Space Billboards/Signs

[Jazz]

I watched this video from Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/the-engadget-show-hands-on-with-times-square/2 - and toward the end they discussed something I'd never considered. Billboards in space viewable from Earth or the opposite.

What do you all think? It sounds cool. You could look up in the night sky and instead of the Big Dipper or Gemini see a giant Papa Johns or Taco Bell sign..

http://blog.mises.org/archives/005736.asp#

[SnaFu]

Seems we are already putting too much shit in space. They start doing that then in 50 years we wont be able to see the sun. Ureka! The solution to global warming!

I will take that hummer now....














In the back seat of the Land Rover.

[DougP]

But what's so wrong with space billboards? Why is the default "natural" view of the sky so preferable to a sky with some billboards in it? If the moon naturally, coincidentally had a Pizza Hut logo on it instead of a "man in the moon" face, environmentalists would clamor to preserve it. Why are designs that are an accident of nature so preferable to advertisements which are, after all, designed specifically to please humans so they'll buy things?

Word, my thoughts exactly. :)

[Jazz]

Word, my thoughts exactly. :)

Some people would prefer to enjoy nature's beauty than get suckered into buying a large pizza I guess.

[DougP]

Some people would prefer to enjoy nature's beauty than get suckered into buying a large pizza I guess.

A matter of taste, I'd much rather see a delicious pizza than mountains and streams. :)

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie

Wait.... That's no moon
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b265/bytor94/Moon.jpg

[Jazz]

A matter of taste, I'd much rather see a delicious pizza than mountains and streams. :)

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie



That only happens "in Napoli, when life is key" though... and it's a metaphor:rolleyes::D