Big Dipper, Orion, and ah yes, Pepsi...

FlameBlade · Post by **FlameBlade** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:25 am

Adversiting in space

WTF?!?!?! NOT IN MY BACKYARD! Or rather, NOT IN MY SPACE!

Ikarus7 · Post by **Ikarus7** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:09 am

If I ever live to see that, I'll start working on cheap anti-satellite missile.

Spiral · Post by **Spiral** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:37 am

Isn't Pepsi infamous for periodically threatening to project the Pepsi symbol on the face of the moon?

3278 · Post by **3278** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:37 am

I think he means to make it more of a constellation of satellites, each one no brighter than a star. Whatever. I'll be on the other side of them.

FlameBlade · Post by **FlameBlade** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:52 am

I dunno, but I'm a purist when it comes to viewing the space...I want to see constellations as it is, not as an something that gee golly we all know about...

Nightsky · Post by **Nightsky** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:08 am

If I ever live to see that, I'll start working on cheap anti-satellite missile.

I'll begin construction on our launch platform.

Moto42 · Post by **Moto42** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:58 am

We've definantly got the intelligence nessisary for such an endevor somewhere on this forum.

lorg · Post by **lorg** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:52 am

First I thought this was about shooting commercials on the internation space station or something but after reading it I can only say; HELL NO! It will be boycott for life for the company that tried to shove their message down my throat by the midnight sky.

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:16 am

Awesome!

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:22 am

Well, on the pure technology aspect of this, I have to say "Cool! That fricking awesome!". On the application of this technology, I'm kind of leary.

I dunno, but I'm a purist when it comes to viewing the space...I want to see constellations as it is, not as an something that gee golly we all know about...

So..... are you against putting up other satelites, space ships, stations, etc? When you look up in the sky at night alot of the lights you see are satelites, airplanes, cosmic monkeys, etc.

lorg · Post by **lorg** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:46 am

As Moo mentioned this is cool from a technological point of view. But its applications are well lets just say less then wonderful. Would there be any good applications that would benefit from it?

OK it would be really cool to have the job of controlling it and being able to send messages that way. Could be one hell of a marriage proposal if you used that one.

So..... are you against putting up other satelites, space ships, stations, etc? When you look up in the sky at night alot of the lights you see are satelites, airplanes, cosmic monkeys, etc.

Not really the same thing. Seeing one little light of an object and seeing DRINK PEPSI spelled out across the nightsky.

Alareth · Post by **Alareth** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:46 pm

The Russions are determined to take away the night sky.

This isn't as bad as the plan one russian company has to put giant solar reflectors that would visually appear about 1/4 the size of the moon so that Siberia gets more daylight during the year.

3278 · Post by **3278** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:33 pm

Moto42 wrote:We've definantly got the intelligence nessisary for such an endevor somewhere on this forum.

Individually, I would say quite a large number of people here have the ability to accomplish this. <i>Collectively?[/i] Well, I know a couple ways of blowing up cities, and I'm working on destroying the planet. And Marius and FlameBlade are smarter than <i>I</i> am. I don't think a flying billboard would present too much difficulty.
:evil

:plode

Nightsky · Post by **Nightsky** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:40 pm

On that not we also have people crazy enough to push the button.

Bishop · Post by **Bishop** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:44 pm

*jumps up and down* I wanna push the button, I wanna push the button, I wanna push the button!

lordhellion · Post by **lordhellion** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:02 am

Cool. Finally, a technology we can use to make third-world countries actually believe that thier Gods have sent them a message to submit to the mighty American superpower!

FlakJacket · Post by **FlakJacket** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:15 am

Bishop wrote:*jumps up and down* I wanna push the button, I wanna push the button, I wanna push the button!

*Hands Bishop a squeaky rubber tv remote control dog toy.*

Bishop · Post by **Bishop** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 2:45 pm

*pushes the button frantically, causing everybody around him to wince as it squeaks over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.*

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 8:24 pm

Cool. Now my dreams of blotting out the sky and allowing the ascension of machines is nearer yet...

mrmooky · Post by **mrmooky** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 8:57 pm

I honestly don't think it would be a profitable exercise for a company to advertise in such a way. A company doesn't want to come across as ominous and intrusive in its advertisements, and advertising in space will do just that. It would turn many, many people off buying the company's product.

lordhellion · Post by **lordhellion** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 12:15 am

Yeah, but doing something like this as a publicity stunt would deinately cause a raucus with the general consumer public, as much as we'd all like to pretend it didn't. Besides, the real money is in setting a network of reflectors up that can pivot themselves into a visibile or non-visible setting, making the display changeable, then watching as Pepsi, Frito-Lay, Sony, and friends all write monster checks to get thier product put up on the largest changeable billboard in the world. Advertising space is one of the most marketable comododies around, and changing the visual every day or so would keep people from getting fed up with a singular orbital polluter. Hell, I bet night-sky watches would turn into a cultural past-time, just to see what ad is playing on the orbital billboard that night. Take a cue from drive-in movies, get local radio stations syncronized with the display, and you have an entertaining multi-sensory nightly commercial that everyone is going to be talking about around the water cooler the next day.

Man, I need to get into advertising...

Big Dipper, Orion, and ah yes, Pepsi...

Big Dipper, Orion, and ah yes, Pepsi...

Now I want to be your dog.