# Mysterious 2001-like monolith discovered in Utah **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 23, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298 "2020-11-23T21:34:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/102 "2020-12-04T03:16:45Z")
ATTENTION: There is a travel advisory for visitors to the third planet in the Sol system. Reports of theft on this planet are rampant. Travelers are advised to not leave their possessions unattended. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/103 "2020-12-04T03:33:26Z")
Hijinx involving [a popular Bavarian woody](https://apnews.com/article/new-phallus-sculpture-bavaria-mountains-783ca9d7825dd781ccc9bbdafae4d95a) seems to be a fitting addition to the conversation. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/104 "2020-12-04T03:44:57Z")
I really enjoy public art. Really. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/105 "2020-12-04T13:12:09Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Hijinx involving [a popular Bavarian woody](https://apnews.com/article/new-phallus-sculpture-bavaria-mountains-783ca9d7825dd781ccc9bbdafae4d95a) seems to be a fitting addition to the conversation. From the cited article: > [@](#): > > The sculpture toppled over several weeks ago, only to be **erected** again. Last weekend it vanished entirely, with only a pile of sawdust left behind. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/106 "2020-12-04T14:18:40Z")
Probably swallowed by some beaver. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/107 "2020-12-04T15:53:01Z")
The third monolith, near Atascadero, has been [torn down by assholes](https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpjk7/mysterious-monolith-update-racists-destroy-california-monolith-proclaim-christs-superiority-to-space-aliens) who replaced it with a cross. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/108 "2020-12-04T17:21:02Z")
Seen on a bumper sticker near Atascadero: > My imaginary friend can beat up your imaginary friend. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/109 "2020-12-05T18:55:39Z")
No, He can’t. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/110 "2020-12-07T03:23:10Z")
## [Third Monolith Reappears, Fourth and Fifth Monoliths Discovered](https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/20/12/07/0015253/third-monolith-reappears-fourth-and-fifth-monoliths-discovered) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/111 "2020-12-07T15:19:08Z")
My gawd, they’re breeding! Soon we’ll be overrun! ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/112 "2020-12-07T15:40:27Z")
Anybody else remember the movie “The Monolith Monsters”? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/113 "2020-12-07T16:00:15Z")
[Raises hand] > **[The Monolith Monsters](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheMonolithMonsters)** > > The Monolith Monsters is a 1957 B sci-fi movie directed by John Sherwood, which features a pretty unconventional antagonist for said genre. Are the eponymous Monolith Monsters giant lumbering beasts? Aliens? No. They're - quite literally - rocks … One comment though, while it was a B movie and should be a good MST3000 fodder, back in the 50s there were scenes that recalled and were similar to the polio epidemics of the day, (one treatment for the crystals from the monoliths that turned people into stone were iron lungs) it was very scary stuff back then. > - [Nightmare Fuel](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NightmareFuel): The monoliths aren’t viscerally scary, but they’re _absolutely relentless._ It’s surprisingly effective. > - The various scenes in which people being essentially [turned to stone](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakenForGranite) by the space rocks is compared to [the effects of polio](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AFateWorseThanDeath). This might take some explaining, but even as late as the 50’s polio was _scary_ . At best it left you partially paralyzed; at worst, you were [trapped in an iron lung, unable to move, for the rest of your life](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AndIMustScream). To the generation that first saw this film, this was pure undiluted horror. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/114 "2020-12-07T16:04:27Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > My gawd, they’re breeding! Soon we’ll be overrun! Jupiter will turn into a second sun this week. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/115 "2020-12-07T16:07:00Z")
At which point the anti-global warming crowd will immediately issue blanket denials that any of Jupiter’s extra energy streaming into the Earth will (or even could) have any effect on Earthly climate. And even if it does have an effect, it’ll only be beneficial everywhere always. Mark my words; you read it here first! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/116 "2020-12-07T16:20:50Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Anybody else remember the movie “The Monolith Monsters”? Me, too. One of the standouts of 1950s Monster Movie Flicks (along with The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and Kronos) because it was so outside the usual orbit of that limited genre. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/117 "2020-12-07T16:54:30Z")
Sons of Gorignak ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/118 "2020-12-07T23:28:01Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > At which point the anti-global warming crowd will immediately issue blanket denials that any of Jupiter’s extra energy streaming into the Earth will (or even could) have any effect on Earthly climate. Anthropomorphic Jupiter? Has there been secret space colonization I should know about? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/119 "2020-12-08T00:53:49Z")
In the unlikely event you’re not joking and I’m being whoosed, check out the post just above the post of mine that you quoted. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/120 "2020-12-09T05:10:06Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Jupiter will turn into a second sun this week. That would be something wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298/121 "2020-12-09T16:34:52Z")
Full Frontal Nerdity has been playing with the monoliths all week. > **[Full Frontal Nerdity by Aaron Williams](http://ffn.nodwick.com/)** > > Comics about liking all things gaming, technological, mythological, and internetological. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-2001-like-monolith-discovered-in-utah/926298.md?page=7)