Odd obelisk found in Utah????

a reply to: Arbitrageur


I hadnt thought about having it made in place but that would make sense. you could anchor the frame to the rocks using cement nails and then use pop rivets to put on the sides. that way you dont need alot of weight and can make it easy to carry.

Probably ron hubbard's escape capsule.

But seriously, it was the russians

originally posted by: dragonridr
a reply to: Arbitrageur


I hadnt thought about having it made in place but that would make sense. you could anchor the frame to the rocks using cement nails and then use pop rivets to put on the sides. that way you dont need alot of weight and can make it easy to carry.

Apparently it wasn't anchored to the rocks all that well since someone recently pulled it up, apparently put it in the back of a truck and drove off with it:

Utah’s desert obelisk has disappeared

originally posted by: Willtell
www.sltrib.com...

Colorado resident Riccardo Marino told The Salt Lake Tribune that he drove eight hours through the night to get to the obelisk. He said he was 30 minutes from the trailhead at 10:40 p.m. when he saw a truck with a large, rectangular object in the back driving away from the site. He said he finished the trip to the site and found that the obelisk was gone.

“(It was a) very eerie feeling, arriving in the moonlight to nothing there,” he said.

a reply to: Arbitrageur

Yes i just saw that looks like they used epoxy to anchor it to the rocks. So it was built then moved to the location not built in place.

originally posted by: dragonridr
a reply to: Arbitrageur

Yes i just saw that looks like they used epoxy to anchor it to the rocks. So it was built then moved to the location not built in place.

They couldn't have used epoxy to anchor it to the rocks if it was built in place? I still don't know if it was built in place or pre-assembled, I'm not sure how the removal answers that question.

Post error.

originally posted by: tarifa37
So basically the thing was just sitting there in a small shallow cut out area more to get it level and some silicone glue around the base to hold it in place. I would think that guy got more lucky than he thought although the monolith has gone that base piece of metal from it could make good money on eBay with the provenance.

Just saw on the news someone removed it.

It's on private owned land.

Something about. blm being involved.

a reply to: Bloodworth

It wasn't on private land. What the BLM said was, it (the structure) was "private property" and they didn't deal with private property. They were referring to the structure, not the land it sat on.

Since when did it change shape from a square to being triangular? Could have swore when this thread first started, I remember it being square. Oh well the mind is very strange indeed.

a reply to: Cropper

That small metal triangle is all that was left after someone removed the monolith. IDK if that triangle piece was actually part of the original monolith or whomever removed the monolith left the triangle behind.

When this object first hit the news I was intrigued but skeptical ... now looking back at how the media handled this news it is a good example of what to expect whenever a similar "event" will take place. It was a coming in from the cold experience when it became clear that there were rivets used for this planet earth construction.

The artist should have left his business card..

originally posted by: PokeyJoe
a reply to: Cropper

That small metal triangle is all that was left after someone removed the monolith. IDK if that triangle piece was actually part of the original monolith or whomever removed the monolith left the triangle behind.

From this article --->The Guardian it mentions the triangle left behind may have been the top plate.

Since its disappearance, visitors have begun stacking rocks around the site, along with the top piece that was left behind.

Also:

“All that was left in its place was a message written in the dirt that said ‘bye bitch’ with a fresh pee stain right next to it,” Marino posted to instagram. “Someone had just stolen the statue, and we were the first to arrive at the scene”.

What a rude and sad ending.

tarifa37

So basically the thing was just sitting there in a small shallow cut out area more to get it level and some silicone glue around the base to hold it in place. I would think that guy got more lucky than he thought although the monolith has gone that base piece of metal from it could make good money on eBay with the provenance.

At one time i had a 5" cordless circular saw... which would have done the job of cutting a triangle in the rock and chizzle out the shape to be a keyway for the triangle structure to stand erect in...

2 each Co-Ed teams could have backpacked to the site from the trailhead quite easily, slapped it all together in hours, camped out over-night, partied, then left the monument there for-a-limited-time... came back later to disassemble the monolith and leave a 'footprint' for the curious to remark on

One wonders why the Utah authorities even told about this monolith. They had to know in this social media age it would be swamped with visitors.

Now a mysterious Arthur C Clarke-style monolith appears in ROMANIA after unexplained metal vanished from Utah – so who (or what) put it there?

www.dailymail.co.uk...

originally posted by: AndreSpecker
Now a mysterious Arthur C Clarke-style monolith appears in ROMANIA after unexplained metal vanished from Utah – so who (or what) put it there?

www.dailymail.co.uk...

the second one might just be a copy cat but the two actually line up ont he map when you place the two locations on google maps

Here's an article explaining how and why the monolith was removed.

There's also a picture of it on its side and you can see what it was like inside.

'Don't leave trash in the desert'

a reply to: Vasa Croe

Prolly full of democrat voting ballots.

a reply to: Vasa Croe

This is wild!!

So, apparently those Monoliths were an Art campaign marketing joke.

@MNateShyamalan
Triangulated the positions of the monoliths in Utah, California, and Romania. What’s at the center? The bass pro shop pyramid in Memphis, Tennessee.

@MNateShyamalan


7th largest pyramid in the world. The Memphis, TN pyramid existed before the Luxor one and was a basketball arena before a Bass Pro shop... Nicknamed the "Tomb of Doom."

Just another 2020 WTF, right?