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Monolith Reappears In Middle Of Lake
Orion2o6 writes: "According to an article on the King 5 (NBC Affiliate based in Seattle) Web site, the Monolith reminiscent of '2001: A Space Odyssey' that had originally showed up in a Seattle-area park on New Years Day was spotted in the center island of a small lake in the city of Seattle. The TV station had received an e-mail early on Thursday morning which clued them in to this location. The monolith is now in violation of the bird sanctuary that exists there."
350 pounds is considerably enough to break SOMETHING, at least.
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the first time someone told me that there was a troll under the fremont bridge I thought she was pulling my leg
:>)
Heheheh. The first time I showed someone the Troll, we were having an escalating Slug Bug war (which in Fremont and Wallingford, is kind of insane... you get bruises that don't heal after you've been playing for two days).
Needless to say, I got major kudos for that particular slug bug when she saw the troll.
Coming soon - pyrogyra
This reminds me of the story of the stolen garden gnome that went on a trip around the world, and photos of it (in front of the pyramids, etc) were sent to the gnome's original owner.
If you think this is bad, wait until lots of small monoliths start appearing on the island, the ghost of dead birds start appearing and you have to spend half an hour convincing your outboard motor to take you away from the island.
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"Would you like me to sing you a bird song, Dave?"
"Yes, HAL, that would be very nice."
"Devo, Devo, play me your music, do.
I'm half crazy, over all the bird poo.
It won't be that monstrous light rail,
We wish we had the monorail.
But you'll look sweet, homeless on the street,
with a Monolith built for two
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"Hello, Professor Gates, I'm ready for my bug fix now
Will in Seattle
Naeser's Law:
That's the best part about this whole thing. It's not just that the monolith is moving, it's that a bored news media in a slow week has nothing better to report than this. Apparently, if you want your cool prank to make the news, do it the week after New Years.
Clipped from the bottom of the article in the helpful hint section
"Green Lake has had problems with unclean water. Call ahead (684-0780) for the goose poo-poo index before diving in"
Hell, I used to have to worry about not swimming right after I ate, now this???
Here in Seattle, we love our art. The best art IMHO is the art that the people love and interact with. Often, the "authorities" are clueless and the artists are smart. Great art.
You should see our troll, and wait for the Fremont bus (it passes within a block of the center of the universe, so why should we be suprised about a silly black monolith lounging around?)
We tried to use BSD, but every time we did that it turned red from embarassment.
So it uses Linux to run the prime webserver, using high-speed radio Net connections.
Some of the Canada geese complained of the radiation, but after it was pointed out that this was the point of the Monolith, they settled down quietly to hatch their new and improved offspring.
--- Will in Seattle - What are you doing to fight the War?
Confluence and Monolith -- what a great way to start the year.
I really think we need more mystery in our lives -- remember how great crop circles were before they were exposed as frauds. Or Blair Witch? Where's that SETI accelerator hoax we we need it?
sigh
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Wooden armaments to battle your imaginary foes!
Would you mind going up there and throwing bones? You never know what might materialize. Of course, you're just as likely to go off killing jaguars...
Quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
Anything said in Latin, sounds profound.
A point of clarification: Duck Island is not an officially-designated bird sanctuary, only an unofficial one, so technically no trespass laws were violated, and thus the perps cannot be prosecuted for putting it there. The object is clearly visible from the lake shore and at this time of year, it is relatively unlikely scores of people are going to haul rowboats, canoes or kayaks down to Green Lake just to travel the short distance out to the island for a closer look. My guess is that the object will remain until the next opportunity for transport, when it will mysteriously disappear, only to reappear in another location. CHRIS COMTE
"Courage is the price that life exact for granting peace. The soul that knows it not knows no escape from little thin
^0^
DCMonkey
Here in Seattle, we love our art. The best art IMHO is the art that the people love and interact with. Often, the "authorities" are clueless and the artists are smart. Great art.
/. are known to penalize that which they do not understand, for they have not yet been illuminated and cannot understand the Meaning of the Monolith.
You should see our troll, and wait for the Fremont bus (it passes within a block of the center of the universe, so why should we be suprised about a silly black monolith lounging around?)
Be careful telling them the mysteries of the Fremont Troll and the Signs That One Has Entered The Center of the Universe. Those who moderate on
And let not us reveal the presence of the Great God Lenin, he who wears the Santa Hat, as he faces to the West in Fremont. For this would cause them to be afeared, and they are not yet one with the Universe.
That said, I'm kind of peeved, cause I had planned a copycat hack, but once Spike told me that the mysteries were more involved, my plans for the Rose Garden on Jan. 20th were deferred.
--- Will in Seattle - What are you doing to fight the War?
mmmm, chicken... agggrrrr
If you think this is bad, wait until lots of small monoliths start appearing on the island, the ghost of dead birds start appearing and you have to spend half an hour convincing your outboard motor to take you away from the island.
Salocin.com
Judging from the fact that the monolith appears on various locations and checks on various life forms, it must be on the first part of its mission. If it succeeds, we may see intelligent life on this planet in a few million years.
In Murphy We Turst
Ok, so the monolith violates the bird sanctuary... No big deal, I'm sure that the birds have violated the monolith by now anyway.
-MattT *** Not speaking for my employer, or any other sentient beings ***
Man, it's like people in this country don't know how to read anymore. "Caleb Schaber, a 27-year-old Ballard artist, said a group of about 15 people, members of a loosely organized group called "Some People," planned the monolith's appearance at Magnuson Park on New Year's Eve, but had nothing to do with its disappearance Wednesday morning and relocation to Green Lake." "Placing it there involved a number of steps, carried out over two days. On Saturday, they mixed the concrete in a wheelbarrow, poured it into a rectangular hole near the top of the grassy hill and set four hollow tubes in the concrete. The 350-pound monolith, which was built with four pieces of rebar protruding from its base, was brought to the site the next evening, Schaber said, and the rebar was set inside the tubes with epoxy." It's not 1000 pounds, and there's no longer any mystery.
There's some stuff here. Haven't checked the quality/OS requirements.
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..that it was Excalibur that appeared in the middle of a lake, not Monoliths!
Donte Alistair Anderson Roberts - hi son!
Karma: Chameleon
Err...the last one. I'm can't be a karma-whore anymore because I'm over 50 and trolling is gay. The problem here, is that people take everything too seriously. Relax, guy -- look over there.
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Wooden armaments to battle your imaginary foes!
Do no harm.
There's a reason bird sanctuaries are off limits to casual idiots. Granted this time of year there aren't going to be nesting birds, but unless the people who did this are bird experts they have no idea whether they were doing any damage.
Other reasons why I think this stinks: you don't mess with somebody else's hack. You don't repeat somebody else's hack either. Be creative.
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Isn't it obvious being in Seattle?
MicroSoft is now directly massaging our brains
with subliminal technology in monoliths with the
messages:
"Buy Windows 2K",
"Bill Gates is good",
"Anti-trust is bad",
etc.
Unless they put some roots under the thing, it's too easy for some punk to topple. That would probably be bad if somebody was on the other side.
If they rooted it safely in the park, I'd be all for it. As it is, I'm just hoping that nobody ends up arrested or dead over this stunt.
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Shit, the last thing we want is for the birds to peck the thing or land on it. Hasn't anyone see Hitchcock's movies?! The last thing we need is a pack of IQ-enhanced birds flying about raising havoc!
;-)
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To me this definitely seems to be the way to go - no more city art funded by taxes. Instead, we get art created and installed for free by nearly anonymous individuals/groups (okay, it costs them money, but that's up to them)
All the better if it is a bit quirky or whimsical - provokes thought and conversation.
Frog51
That the shadowy figures behind the industrial-military complex are finally deciding that America needs to be prepared for when They come amongst us openly. This has been their plan all along, and the increased public awareness of the potiental of a visit from Them and the increasing amount of science-"fiction" coming out of Hollywood are all part of their plan to make sure that when the time comes, we all know what we need to do about Them.
Remember folks, it may all sound like paranoia, but a paranoid is just someone who hasn't been gotten to yet. The time is almost here for when They arrive to claim their dues.
Cool! We should soon have one marking every degree confluence :)
This Island is for the birds alone.
Place no Monoliths here. . . .
(g,d, & rlh)
Oh No! You've just proved that late night alien visitors are responsible for all of those Outlook Trojans! We're all doomed! AaaAAaaGgggGGhhHHHHhh!11!!!1!
I read the internet for the articles.
Its not officially anything except an island in the middle of the lake they want people to stay off. And since its not officially a bird sanctuary they aren't technically doing anything illegal (no more than putting it anywhere else in a park).
Lisa
Do you really think that it will stay there? I suspect that it will disappear again shortly and re-appear soon after in a new and exciting location. I would love to see this thing get a lot of travel and appear all over the world, fueled by our imaginations and the fun of it all.
So............if you're near it, help it travel.
"Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality." -- Dalai Lama
It's full of stars!
I have discovered a truly marvelous sig, unfortunately the sig limit is too small to contain i
reminds me of the simpsons episode with the winged skeleton statue.
in the end it was a publicity stunt for a new mall...
The difference between Theory and Practice is greater in Practice than in Theory.
Remembers me of that we have this new movie "chickenrun" out. Is it a coincidence?
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Yeah yeah, sounds just like the government talking here. "Nice monolith, but uh, your in a bird sanctuary! $4000 fine please!"
"My God.... it's full of stars... Oh. No, wait... No, it's just bird poop."
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my other post is +5 insightful
...with weapons, then I'll worry about it...
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Sci-Fi Storm
Now this is going a little too far. The first time, in the park, was funny. The monolith probably would have been left alone by city officials - a tourist attraction. Now, they're going to investigate, remove (the monolith) and maybe prosecute the trespassers. If it is on a bird sanctuary it will HAVE to be removed, because SOMEONE is going to go see it.
Now what's going to happen to the monolith? The mystique is gone. Some dumb shits ruined it for everyone.
(Or, maybe the monolith has chosen chickens as the next enlightened species... :)
"Pinky, you've left the lens cap of your mind on again." - P&TB
"I can see my house from here!" - ST:
The monolith was created by a group called "Some People". You can find out a litthe more about the group and the monolith here.
I'm looking for a HEPA media filter for my TV. I'm alergic to reality shows.
It's very appropriate for the Monolith to appear on Seattle. After all, in the movies it always appeared where no intelligent life was to be found.
(8-DCS)
Once you finish handling this "violation of bird sanctuary" issue, you need to look into the sparrow problem. I have an inside source that tells me that there's a gang of sparrows who flew in from Oregon and are picking on the other birds at the lake.
-p4
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... who thinks they should be arrested for disturbing a wild-life sacntuary?
If they want to save humanity they better start with our environment. Lossof a liveable biopshere is probably the single bigegst threat to modern man.
I thought that it was a garden gnome?
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Or has it happened more than once?
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
The House Between - Original Sci-Fi Series
...2001 dvd perhaps?