Has anyone seen this Monolith?

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https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/utah-monolith-canyon-210534147.html

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Leave No Trace

[pnichols]

I located and pinned exactly where the monolith used to be on both of my laptop's digital maps - Google Earth and Microsoft Maps. I could probably even pinpoint it on my Garmin navigator unit.

Some of the typical Utah desert dirt/dusty roads come fairly close to it's location. Maybe the last few hundred yards (miles?) would require a 4X4 pickup to haul it into where it was - in what looks like maybe a wide wash with rock formations ringing it. I couldn't be sure using the maximum non-blurred resolution available for both maps.

"Probably in dry weather" our small 2WD MH could get within non-lethal hiking distance of the monolith's location to explore and camp way out there. Some years ago we actually drove our rig to Dubinky Well several miles north of the area. 🙂

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I find generally a ranger's description of any off pavement adventure has always a bit exaggerated in difficulty.

[Old-Biscuit]

Couple of dudes from Flagstaff treked out to see it....but it was GONE!

[pnichols]

vermilye wrote:
For those calculating the weight/value/portability - the monolith was made of riveted sheet metal. Description

That's more like it ... solid any-metal would have been way too much weight to deal with!!

Since they think it was placed there in the 2nd half of 2016, I wonder why it's taken so long to be discovered -> ... it may be because it was in a very remote place, and ... it must have taken a 4X4 truck to get it there in that remote place.

A remote location combined with a truck being able to get there may mean that area is a pretty good place to boondock camp near. I wonder if our small motorhome with it's stock pickup truck type ground clearance could make it there in dry weather? :h and 😉

[vermilye]

For those calculating the weight/value/portability - the monolith was made of riveted sheet metal. Description

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momentum rv wrote:
...and now it's gone! ??

Hmmmm ... if indeed it was stainless steel ... I wish they would publish a video on how they removed it!!! :h

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So much for that point of interest on my next desert expedition 😞

Where will the next one show up?

[profdant139]

Yep. Gone. It's now on Jupiter. (Probably one of Jupiter's moons? That is one of the mysteries surrounding that movie -- they went to Jupiter to re-find the monolith, but Jupiter has a gaseous atmosphere -- no place to land the spacecraft. So was it on a moon??)

[momentum_rv]

...and now it's gone! ??

[pnichols]

Bird Freak wrote:
There was a news story on tv about it recently that said it was made of stainless steel.

Stainless steel = heavvvvyyyy!!! (Not to mention, still VERY EXPENSIVE.)

Here's a clip from my earlier post in this thread:

"Could a 1-ton dually 4X4 PU even carry 486 pounds and 12 onces - plus the crane - plus the backhoe - out there (unnoticed) so as to deal with setting that thing up vertically stable?"

[Bird_Freak]

There was a news story on tv about it recently that said it was made of stainless steel.

[dave54]

A boondocking power pedestal.

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Assuming the above ground is 16" x 16" x 144" gives 36,864 cu-in

Each cu-in is 11.31 troy oz. so close to 417,000 oz.

Troy oz is about $950 so closer to $400 million

That is just the portion above ground....