The year 2020 was full of extraordinary
events. Outbreak of COVID-19 changed our lives- thousands of
dead, economic recession and massive lockdown defined the whole year. If a massive pandemic wasn’t enough, our world literally caught on fire, with
hectares of American and Australian forests being burned to ashes. Moreover, society faced big political movements, including Black Lives Matter or fight
for women's rights. With so many breakthrough events
happening at once it was so hard to keep track of all events that many people
didn’t hear about one of the most extraordinary news of our decade- in April of 2020 the
Pentagon has officially released videos of "unidentified
aerial phenomena", the same conforming existence of aliens. This brings us to more recent
event- in November mysterious silver monolith was discovered in the Utah desert
just to disappear few days later. The monolith was
reported to be a 3 meter tall, triangular prism and was made from metal-like
material. The object looked more like an
artistic installation than scientific machine, however, no one claimed
responsibility for the sculpture. Since the first appearance of the famous Utah monolith, more
monoliths were reported internationally, including one in Warsaw near the Świętokrzyski
bridge. Few of the monoliths were
intentionally built for promotional purposes,
but the origin of most of them remains a mystery. Some people speculate that the
appearance of enigmatic structures is strongly
connected to extraterrestrial life and alien invasion.
11.1. In your opinion, what is the source and purpose of these mysterious monoliths?
2. 2.What emotions do these monoliths evoke in you?
2. 3. Do you belive that Aliens exist?
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Sources:
Utah
monolith: The mysterious silver monolith in the desert has disappeared - CNN
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Mysterious
monolith in US desert reportedly disappears | Life | Malay Mail
List of 2020 monoliths - Wikipedia
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From what I've heard the one that is located in Warsaw, near the river was an artisitic installation, the author of it made itself public. So I assume the same can be said above the other ones, if we hovewer were to assume it was placed there by aliens it could be some kind of sendor researching earth and passing the data somewhere to outer space.
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They're pretty I didn't have a chance to see one in person so it might make a bigger impression on me then the one I got from pictures only.
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I believe that there is life outside of earth in the cosmos, and sure they might visit or take a look from far away how's life on earth (we are quite noisy, and radio and tv wawes travel wast distances in cosmic space). I don't believe however most of the stories of so called alien encounters or sightings, they seem fake to me, and with everyone carrying a great camera in their smartphone we should get far better quality of footage of ufos if it was real.
I also have heard a lot about this magic monolith in the Utah desert. Another mysterious metal monoliths appeared in Romania and California. I used to think that it could be either some forgotten movie decoration or somebodies prank. The Utah desert is a popular place among filmmakers. There were filmed Indiana Jones and A Space Odyssey.
But a few days ago I noticed news about artists group who takes credit for mysterious Utah monolith. The community calls The Most Famous Artist.
2.What emotions do these monoliths evoke in you?
Honestly, monoliths do not evoke any emotions in me. I consider myself a realist, and I did not think that it was something made by aliens.
3. Do you believe that Aliens exist?
I believe that there are planets in the universe where life in some way exists. Nobody knows if they are enough sensible and intelligent. Moreover, it is a big question about how to communicate with them, because aliens can use smells or biological signals we can not understand.
I was thinking about it and realized that I don`t want they will find us first. Cause it will mean that aliens have more powerful technology and can easily destroy us.
2. Monoliths like monoliths. These are normal sculptures that a human can make and I don't think they are extraterrestrials. So they don't evoke any emotions in me.
3. I think there is some extraterrestrial life in a distant galaxy, but we cannot discover it, because we do not have sufficiently developed technology and knowledge about the cosmos. I think it will be several years before we discover something.
There are many who pump fake stories and then mass media aggregators make it big.
Honestly, I expected nothing less of CNN...
On the other hand, they indeed look mysterious to me.
I believe that such style is brave and thought-provoking.
By any means, I am not an expert in architecture, but I am sure such constructs would fit in our school's lecture hall.
I think that it is possible that Aliens exist.
There are many claims that intelligent forms of life have already been contacted.
The thing is, reports are countless and people present believable proofs.
But in the end, most is proven to be fake.
I fear that due to accessible AI we will experience new wave of fake news.
2. The only emotions that these monoliths arouse in me are emptiness, triviality and simplicity. I don't know what could be interesting about a piece of metal that isn't even pretty.
3. Yes, I believe there is extraterrestrial life. It is hard to imagine the infinity of our galaxy. Following this lead, it can be concluded that the aliens exist, but are somewhere very far away. So far, no contact has been made with them, but let's be positive :).
Several self-proclaimed Reddit specialists have decided to analyze monoliths and non-monoliths from around the world. There are not too many common features between them and the differences in construction preclude them from being made by the same or even somehow connected people.
2. The monolith itself in the Utah desert is visually pleasing. Pictures from this place are like frames from the Stanley Kubrick's movie. Unfortunately, how people behave around these events make me cringe. They are trying to duplicate this effect by locally building similar structures and causing a similar stir. I hope these are just a pranks or sociological experiments.
3. There is nothing to believe. Our visible universe is made up of 3 x 10^23 stars. This is an unimaginable number for a human. Many planets may orbit each of these stars. The calculus of probability suggests that with this number of potential planets there is a chance of not one alien civilization, but 36, and its 36 only in the milky way galaxy itself.
As Arthur C. Clarke said, “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
Mathematically, the chances that we are not alone are much much greater, I'll stick to that.
1. In your opinion, what is the source and purpose of these mysterious monoliths?
I’ve got a few thoughts. First of all, they appear mostly in highly developed countries. I think it may be some artistic performance? Nowadays with the Internet and the speed of information spreading it's possible to make it. It might be something similar to Banksy. You can spot Banksy-like graffiti in every city nowadays because people are copying it. We are just more used to see paintings on the wall than minimalistic monoliths.
2. What emotions do these monoliths evoke in you?
They seem to be quite terrifying. They started to appear in 2020 (which wasn’t our lucky year at all… but 2021 is weird as well..). Also, the Internet hoax wasn’t helping me to think reasonably about it.
3. Do you believe that Aliens exist?
No, I have never believed in such things…
I was following this topic a bit, and the real answer is (not my opinion) that it was a artistic performance, and it was confirmed. Even without that information it was easy to state after closely looking at the provided pictures. All the metal plates were connected together with rivets, and that is not some sophisticated technology, the quality of build was also not to impressive.
Unfortunately almost no emotions. At the beginning I was a bit curious, but later on when I discovered how they were probably prepared I stopped following this topic.
In my opinion they not exist.
2. Funny emotions.
3. I don't believe in aliens. I am a man of a science and according to science it's never aliens. Until it is. I believe in incredible math behind the probability of spawning life in the form as we know it. And with all the odds it seems like we are the aliens to this world.
I didn't follow the news about monoliths so it's interesting to hear that the one in Warsaw was an artistic installation. Theory about monoliths being used as sendor resarching earth is also really fascinating, but what kind of data would it collect?
If those monoliths are really just an art project, then it must be one of the biggest ones Earth has ever seen. Placing metal monoliths all around the globe, even in places that are hard to reach is quite challenging and pricey. As you pointed out we have no idea how aliens think or communicate. Even if they are more developed than us it doesn't mean that they mean any harm to us. Humans are one of a few species that we know of that make war, hopefully this is one of the things that aliens are different from us.
Maybe these monoliths will inspire PJATK architecture students to make some interesting designs. Fake news is a big problem of modern society, but these monoliths actually exist- news may have exaggerated the meaning behind them.
If pseudo activists are the ones behind monoliths what kind of message would they try to pass? Placing metal statues all around the world can't be cheap, do you think such operation would be profitable in any way?
Thank you for your first-handed report about Varsovian monolith! The Reddit article you mentioned has some interesting observations I haven't heard before. These insights debunk theories monoliths being made by aliens or single organisation. Even though these structures are proven to be nothing more than a hoax, I still find them extremely interesting as it shows what people are capable of doing for any form of sensation. If these numbers are real then there is a big chance that we are not alone in our universe. Hopefully we will get to see scientific evidence of life outside of our planet.
I also felt unease when I first red about these monoliths. I was surprised I haven't heard about them before, and suddenly I found a whole Wikipedia article with a list of their appearance. After finding more evidence proving that these monoliths are just a hoax, I felt kind of disappointed- they lost their interesting value for me.
2. I like them. It is an interesting phenomenon even if this is just a big commercial. Imagine, you can have an unskippable add in your game or youtube video that makes you angry or have some mysterious sculptures placed around the globe. That is awesome! makes people talk. Not revoking any aggression, just attention. Nicely played. Also, they are very aesthetically pleasing, futuristic and minimalist, what's not to like?
3. Well... there is some form of life in the universe for sure, however round spaceships with green people inside stilling cows? Nope.
My opinion is that these monoliths are just a prank, we shouldn't take it seriously.
2. What emotions do these monoliths evoke in you?
None really, they just look weird, that's all.
3. Do you belive that Aliens exist?
I think that Aliens do exist. Our universe is infinite, and there's a high probability that humans are not alone. But I also think that Aliens are not technologically advanced, so I don't believe in UFO's, and I don't take those monoliths seriously.
I haven't heard about that, but that sounds interesting! If it really is marketing strategy, then their marketing director should get a raise. Your propositions would change the way we view commercials- I think people would wait eagerly for new campaigns. Maybe even they would turn into real art?
2. I think mainly curiosity or smile, due to the fact that many people associate it with unreal things, and as I wrote earlier, it was probably after some movie or something else.
3. Yes, I think the world is so big that there are aliens somewhere far from us, but I wouldn't be sure if they are more technologically advanced than us. Maybe they're just developing humans and look like Neanderthals. The question is also who we define alien, human or an ordinary living fish. However, I do not think that we have direct contact with aliens and that they are visiting us
I want to see it on my own but I don't have enough time to look around to find some monoliths. I don't think that will be fake photos or something like that but this is it that you don't see everyday. It's interesting.
It's very hard question. In my opinion somewhere in our world must be some kind of creatures that are intelligent but maybe we are exception? And only us are one of a kind. Or there will be more creepy scenario that everyone in space are quiet because something want destroy all kind of life on entire world?
2. Feels like someone was to lazy to find a litter bin and monoliths were left just in the middle of nowhere. I can’t say that they are ugly, but they do seem unfriendly and scary.
3. I believe that we are not lonely in the Universe, but I don’t think that contact with alternative forms of life would be a great idea. It would be disaster, as it’s truly something unimaginable and simply dangerous.