no!! this is NOT okay!!!

[FuSoYa]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/03/11/russia.space.ap/index.html


MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Orion, the Big Dipper and Andromeda could be joined in the heavens by ads for soft drinks and cigarettes if a Russian inventor's device catches on.

Alexander Lavrynov, a spacecraft designer, said he has patented a device for putting advertising into space that would be seen from Earth, Interfax news agency reported Wednesday.

"Space commercials could embrace huge areas and a colossal number of consumers," he said. "This would literally be intercontinental coverage."

He said the satellites would be visible in the night sky by employing sunlight reflectors, with multiple satellites linked together to create a message large enough to be seen.

"People would be able to see writing in the skies from the Earth no worse than they see the stars," he said.

 

[minxnim]

holy shit i hope no one ever really allows that. it's so blade runner and gross.

 

[xfer]

seriously i remember when, i think, coca-cola(?) talked about doing this in 1999. they said "imagine a circle the size of the moon permanently hanging in the night sky, flashing the coca-cola logo!" i would seriously donate to a terror group dedicated to building a single missile to shoot that thing out of the sky.

 

[Baliset]

that is an abomination of the highest order.

 

[FuSoYa]

I thought that back when the Miller company had talked about this years ago and it never happened, it was because everyone had agreed how outrageous it was.

 

[Demonspell]

I agree, the idea of turning space into a billboard is disgusting...

 

[xfer]

oh, yeah, it was Miller!

 

[Helm]

How about coca cola flavoured air?

 

[goatschool]

so here's a thought. let's say a 'rogue' nation financed this idea and enabled it.

putting aside top-level/above-govn't corporate-type dealings and whatnot, which i have no comprehension of, and you probably don't, either:

would/could a war or invasion get started over it? i think so.

 

[avi]

ugh

 

[xfer]

you mean the way tard nations whore out their countries' postage stamps for dead American celebrities and peddle them on informercials in the states?

 

[Danolich]

holy shit i hope no one ever really allows that. it's so blade runner and gross.

Blade Runner is EXACTLY what came into my mind when reading that first post.

 

[FuSoYa]

goatschool: would/could a war or invasion get started over it? i think so.

I would participate.

 

[goatschool]

i think it would start a planetary corporate war that would eventually drag nations that shared the same hemisphere w/ the orig nation into it

 

[NAD]

That's sickening.

i would seriously donate to a terror group dedicated to building a single missile to shoot that thing out of the sky.

Count me in too.

 

[capeda]

HAHAHAHAAHAHAAHhsdjhsjhds#!@@! People are amazing!

 

[minxnim]

i would build a rocket to blast those things out of the sky most def.

 

[TheNewChupe]