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I promise you I felt a bit of nausea as I read that post. I could never ever imagine anything worse advertising or American wise. Sorry to say that but you have to admit that it does have United States of America written all over it- Looking up and seeing a pepsi logo. Imagine how terrible that would be, looking up and saying "well that's where the Southern Cross used to be but we can onl... read more.
I can't believe anyone would want to do something like that. I never even thought about it. I guess I'm taking my nice big sky forgranted. I really hope that something does get passed to prevent this from happening. But even if it does in one country, what'll be there to stop the next.
This will probably become a bigger issue in the future, I just hope that people all decide against it. It's bad enough that the sky is harder to see at night because of all the lights in the city, but now this... I don't know. I just know I don't like it. As for buying it, I'd more rather avoid it. I wouldn't want to help a company who does that sort of thing.
that would be a nice thing for companies but i don't think its a good idea. It will be like driving distractions maybe. iono. I think the only advertising should be from the government making warning messages or some kind of alert thingy. just informational stuff.
QUOTE(iwuvcookies @ May 20 2005, 07:31 PM) that would be a nice thing for companies but i don't think its a good idea. It will be like driving distractions maybe. iono. I think the only advertising should be from the government making warning messages or some kind of alert thingy. just informational stuff.  Okay, so if it was used only for warning messages, or some kind of alert system, that would be a different story, because it could save lives. And if it was like the bat signal to do this, it wouldn't have to be up there all the time, just when something is really important. Still that asks the question of when to draw the line. What makes one cause more important that another. I don't know now how I feel about it. I would still be four-square against it for advertising purposes, but if it could be helping to save people in danger or something that could be different.
Yeah, actually I never really thought about it, but you could definitely use the technology as a public message system for warnings and such, but it would only be useful at night. I think we already change enough of our environment... we don't really need to destroy the night sky.
You cant put adverts in the sky, I mean someone would first have to own the sky and thats just silly, anyway I doubt that would have much affect on people anyway, I mean I know i wouldn't be a product just because I saw an ad in the sky, but saying that I dont pay much attention to conventional ads, so thats probably just a personal thing. One thing I think would be quite cool was if instead of ads it was something important like news bulletins or something like that.
Imagine - our calendars could display the lunar, solar AND NIKE eclipses! Great idea!
I hope this never happens. I would be so angry, and would boycott any company that committed such an atrocity against nature. The sad thing is that somewhere out there some suit at the top of a corporation probably gets aroused at the thought of this idea.
At first i thought you meant billboards for spaceships but hey, sure it's pretty lame. In holland there aren't really too many billboards but i thik that's for the safety of the driver on the road? But, i think space billboards would have to be prety damn big if you wanted to project something you could read. I think it'd be better as a sort of alarm system like, alien invasion, or 'nuclear war stay indoors'. But hey, that is the future this is now, let's focus on having a nice dinner.
QUOTE(twentyinches631 @ May 20 2005, 11:08 PM) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/20/space_billboard_ban/ I think it would be really sad if one day you look up into the sky and see an advertisement projecting like the "bat signal". Hopefully this will never happen. People are insane that they would want to do that. Is money reallly that important? Would you even buy a product just because you saw it in the sky? omg just when i think they did it all.. Latest Entries
I promise you I felt a bit of nausea as I read that post. I could never ever imagine anything worse advertising or American wise. Sorry to say that but you have to admit that it does have United States of America written all over it- Looking up and seeing a pepsi logo. Imagine how terrible that would be, looking up and saying "well that's where the Southern Cross used to be but we can only see it from between four am and six am due to that large Coca Cola sign. It would be absolutely awful and should definately be illegal for a number of reasons. One of my reasons would be that the fact that it blatently invades the privacy of the average human being. If you want to just relax you should not be allowed to be bombarded by advertising, something that is already done to us with the irritating phone calls wanting you to get a subscription to some magazine that already has a ridiculous circulation. But with that at least you could argue that you have the option of not purchasing or using a phone, as it is a commercial service and upon the purchase and service use of the phone you receive what is seems to be a compulsory "benefit"- telephone advertising. But when it comes to looking at the sky we have absolutely no option, it's there, whether we like it or not. No matter where we go, or what we do, if we're outside(or even in a building) and look up, or out the window and seeing a pepsi advertisment is a blatent invasion of privacy. In a world where we have already, and continue, to screw up so much can't we at least leave some things pure- because at the rate we're going, it seems pretty much as if sooner or later advertising company's will be teaching birds jingles- it sounds pretty overboard and extreme, but I would never have guessed that people were even contemplating overrunning the sky and I personally don't think it will be allowed to happen, at least I hope!
Would it really be worth it for the companies? If I was CEO of Coka Cola, or McDonalds, I would rather spend the money it would take to put one billboard in space on one thousand billboards on the road.
We've already made a mess of our planet, and now its going to reach out to space too. I'm glad that its the US government that is the first to oppose advertising in space, because they have a lot of influence in the grand scheme of things.
This would obviously be a very expensive form of advertising, and you wouldn't be able to see it on a cloudy day...
Only the richest companies would be able to afford it, and of course, if the advertising works they would gain a monopoly so all small businesses who couldn't advertise like this would go bust. 
I think this is a crazy idea. I am a comsumer and i don't want to look at the sky most of the time to find out what products are available at the atores. hehehe Looking up at those big billboards is already pretty tiring for me, what more for those advertisements on the sky.
The first problem to solve on this kind ob "billboards" is how to stop the lights/projector from beaming all the way to the space. I guess most people, find products on the internet nowadays, and they are busy doing everything on internet at night time. so there would probably less market for those advertisments. people living on Cities woul not see those billboards as well because they would be obstructed by hihg rise buildings, and yes, air pollution. QUOTE(twentyinches631 @ May 30 2005, 07:30 PM) I'm pretty sure theres no possible way for them to be stationary, and even if there was it wouldn't matter because the earth is rotating so they would have to match that speed, which is crazy. actually there are satelites in space doing this very thing right now so I'm pretty sure that is not much of an obstacle 
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