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space odyssey 2001 monolith / relic site
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Monk Friar Tuck
#1 - 2015-08-27 10:42:08 UTC
CCP - Guys you really made my day. Great idea.
Did i get any award for finding the monolith? ;)

Is theare any reason why you put it into the relic site?

Bravo!

http://picload.org/image/pgdapdd/monolith1.jpg

http://picload.org/image/pgdapdo/monolith2.jpg
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#2 - 2015-08-27 10:46:17 UTC
Its not CCP, they are called Talocans.

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Kyra Lee
Doomheim
#3 - 2015-08-27 23:21:23 UTC
I swear I remember seeing this in a mission too.
Teinyhr
Ourumur
#4 - 2015-08-27 23:30:42 UTC
Like Bagrat said, they are theroized to be stellar maps or something to the Talocan - the guys whose derelict ships you might encounter in Anoikis from time to time. Almost certainly a nod to the Space Odyssey ofc.

There are several in k-space as well, one of the more well known ones is in the Dead End -system near the EVE Gate.
Mark O'Helm
Fam. Zimin von Reizgenschwendt
#5 - 2015-08-27 23:53:34 UTC
https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/The_Black_Monoliths I have found one in Genesis/Dead End.

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DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2015-08-28 11:10:24 UTC  |  Edited by: DeMichael Crimson
Monk Friar Tuck wrote:
CCP - Guys you really made my day. Great idea.
Did i get any award for finding the monolith? ;)

Is theare any reason why you put it into the relic site?

Bravo!

http://picload.org/image/pgdapdd/monolith1.jpg

http://picload.org/image/pgdapdo/monolith2.jpg


Better check your ship computer and make sure everything is OK.


About 6 years ago while on a mission for a Caldari Cosmos Agent, I happened to encounter a 'Black Monolith'. I decided to investigate it and when I got close, it's appearance started to change. All I could say was "My God, it's full of stars".

That's when my ship computer said - "Hello Dave, it's good to be working with you again."

Needless to say, my name isn't Dave so I knew something was wrong. After I gave the order for my ship to return to station for maintenance my ship computer said - "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

In order to gain manual control of my ship, I had to remove the main UUB Nexus Chip and AI circuits from the motherboard in the ship computer. Doing that resulted in the loss of all sensor readings but I did manage to save a visual scan of my encounter with the 'Black Monolith'

Anyway, after that incident I had to do a complete reboot of the ship computer. Since then my ship computer has worked correctly except for one small side effect, it keeps insisting I call it 'HAL'.

Oh well, at least it's not calling me 'Dave' anymore. That's why I said check your ship computer and make sure everything is OK.

By the way, a couple years ago CCP sponsored a 'Sightseeing' contest and one of the various Tourist locations was the 'Dead End Monolith'. That time I kept my distance and managed to get a very good visual scan of it without any incident happening.



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Zappity
New Eden Tank Testing Services
#7 - 2015-08-28 11:17:25 UTC
Very cool. Are they the right ratio? 1 : 4 : 9

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baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#8 - 2015-08-28 11:19:29 UTC
There is also this
Val'Dore
PlanetCorp InterStellar
#9 - 2015-08-28 11:41:41 UTC
Who knew something entirely black could be so low resolution.

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Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#10 - 2015-08-28 20:50:34 UTC
Indeed. If you look closely enough, you'll see that it is simultaneously one pixel and an infinite number of pixels.

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Nicolai Serkanner
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Brave Collective
#11 - 2015-08-28 22:35:51 UTC
... and your name isn't even Dave. You are so lucky!
Jacob Holland
Weyland-Vulcan Industries
#12 - 2015-08-29 15:32:37 UTC
Zappity wrote:
Very cool. Are they the right ratio? 1 : 4 : 9

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