<story><title>Metal Monolith in Utah Gone</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/us/monolith-utah-disappeared.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skoskie</author><text>And it would be silly to assume a species capable of interplanetary space travel would not use rivets.</text></item><item><author>sp332</author><text>It would be silly to transport a solid chunk of metal through interplanetary space when some sheet metal would do the job.</text></item><item><author>plutonorm</author><text>From some of the images I see it has rivets holding the panels on. Any glimmer of hope that this time it &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; aliens has been dashed. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.instagram.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;CIBf7YuALr3&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.instagram.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;CIBf7YuALr3&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thamer</author><text>The spokesman for the Utah Department of Public Safety specifically mentioned that the monolith was put together &amp;quot;with human-made rivets&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;How he knows the difference between human-made rivets and other types of rivets was not explained.</text></comment>
<story><title>Metal Monolith in Utah Gone</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/us/monolith-utah-disappeared.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skoskie</author><text>And it would be silly to assume a species capable of interplanetary space travel would not use rivets.</text></item><item><author>sp332</author><text>It would be silly to transport a solid chunk of metal through interplanetary space when some sheet metal would do the job.</text></item><item><author>plutonorm</author><text>From some of the images I see it has rivets holding the panels on. Any glimmer of hope that this time it &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; aliens has been dashed. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.instagram.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;CIBf7YuALr3&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.instagram.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;CIBf7YuALr3&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jspash</author><text>Maybe the aliens ARE the rivets! And we&amp;#x27;ve been looking at the wrong thing all along. We&amp;#x27;ve got to think outside the prismatic box.</text></comment>