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This Japanese space startup raised $90.2 million to put the first billboard on the moon
iSpace[sic], a Tokyo-based startup company has raised $90 million Series A funding to send a spacecraft into lunar orbit by 2019, and then land a year later after orbiting the Moon. The funding was led by Japan Airlines Co. and Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings Inc. Other investors in the Series A funding included Development Bank of Japan, Konica Minolta, Shimizu, Real Tech Fund, KDDI, Suzuki Motor, SPARX, Dentsu and and Toppan Printing. The investors will also be providing technology and other support to ispace, said Takeshi Hakamada, founder and chief executive of ispace. According to Bloomberg, Ispace plans on offering a "projection mapping service" which will serve as a small billboard on the moon. The company hopes to complete this mission by the year 2020.
It doesn't sound like the billboard is projected from an orbiter, but that it will involve a small display landed on the surface, photographed by the spacecraft:
Ispace[sic] says the initial business opportunity is mostly in marketing, including slapping corporate logos on its spacecrafts and rovers, and delivering images to be used in advertising. A successful landing will also let the company offer what it calls a "projection mapping service" -- a small billboard on the moon's surface. The startup says there will be demand from corporations looking to show off their logos with Earth in the background.
Hack that.
ispace, inc.'s website and its mission plans.
[Ed note: The proper capitalization of the company's name noted on their web site is "ispace, inc."]
Also at Space News and The Space Reporter.
(Score: 0, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Monday December 18 2017, @06:10AM (7 children)
In some of their gardens, they have sand. At my clubs, we have sand traps. Which are always, always neat & tidy. But the Japanese, they take sand to another level. A whole other level where it's totally amazing. They have little rakes, they put rocks in the sand and rake all around. And you're looking at little islands in the ocean. It's rocks and sand, but it's beautiful. Sounds really crazy, you have to see it. Or see a picture. Trust me, it's a beautiful thing. And they could really do a number on the Moon. I'm telling you, they could send up a guy with one of those little rakes. Or send a robot, they are very big on robots. And there would be no more Man in the Moon. You know the Man in the Moon? He'd be gone, it would be Mister Donut on the Moon. Or Mitsubishi.
(Score: 0, Troll) by captain normal on Monday December 18 2017, @06:21AM (6 children)
Maybe you are the real Donald Trump. If so, I'd love to slap a cream pie in your face. Or maybe just bust my knuckles on your nose.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2017, @07:24AM (4 children)
why do you care so much about donald trump fucking the country up when other politicians have been doing it for over a century?
maybe lay off the media hysteria or you might just choke on it
(Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Monday December 18 2017, @08:26AM (2 children)
No one ever asks, why was there the American Revolution. People don't ask that. One reason was very high and unfair taxes. We had a revolution to get away from those taxes. But under my predecessors, taxes got very high again. And very unfair. But now our politicians are working together beautifully. And I don't mean collusion. We're working to repeal a lot of the taxes, we call it the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act. Even Little Marco Rubio and Liddle Bob Corker are on board. And I have my pen. I'm sitting with pen in hand. It's happening, folks. Maybe, probably, this week. Very big week ahead!
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Monday December 18 2017, @06:22PM (1 child)
Actually the American Revolution was more about fighting the trade conditions imposed by the huge monopoly, East India Company. Taxation without representation was a subtext and the actual imposition of a tariff on goods imported by the EIC was the real problem with the people of Boston and the Colonies.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Boston-Tea-Party [britannica.com]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company [wikipedia.org]
If you do not learn from History, you are destined to repeat it.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday December 19 2017, @04:17AM
Don't forget about land. With the King declaring that all his subjects were equal and had equal rights to the land, big land developers were pissed off as they had plans to develop all that land to the east.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2017, @12:08PM
The chief executive of the country gets to appoint people to positions of authority who then can rewrite guidelines as to how agencies enforce or don't enforce the law.
The president also gets to appoint judges who can stay in those positions until they die or they do something so heinous that they are impeached and tossed out.
You may have noticed that the people Trump is appointing are Reactionaries who are opposed to civil liberties and worker rights.
Yes, previous politicians have been bad.
This one was a quantum leap.
Want to see how bad HyperCapitalism/Fascism can get?
Inform yourself about how things are in Indonesia.
Indonesia doesn't even have proper sidewalks. They haven't built any new public infrastructure there since 1966. [dissidentvoice.org]
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(Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Monday December 18 2017, @08:04AM
When I decided to run for President, many foolish people said, "Oh, he's not really running. Oh, it's just a publicity stunt, not a real campaign. Oh, he has no real experience. Oh, he can't really win!" And other foolish things. Believe me, I'm real. I'm very serious. And the people who thought I wasn't, a lot of them were badly disappointed. Because I proved they were wrong. And a lot of them got violent. We have a terrific trial going on, one of our biggest trials, something like 60 very dangerous people from our alt-left. Who rioted during my inauguration. They call it a protest, it wasn't a protest. It was a riot, folks. The likes of which Washington had never seen. And they were all arrested. But we have a lot of bad, or sick, ones still on the loose. Who deny the will of the people. The people who voted OVERWHELMINGLY for Donald J. Trump. Believe me, I get threats all the time. I would be getting threats all the time. If I listened to the phone calls to the White House, I'm sure there would be a lot of threats. Let me tell you, Obama did one thing right. When he shut down that phone line. I have been very active in overturning a number of executive actions by my predecessor. But I'm not about to turn that phone back on!