“...its origin and purpose still a total mystery.”

[Yoused]

Ok, apparently this thing had been around for a several years. Then it fell over but was re-erected, only to disappear leaving only a pile of sawdust. But, fortunately, it was quickly replaced by an even larger member.

New phallus sculpture appears in Bavarian mountains

BERLIN (AP) — Just days after a large phallus sculpture mysteriously disappeared from a Bavarian mountainside, a similar wooden carving has appeared in its place, German news agency dpa reported Thursday.

apnews.com

 

[JayMysteri0]

Out of curiosity, who do we call crazy?

Racists Destroy California Monolith, Proclaim Christ Superior to Aliens

A group of men shouting "Christ is King" and "America First" destroyed a new monolith and replaced it with a wooden cross.

www.vice.com

The new California monolith was torn down overnight by a group of right-wing young men who livestreamed their vandalism in a grainy video posted on the blockchain streaming site DLive.

In the video, a group of three men are seen pushing the statue over and chanting "America First" and "Christ is King." The men, one of whom was wearing a "Make America Great Again" headband, called part of the monolith's construction "gay" then replaced it monolith with a wooden cross. It is a decidedly bleak turn in the ongoing monolith saga that has generally been a delightful distraction for a world wracked by a pandemic.

“Christ is king in this country. We don’t want illegal aliens from Mexico or outer space,” a man in the video says. “So let’s tear this bitch down.”

Throughout the video they mentioning burning crosses and white power.

...And that's why we can't have things.

 

[Alli]

Out of curiosity, who do we call crazy?





...And that's why we can't have things.

This is also why Earth is verboten to any other species. No contact. Not sufficiently advanced.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!

 

[lizkat]

Yeah, about that,

The U.S. probe that collected a sample from an asteroid earlier this week retrieved so much material that a rock is wedged in the container door, allowing rocks to spill back out into space, NASA officials said on Friday.​

Greed is one of the several treacherous transgressions.

Japan's asteroid soil sampler just made safe landing in Australia... don't think it spilled anything.

Japan retrieves asteroid samples in hunt for origins of planets

Japan has retrieved a capsule of asteroid dust from Australia's remote outback after a six-year mission that may help uncover more about the origins of the planets and water, the Asian nation's space agency said on Sunday.

www.reuters.com

The spacecraft, launched from Japan’s Tanegashima space centre in 2014, took four years to reach the asteroid Ryugu before taking a sample and heading back to Earth in November 2019.

Early on Sunday, the capsule lit up as it reentered the earth’s atmosphere and landed in the Woomera restricted area, around 460 kilometres (285 miles) north of Adelaide, where it was found by scientists and brought to a local research station, JAXA said.

Their tweet had a cool picture of re-entry.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1335421246700462080/

 

[leekohler2]

Out of curiosity, who do we call crazy?





...And that's why we can't have things.

These people need to all see shrinks.

 

[Yoused]

Oh, come on, Lee, people need to have their fun. You should know that.

A timeline of all of the monolith appearances and disappearances around the world

The latest one appeared on Christmas Day — and it was made out of gingerbread. Here's all the info on the appearing and disappearing structures.

www.insider.com

 

[Yoused]

The fad continues,

Rätselhafter Monolith nahe Neuschwanstein aufgetaucht

Der Trend zum plötzlichen Auftauchen mysteriöser Metallsäulen scheint ungebrochen: Nun steht auch in Bayern ein solches Objekt – und die Schwangauer Tourismusdirektorin staunt.

www.spiegel.de

in Bavaria.

 

[leekohler2]

Oh, come on, Lee, people need to have their fun. You should know that.

A timeline of all of the monolith appearances and disappearances around the world

The latest one appeared on Christmas Day — and it was made out of gingerbread. Here's all the info on the appearing and disappearing structures.

www.insider.com

I simply don't find anything amusing about racists and religious zealots. Call me crazy.

 

[Eric]

The fad continues,

Rätselhafter Monolith nahe Neuschwanstein aufgetaucht

Der Trend zum plötzlichen Auftauchen mysteriöser Metallsäulen scheint ungebrochen: Nun steht auch in Bayern ein solches Objekt – und die Schwangauer Tourismusdirektorin staunt.

www.spiegel.de

in Bavaria.

I'm thinking der pulling another fast one.

 

[Thomas Veil]

That one appears to be peeling apart at the top and bottom.

Nevertheless and in spite of the fact that they're not as "2001"-ish as they could be, I like the whole phenomenon. Maybe it's because I love the Kubrick film; maybe because it feels like somebody's ironic comment about human evolution (or lack of same).

With regards to the latter, those yokels who tore it down and replaced it with a wooden cross need to get their heads examined.

 

[SuperMatt]

I spotted one in Washington, D.C.

 

[lizkat]

I spotted one in Washington, D.C.

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Who tries to take that one out will learn what Supermax means, i.e. that it doesn't exactly mean "monolith".

 

[Yoused]

Latest one appeared in a San Francisco Park on the 25th of this December. Made of gingerbread, natural causes have already taken their toll – as if someone "left the cake out in the rain".