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Monolith Appears In Seattle
LordXarph writes: "AP reports that on new year's day 2001, a 6 foot tall monolith has appeared in seattle. If Monolith Software weren't based in Seattle, I would be worried." Anyone have pictures of this thing? It makes me want to hum Particle Man by They Might Be Giants. Oh wait- Wrong song.Update: 01/03 04:39 AM by H :Check out the picture that a number of people sent in.
cool. whomever you were.
......It's full of stars!
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
and did anybody look inside?
John
An instrument of evolution in the birthplace of M$ and grunge music. We're doomed.
According to Yahoo! (the link in the article), the monolith is 9 ft tall...just nitpicking...:)
How Jaded Are You?
A link to our local paper with the picture of the thing:
e ct s/SeattleTimes.woa/wa/gotoArticle?zsection_id=2684 66359&text_only=0&slug=mono02m&document_id=1342575 98
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/WebObj
6 feet with a dumb look ? Must be Bill Gates...
..:: Molotov's cocktail is a Russian blowjob
Here's a picture of the monolith in the Seattle Times.
The link again. Click that for the picture.
... it's the first year of the new Millenium.
Next year there'll be two, the next, three, the next, four, and so on.
By the end of the Millenium, we'll have Monoliths across America, and God will reach down and start the biggest domino effect in the history of the world!
This is the right link:e ct s/SeattleTimes.woa/wa/gotoArticle?zsection_id=2684 66359&text_only=0&slug=mono02m&document_id=1342575 98
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/WebObj
How Jaded Are You?
Of course maybe a higher power is trying to "encourage" Microsoft to evolve into a higher lifeform (open source of course)
"To travel the paths of human imagination you have to be willing to unlearn all you know"
A *six foot* tall monolith. I could pull a bigger monolith out of my butt.
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Are the proportions one by four by nine? I hope to see it tonight and measure it.
Don't blame me, I voted for Durga.
It's not like the size was hard to estimate in Kubrick's film...It was certainly bigger than 6 feet tall.
And if it had a big Space Fetus...that would make me more impressed, too.
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Not as impressive as I had hoped.
This is not the way to build a lasting empire.
But does it have the 1x4x9 proportions?
Baz
How could someone write a news story about this and not include a picture???
"And like that
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I'm sorry Dave...
The correct answer is:
The Monolith Got Me High
Thanks for playing! =)
It's funny that the TMBG add is up top now too! =) TTFN.
-PipTigger
According to both the AP story and the Seattle Times one, the monolith is 9 feet tall, not 6 as slashdot reports.
Insert irritated comment about the factual quality of slashdot stories and the corresponding decline of western civilization.
--sam
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Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
If there is a Communist conspiracy to take out M$, then I will gladly be a Communist.
Kierthos
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
You know what's inside...
It's full of stars!
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
I suspect that the folk behind the SpeakEasy cafe are behind this;
I walked by the cafe with my girlfriend on New Years [wanting to visit the staff], and they noted that they were closed for New Years Eve and New Years. It said, "Come see us at the Monolith Party!", or something like that.
They're crazy, interesting, and rich enough to pull off something like this. I'd say: Quite possibly (likely?) it was them..!
The monolith in the book wasn't black. It was transparent almost to the point of being invisible.
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The "theme song from 2001" is "Also Sprach Zarathustra", by Richard Strauss.
Sigh.
Seattle Times gives dimesions as: "roughly nine feet tall and several feet wide" However a crude estimate of the image suggests that indeed the dimesions are 1x4x9 feet.
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Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
That's one short man in the photo if it's only six feet tall.
Didn't see whether the other axes were FOUR feet by ONE foot, but it looks plausible.
(In Clarke and Kubrick's films, as well as Clarke's books, the monoliths' measurements were in the ratio of 1 : 4 : 9, the squares of the first three positive integers, presumably as a sign that the creator was aware of the universality of mathematics as a way of communicating between evolved species.)
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Here's a pic from Yahoo! even...
And the `holes' would be?
"...but several plastic bottle-cap rings littered the ground, suggesting it was thirsty work for whoever installed it."
this is mysteriously similar to the findings of cigarette butts on the floor of a bar after closing. Hmmm.
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The new commercial for Ford:
full story
Ridiculopaths R us
Ummm, there was already a link to a pic on Yahoo. Different from the Seattle Times, BTW.
Click the "Photos" link above the article, and scroll down a couple pics.
Or, if you want a direct link, click this (no, it's not that damn goat thing).
-- CP
Didn't they find the monolith in 1999 on the moon (i assume before the moon was blown out of earth's orbit by that massive nuclear waste explosion) in the movie? apparently, someone was just too lazy to pay attention to details. I mean come on, we've know how to get stuff to the moon since the late sixties. nobody puts in any effort these days.
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Seattle has one of the most progressive government programs I've ever heard: they decree that 1% of the annual budget must be spent on public art. Statues, murals, sculptures of all sorts, everywhere you go. It's really pretty cool to have real art that's not hidden away. (Even if one or two particular pieces don't tickle your fancy.)
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Is it 9ft tall, but is 3' of it underground? perhaps that is what keeps it from falling over and squashing the little child in the photo... not that that wouldn't be cool... but still.
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A monolith appears, and here we are, with not one computer virus dangerous enough that we have to keep it on a secret vault on the moon. Honestly, the worst virus we have now simply delete a few files, corrupts some Jpegs, or maybe emails itself to others. How are we going to stop this monolith when it tries to blow us all up without an ultra-dangerous virus?
Oh well, we're lucky in one regard: it appeared in Seattle. If any new viruses are developed capable of taking out the monolith, chances are they'll have something to do with software out of Redmond.
I can't be the real deal if its proportional dimensions aren't perfect squares(1x4x9). Anyone actually take the measurements of the thing?
Seriously, this is pretty cool move on who ever did this(especially if it was God or ET). They obviously like A Clarke's work.
Check out where CNN filed the story. While its not exactly your normal technology sotry given enought time it might be.
They knew we weren't going to find the one on the moon any time soon, so they sent this one to help us along.
We do see evolution today, that's part of how we know about it. If you want to start from the idea that you're going to prove the existence of God from your belief in God, you're already too screwed up in the logic department to be taken seriously. Read some real biology, why don't you? Try the National Council for Science Education -- not whatever idiot medieval superstition you happen to buy into. And of course "descendage" isn't a word. How on earth do you expect to be taken seriously if you can barely write your own language?
It's 9' tall I believe... not 6' as stated above...
Asking the Slashdot crowd if they have any pictures? Why not just make slashdot.org redirect to goatse.cx?
here's the collection of yahoo pics of the monolith.
On January 24 Datacloud will introduce JANNA. And you'll see why 2001 won't be like '2001'.
ok then your [sic] infringing on my copyright! Could you as [sic] me next time before STEALING my comments for your own?
I wish people would realize that it's not JUST the "theme from 2001," it's a piece of music called "Also Sprach Zarathrusta" by Richard Strauss.
This project has been ongoing for months in the Seattle area. On New Year's Eve, a parade/protest/whatever was organized from Capitol Hill in Seattle (the "Bohemian" Neighborhood) up and down its main street and then into downtown Seattle. The parade was in support of the monolith that was going to be emplaced at an unknown location. We were supposed to have a wooden faux monolith with us but the cops confiscated it. The real monolith was put into place while this was going on.
... until it tips over onto someone.
Don't blame me, I voted for Durga.
Australopithecines(sp?), Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Neanderthals. There's no line of descendage, but there is a line of ancestry! And there have been many fossils! You've never heard of Lucy? Or do you think she was planted in Africa by satan?
My joke got modded as Insightful and my insight got modded as Funny.
It's just an unfinished Domino peice.
:)
(or it will be soon after a geek gets
their hands on some black n white paint)
It's only a matter of time
Other tricks to do... glue a monkey toy to the top, make it output funny noises randomly, etc.
Jan 12 is HAL's birthday!
PS: None of the monoliths in the movie were 1:4:9 because they didn't look right on camera.
Pope
Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength! Monopolies offer Choice!
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Man did not evolve from monkeys. Both man and monkeys evolved from a common ancestor, something like a three-toed tree sloth, IIRC.
I went to this local show for new years, and the lead singer of this one band, who is always dressing weird, dressed like the monolith from 2001 and played the whole show like that. To make this clear, he jumped around on stage for about an hour in a cardboard box painted black! Just thought someone might find that useless piece of information interesting.
-NG
WWJD -- What Would Jimi Do?
WWJD -- What Would Jimi Do?
(Smash amp, burn guitar, take home the groupies)
wtf?
Seattle isn't that far from Sri Lanka?!?!
Have you ever actually SEEN a map of the world?
Sri Lanka is nearly half way round the globe from Seattle!!!
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People should not be afraid of their governments - Governments should be afraid of their people.
ALL THESE CITIES ARE YOURS EXCEPT SEATTLE USE THEM TOGETHER USE THEM IN PEACE Obviously the monolith knew about the WTO riots :)
The end of high prices!
;)
Seriously, does this remind anyone of a Simpsons episode?
Well, I just walked down with my trusty tape measure (can see the hill from my office building) and the official size:
1.0ft x 4.0ft x 8.5+ft
My ruler goes to 1/16 inches and it was accurate to that level---don't have micrometers to examine further. It was buried slightly at an angle, so I couldn't determine the height.It's oriented N/S, but with the sun at its current height there's at least one "sunrise over monolith" place to stand.
I would have dug it up to determine the height, but there was a crowd there, mostly dog-walkers. I got involved with a conversation with Fido and Rex about the trival 12th-dimensional spacetime rotation required to unify...oh, that's right, you haven't touched it yet.
Seattlites are so provincial. They have a talent for priding themselves on very unremarkable things with an earnestness and arrogance previously reserved for the French.
You call that tin can propped in the midst of that cow pasture a monolith? Come visit me in New York City sometime. I'll show you some monoliths.
Guess what, one race IS superior to another.
However, it depends on conditions. And that is made almost moot with all the advances that man had made.
For example, mister caucasian. Go spend some time in subsaharan Africa. Good chance you'll be toast. Now try it with AC and sunblock.
Now, if you mean morally superior, not a chance.
I'm an idiot. A promotion for an ISP. Whatever. It's not really the point.
Given a reasonably level playing field, who would win a fight between a bear and a shark?
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/ap/20010102/us/mono lith_mystery.html
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ENJOY!!
Movie News - "Entertainment news, bitch!"
"SEATTLE (AP) - A 9-foot-tall steel monolith mysteriously appeared in a city park, just in time for 2001." One after another with the mistakes, how bout we start reading the links before we accepted these articles cmdrtaco?
maybe a commercial for MicroSoft should sound like this:
"My god... It's full of bugs!"
Voice Over: "Yes, and they are copyrighted too"
-- "If A equals success, then the formula is A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Einstein
--Cost of steel and welding supplies: $1,245.
--Cost of labour on New Years Eve: $724
--Cost of having an entire city gape blankly at a hunk of steel, without a bone in sight: priceless.
Returned Peace Corps IT Volunteer
Actually, just so you know, a more diverse spece is more likely to survive a devistating disaster.
A "pure" spece would be extremely prone to plague and genetic diseases (like how hemophilia was so common in inbreeding royal families).
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the quote "If monolith software weren't based in seattel, I would be worried" came from Taiki. I included it because if it didn't have a somewhat witty comment, it would not have been posted. -Lx?
I thought people would like it. Thank the Anarchists.
Thank you for being the ninth person to restate this fact.
If you are going to post, please read what has already been said.
- Ando
I knew I was going to screw something up, glad I'm not with NASA.
Oh wait, they can't measure either.
My bad.
My guess is, someone decides to turn Jupiter into a sun, just for kicks.
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I didn't bother to look around to see if anyone else had posted one, but there's a pic of it on one of the local news sites. Here.
Hey! I have an idea! West Seattle has some sculptures as you drive into it, and they're people walking on logs, aptly name "Walking on logs." They dress them up.....Mayyyyybe...Dress the monolith up? Particle man....
One has to wonder...I have yet to see a mpeg of a bunch of geeks in ape suits tossing bones around this thing.
In a more geeky locale, I bet we would have pics of such an event by now.
What? No costume shops in Seattle? Or just no geeks?
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the monolith sits on top of where nasdaq was buried. my stocks are all govindaa govindaa!
As an employee of Speakeasy, I can safely say that the monolith was not a promotion item, nor is Speakeasy affiliated with the monolith or its appearance. A number of us did attend a certain parade/public revelry/gathering that was to have a wooden monolith replica burnt in effigy at its culmination. Hence the sign.
1 million monkeys logged onto their 1 million computers to compose 1 million comments about the article.
1 is generally not considered prime because it only has one factor.
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Oh, bother.
The classical piece is called Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. check here
Anybody want a peanut?
you idiots this is 2001, we use the metric system now!
MonoLith and I don't mean ML.ORG
Actually, that's "..Zarathustra" and not "...Zarathrusta". :)
"sweet dreams are made of this..."
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Mad Scientists with too much time on thier hands
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"lith" is latin for stone.
We know it's made of stainless steel, not stone therefore it's not a monolith.
Which begs the question - who assembled it? IIRC, welding stainless steel requires some special equipment - TIG welder, instead of your typical arc welder or oxy-aceteline setup. Okay, I guess you can pick up a TIG welder at Ace hardware. . .
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
I appeal to you moderators, to stop the fiasco of redundancy. Whoever gave this a
(2, Insightful)
is going straight to hell after they're finished their measley existence here.
- Ando
Hmmmm, maybe it's a promotion for Monolith Software's Lithtech engine, since the only thing it can render without crashing is a big untextured block.
Given a reasonably level playing field, who would win a fight between a bear and a shark?
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You sure got a purty mouth...
Wouldn't an advanced alien species measures things in meters? Or have they not converted over yet, either?
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It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
Ok, it was me. I was hoping it would fall on somebody, but we glued it in too tightly.. bah humbug
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Oh well. I wonder if the monolith has a ratio of 1x4x9..
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Mololith Software is based out of Bellevue, Washington...a reasonably distant suburb of Seattle. I should know, I work for the company that sells them their workstations and various parts. :)
(www.computerstop.com, for those of you who doubt)
int break_spirit()
{
crush_nutz(left_nut,right_nut);
return(1);
};
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Bellevue is a concocted strip mall full of souless yuppie scumbags in oversized SUVs sipping lattes and yacking on celphones.
If you work there, I pity you. If you live there, I hate you.
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You sure got a purty mouth...
um, I was pretty much worried about the 4 and 9.
I was part of the march before and part of the party after words. I'm sure it was Members of the Infernal Noise Brigade(former !Tchkung! members) and local Anarchists who setup the Monolith, they where keeping it secret for fear of being busted by the police. I heard they police and confiscated it, but it's nice to here that they got it up.
Monkey Wrencher
Thanks
- Ando
I wouldn't be surprised if this was local engineering students pulling this off---if so, it would be in the tradition of the finest hackers as started by MIT.
Coding is not a crime.
What if it fell over and crushed someone? Who would I sue?
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20010102 /capt.monolith_mystery_egp.jpg
Thats a good pic!
In case of Emergency, Curl up in the Fetal position, and lick a Bible for comfort!
anyone remember monolith burger from Space Quest 3?
And who is "we?" Are you representing the ./ community or the various entities that reside in your alleged mind?
bwahahaha... rancor and divisiveness generate hits!
I'd love to see what your girlfriend's hoo-haa looks like. Oh, I forgot, you don't have one.
domc
Has anybody bothered to check if it's magnetic or not? Sounds like it's made of steel, so it's possible-- but I'm curious to see how far they went.
http://www.ihoz.com/lith/
/me notices glaring similarities between AP article at yahoo! (http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010102/us/monol ith_mystery_1.html) and Seattle Times article (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/WebObjec ts/SeattleTimes.woa/wa/gotoArticle?zsection_id=268 466359&text_only=0&slug=mono02m&document_id=134257 598). Now, why again did they bother to teach us the evils of plaigarism in middle school when it is clearly practiced in the real world? Of course, I could be wrong and Mr. Higgins is just an AP writer in addition to his job in Seattle and he chose to hack apart his story and take a second cut at it to make a more terse version better suited to the AP's qualities. Then again... who knows?
I'm sure he was :o)
"Tui Nati vulnerati."
Allegedly slowly.
We don't even know if evolution goes fast or slow.
I'm inclined to believe it's more usual for it to go in spurts.
e.g. when the females and males suddenly decide that "hey that looks sexy/cool/good" things can change quite rapidly.
Cheerio,
Link.
Anyway, Deface the Nation, a public access news show which lampoons the media has been promoting this since the anniversary of WTO/N30. Great show if you're in the area. The soundman for their DTN was driving around with a mock monolith on his car until the police stopped him and then tried to confiscate his hammer.
We need a bit more humor in this city again. It's getting a little too serious. So cheers to all involved.
"I have a cunning plan..."
Please honor the picket line.
I am not a lawyer.
it's some lame MS marketing ploy. People may not be able to see it, but the dogs can tell.
That would sort of imply that the species in question had ten fingers or tentacles or dicks or whatever
I would hate to be plundered and raped by such a species.
Table-ized A.I.
How's this? ;-)
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
it would just imply it had FEET ... (as opposed to meters ...)
Still not enough? Then how come you still believe in gravity? After all,
Even if you accept the circumlocutory explanation that the Bible isn't saying that the sun orbits the earth, but that its position is just relative to the earth, the fact still remains that the Bible claims that the sun stopped. This is not possible. If that were true, then without the centripetal force acting on the sun (or on Earth), they would have crashed into each other. Clearly, they did not. If your faith in the absolute literal truth in the Bible is insufficient to make you not believe in gravity, then how come evolution is different? Both are theories, with a whole lot of supporting evidence. Note that "theory" does not mean "guess" or "hypothesis." A theory is a hypothesis with tons of backup.To digress a little, I noticed that your accusation of an ad hominem argument was directly preceded by an ad hominem argument. Slick there, buddy.
Switch the . and the @ to email me.
1 : 2^2 : 3^3 : ... : (n-2)^2 : (n-1)^2 : n^2
The Monolith apparently doesn't conform to safety codes or something (it wasn't mounted right) and they'll be taking it down.
Meanies.
--- Now, go away 'cuz you all up in my Kool-Aid!
On New Year's Eve, a parade/protest/whatever was organized from Capitol Hill in Seattle (the "Bohemian" Neighborhood) up and down its main street and then into downtown Seattle.
Ahem. Fremont is Seattle's bohemian neighborhood, Capitol Hill is Seattle's gay and alternative neighborhood.
Everyone knows that.
Will in Seattle
OK, geography lesson.
Seattle is on the West Side of Lake Washington.
Mercer Island is in the middle of Lake Washington.
Bellevue and Redmond are on the East Side of Lake Washington.
Just think Seattle = New York and Redmond = Trenton and you'll get the idea. Except it's reversed, since it's the West Coast.
The Monolith is in Seattle. Bill Gates is in Redmond. Oh, ok, that cheesy suburb right off of I-520, but same concept. And, sometimes, just to be nice, we let Bill Gates come to Seattle to pretend he has culture.
Will in Seattle
Certainly a valid opinion, but here's mine. Cities are communities, and taxes go to build all aspects of the community. That means zoning to keep industrial waste more-or-less out of your front yard, fixing potholes, providing parks and recreational areas, and yep, you guessed it, public art. So that's publically funded public art. And if you don't like the 'foo' at 'Baz & Main', then write a letter to your city council. Personally, if you don't like a few surprises in art, I'd rather you just find some other community where you can be a curmudgeon to your heart's content.
Wait, it's not just Monoliths, it's also Monorails that Seattle needs, wants, and desires.
And, we actually have a 2 percent for art requirement in King County. Not just your paltry one percent - two percent.
Will in Seattle
ouldn't an advanced alien species measures things in meters? Or have they not converted over yet, either?
They made it easy for the people who are Microserfs. The rest of the Seattlites can do metric, it's just those wannabes across the lake who can't.
Will in Seattle
There go our plans for world domination.
We figured with Bush as President he'd be clueless as to geometric progression, which would give us enough time to get monoliths in all 51 states.
Will in Seattle
Really. Now that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has settled it's strike, the Seattle Times (which is still on strike) needed to do something to raise it's circulation and page hits, since most of us are only getting the Seattle P-I now.
You'll see Frank out at the Monolith with his shotgun, trying to shoot it, just like he did his neighbors dogs when they wandered onto his property.
Just lift up the Monolith and look for the union label.
Will in Seattle
I hope they find a way to keep it up there. It would be funny if the seattle wireless guys used it as an antenna. Technological advances indeed.
...Due to a patent he holds on monoliths in a 1:4:9 configuration, in conjunction with the number 2000.
Well, as soon as he finds out who to sue, anyway.
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That's nice, but they got the color wrong. The monolith was made out of non-reflective black material. Nobody knew just what that material was, but it certainly was not steel, or looked like steel.
Actually, I'd say that going to a web site run by a union-busting company is a Good Thing. You are using their resources while not contributing a thing back to them.
If ya click on one of their banner ads though, you're gonna burn in Hell.
j.
My GOD! ... It's full of GEEKS!
-- Soruk
In the movie, yeah, its black, non-reflective, yada yada, but in the book its translucent.
If you think you know what the hell is going on you're probably full of shit. -- Robert Anton Wilson
If you think you know what the hell is going on you're probably full of shit. -- Robert Anton Wilson
jdube is who
Capitol.
I am cetain that this will be marked as a troll, but seriously -
How can it be that we are all so interested in determining WHO placed this simple monolith, when we blindly accept that life on earth - far more complex than a monolith - is here by chance?
But Herr Heisenberg, how does the electron know when I'm looking?
I'm suing the aliens for gross negligence. As restitution, I get their flying saucer.
You will notice, however, that the finch is still a finch. It has not "evolved" but merely retained a certain characteristic or variation. Now if the finch turned into a fish and swam away from the island, then I would be impressed.
- You are trolling, therefore you are an asshole.
- Your tired repetition of creationist dogma proves that you, yourself, are sufficiently stupid to be the missing link, and therefore the hole.
Damn, this stupid evolution thread didn't last so long. Why the hell are there so many posts on this story?I also note that you claim there is a clear explanation, but you don't state it. Yeah, you are really scientific. Loser.
Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
Expanding a vast wasteland since 1996.
this ones diffrent
There is no spork.
I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I really wanted was a club sandwich. --Homer J.
I would be more impressed if the monolith were *solid* steel. :-)
But I thought I'd bring up the point that the sun could "stop" from our point of view, if the Earth's rotation halted for some reason. The moon would even appear to have stopped to those not paying close attention to it's position in the sky, as long as the event only lasted a day or two at the most (the moon has an orbital period of about 28 days, or very roughly 13 degrees per day.) There would be no catastrophic effect from any of this unless the rotation of the Earth stopped very suddenly. (Ouch!)
Anyway, you should revise the second part of your argument a bit.
- Xiombarg
Hypocrisy is the Vaseline of social intercourse. -- R. Heinlein
There's a story on Yahoo about the Monolith in Seattle drawing crowds. With quotes from locals.
--- Will in Seattle - What are you doing to fight the War?
Who says that the ratio only had three dimensions to it?
1:4:9:16:... are the correct dimensions..
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It's a sign!
It symbolizes a slow news-day at Slashdot.
I can feel it, can't you?
From an e-mail I just received:
Don't know what to make of this...Yes, it is gone, but here is a story (with video) on local TV channel KOMO 4 about it.
arf arf arf
Will in Seattle
If I understand you correctly, you are willing to consider - at least for the sake of argument - that God can stop the Earth from spinning, but not keep it from colliding with the Sun. If He can do one, He can certainly do the other.
This is supposed to be great art. So why does it look like a bunch of decapitated naked people? -- Calvin
The monolith vanished. Oh well. Then again, the original vanished, too, so maybe, just maybe ... :)
Lemon curry?
story. DOH!
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