure how you would prefer that be phrased? Also, if you can reasonably see the horizon aligned with its reflection, that suggests something to the reader about how it's more or less perpendicular to the ground, rather than slanted (cone/pyramid/etc.).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

It is like writing about how my children happened to be in my picture next to the grand canyon.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You don't? Or write, "the photographer perfectly aligned the horizon with reflections of the rocky dessert."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Rocky road …. Take me home …

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

I think that's covered by, "in the photos."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

The photographer did that because the horizon appears at eye level for every viewer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If the mirrors weren’t perfectly straight up the photographer wouldn’t have been able to do that.

Also it literally says “in the photos” so yeah, what do you expect???

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

It strongly reads to me like the writer is trying to make something mystical/mysterious out of a completely mundane "feature" of mirrors.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I hope whoever is doing this never lets us know who they are.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It won't be one person. There are copycats in there; some of the creators are known in the Wikipedia article I linked to.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Don't ruin this for me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

It was started by an art co-op called "The Most Famous Artists". Sorry...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

the previous ones were the work of the YouTuber "I Did a Thing" https://youtu.be/j-pKKM6CXr0?si=q_My4e95zqEsnnYU

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Oh shit, I thought it was Yea Theory. I don’t believe those Aussies are in America right now too. Odd.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago

An artist freaks out non artists with art

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Monoliths have also been seen internationally in the United Kingdom, Romania, and other locations, adding to the intrigue.

Yeah, I remember reading news stories about this before.

kagis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_similar_to_the_2020_Utah_monolith

Over two hundred similar metal columns have been reported from various locations around the world.[4]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I remember a movie about one being found on the moon.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Very “A Space Odyssey - 2001”

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Las Vegas police have nothing better to do?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

It says Las Vegas desert so its probably law enforcement that operates in that part of the Mojave. Hell it could be San Bernardino Sheriff Department depending on how far out you consider by vegas to be, and yeah outside of the cities the cops have fuck all to do 90% of the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I think wasting their time is the best they an do.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's just an Interstellar 2 ad

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Interstellar II: Gargantua's Revenge

"This time ...It's personal."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Interstellar 2: Relativistic Boogaloo

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yo where do I get the instructions to make one of these? I want to join in.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)
  1. Make Wooden frame.

  2. Glue mirrors to frame.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

fwiw, the article describes it as a "vertical slab of metal". Not a very in-depth article, but I wouldn't expect mirrors to be described as that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I hope nobody tries to touch it in 120° heat...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Surround the thing with solar panels and then you've got yourself an environmentally friendly peice of space debris.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or a neat way to power a deadly laser ray gun

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I Did a Thing at it again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

https://youtu.be/j-pKKM6CXr0?si=JhBceXhUslmIPjEP

Looks like Auntie Donna is up to something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Is this a marker from dead space? Oo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Is that a mirrored surface or an actual crystal like in the book?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Someone knows what are those made from?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Probably paid to report on it for attention.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I mean it would be interesting to know if these are made of some kind of weird material or something, you know, maybe alien stuff..