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These pranksters are getting ready for 2021... not 2001

Or are they early?

The sequel novels to 2001 are 2010: Odyssey 2, 2061: Odyssey 3 & 3001: The Final Odyssey

What's missing here is '2020: Odyssey 2.196', huh?

Dunno, but this is beginning to seem a lot like Krull , only without the nasty aliens. Yet.

I think this is more like the garden gnome going missing, then for the next few years you get post cards from it taken next to various landmarks all over the world, followed by the obligatory Daily Sport headline "Mysterious metal monolith found on moon!" in a few weeks.

I always knew they were evil, but seems they have developed a new way of advertising. Just wait until these things start to rust and turn yellow and all weill be revealed.

If your waiting for aluminium to die of rust then you might be waiting a long time. (aluminium to human intents and purposes doesn't decay unless exposed to sea water; an unlikely event in the desert locations these have been sighted in)

Article: "The rectangle was said to be made of stainless steel..."

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No further comment?

OK, I'll do it then.

If YOU'RE waiting for aluminium to die of rust...

...... I don't think I've ever seen Aluminium. But I do see Aluminium Oxide all over the place.

This is because as soon as Aluminium is exposed to normal air Oxygen will bond to it producing a layer of Aluminium Oxide across the new surface. So unless you cut your Aluminium in an oxygen free environment all you ever see is 'pre-rusted' Aluminium.

Aluminium doesn't rust. Apart from the fact that aluminium oxidizes, as rust specifically refers to iron oxide, while iron oxide is detrimental to the structure of iron, alimunium oxide is actually protective. So it isn't rust, either technically or morally.

Having seen what was left of a fume hood after finely divided aluminium that was cut in an oxygen-free atmosphere subsequently came into contact with air, I can confidently assert that aluminium very definitely does react with air given half a chance.

I'm reliably informed that it will quite happily continue to burn underwater, once started.

Tell that to a stoichiometric mixture of aluminium and iron oxide.

edit - "aluminium dying of rust" is pretty much a perfect description of the thermite reaction...

Thermite Welding is used for Continuous Welded Rails...

[1]https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thermite+welding+rails

[1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thermite+welding+rails

Aluminiun is fine in seawater, one reason why boats are built out of it.

You do have to be careful with other metals in close proximity though, otherwise a large battery results with consequent electrolytic action.

You do have to be careful with other metals in close proximity though, otherwise a large battery results with consequent electrolytic action

Yes, hence its use as a sacrificial anode on big steel ships and oil rigs.

And if you want to see how well it reacts with oxygen, look at the exhaust of a space shuttle solid rocket booster. It gets a bit toasty...

A wooden statue that was surreptitiously um… erected, I guess?, in the alps has gone missing as well.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55142062

A local brewery has dedicated “a tangy, natural red beer” to the erection...

[1]https://www.allgaeuer-zeitung.de/allgaeu/bernardi-br%C3%A4u-rettenberger-brauerei-huldigt-holzpenis-am-gr%C3%BCnten-mit-neuem-bier_arid-251613

[2]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/01/german-police-investigate-after-giant-phallic-monument-vanishes

[1] https://www.allgaeuer-zeitung.de/allgaeu/bernardi-br%C3%A4u-rettenberger-brauerei-huldigt-holzpenis-am-gr%C3%BCnten-mit-neuem-bier_arid-251613

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/01/german-police-investigate-after-giant-phallic-monument-vanishes

you can stop.

yes.

Crop circles need too many people to stamp out in these covid times.

this one was covered in curly squiggles – clearly an ineffable and extraterrestrial script.

Black Speech from Mordor?

> Black Speech

That's racist.

On the other hand "Mordor speech of African descent" could be considered derogatory (Mordor being the bad guys), so better ban those books altogether.

/s

They are clearly the source of Covid-19.

I thought it was the source of the Illuminati mind control that is going to be propagated via the 5G network.

Uh...or something.

I thought it was the source of the Illuminati mind control that is going to be propagated via the 5G network.

I think people are confusing cause & effect. First propagate a virii. Then mutate via propagated radio waves, creating a memetic virii. Then use those radio waves to program the infected. Then use senior infected carriers to implement policies beneficial to the memetic virus. Then, as the saying goes, "The virus makes work for idle hands".

This is all obvious when you think about it. Programming infected people to make crop circles was just a beta test. The crop circles can be seen from space, but have a low information content, and programming subjects to create QRC (QR Crop) codes was complex and unreliable. But this alpha test proved that spreading via communications was possible, and indeed desireable.

So enter COVID, or Communications-Optimised Viral Information Distribution. An elegant method of combining ancient and modern, utilising quatenary code along side binary to make programming 'go viral'. Richard Dawkins discovered this, but was then persuaded to keep quiet about meme infection, but as always, once a meme is in the wild, it's hard to supress completely. But you can see plenty of evidence of the infected trying to supress this via 'social media' labelling truths as 'fake news'.

But again the purpose is obvious, as the results are showing. As the virus spreads, so do the 'monoliths'. As more are discovered, so will their networking function, and simply 'connecting the dots' will show they're placed at 'natural' convergence points around the globe. This fact is also 'checked' by dismissing the idea of ley lines, which is also evidence of the efforts being directed at supressing the truth.

But the introduction of 5G will increase the data available to the memetic virii, and thus hosts. This will both accelerate the process of 'monoliths'. These are obviously antenna, and with millions of 4W hosts transferring power via the ley lines to the antenna, will be powerful enough to beam signals into deep space, summoning our new overlords.

Hmm, rivets. Hand riveter fits in a rucksack, rivets can be swiftly drilled out within one battery charge of a portable 18v drill for dismantling. The stainless steel sides could be rolled up for transport, possibly within a large rucksack, and then riveted to internal frame. Internal frame simple to assemble and erect / dismantle and stow away.

The thickness of stainless to choose would depend on how flat you can rivet thin stuff against the frame, versus how tightly you want to roll up the sheets (and carry weight).

Possibly whole shebang could be carried by one person. Erection is sort of job that would be easier with two people, but doable by one person. Visiting remote spots is safer if done by more than one person (should, eg, an ankle be broken in area of no cell phone coverage).

"Erection is sort of job that would be easier with two people"

I certainly find that to be the case yes.

Or a lot harder ...

The shoddy installation of this monolith is proof that the Aliens are also susceptible to Covid 9. They had to social distance while digging it in, so with only one working at a time they were unable to make a proper job of it.

In fact, I don't think the virus arose in animals at all. It is extra-terrestrial in origin and somebody picked it up during an alien encounter.

[Anon as I don't want to be abducted to Area 51 during the Covid crisis]

"Aliens are also susceptible to Covid 9."

Is that the unnecessary prequel?

It's the new stone stacking. Yippee.

(Trolls turn to stone, don't they?)

There's a difference?

It disappeared from Utah and showed up in California. That sounds like a marketing gimmick, although for who, I have no idea.

But in Romania also ?

That sounds like meme to me. A bit of an expensive one, but meme nonetheless.

It also made a brief appearance at Foour Seasons Total Landscaping!

https://twitter.com/lartist/status/1333871359399763971

I suspect it may be the work of the Once and Future Band, with their spaceship antics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_7zRTnBaJg

TIA.

One day you have just one plinth, soon you'll have a whole clump of plinths.

Crop circles all over again?

I guess some people don't have anything important to do but still want to get public attention. And no, you don't need to be identified to be considered "important" these days - it's commonly become an introverted thing of smirking to oneself in isolation about how clever one's been.

Would it be too much to ask that when the next one is sighted, a police officer could be posted to watch it? If both then vanish it's aliens, otherwise some prankster will be helping police with their inquiries...

Especially those carrying towels and small yellow fish.