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posted by takyon on Saturday January 19 2019, @03:39PM   Printer-friendly
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Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/glowing-space-billboards-could-light-up-the-night-sky-in-2020/

Look up at the night sky in 2020 and you might see an ad for McDonald's floating among the stars. A startup is planning to use a constellation of tiny satellites to create glowing ads. The satellites would light up different messages for up to six minutes at a time at about 250 miles above Earth.

Also at Futurism.

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  • (Score: 2) by srobert on Saturday January 19 2019, @06:20PM (1 child)

    by srobert (4803) on Saturday January 19 2019, @06:20PM (#788718)

    Imagine living in a rural area where the only light on a moonless night is from the lightning bugs and a million stars. Now imagine an ad for erectile dysfunction pills in the midst of that sky. Oh, hell no!

    There are limits to how much light pollution people will tolerate. I live in Las Vegas. We tolerate more of it than just about any place. Back in the 90's one of the hotel-casinos decided to fire a giant green laser onto the mountains to the west of the Las Vegas valley as part of their advertising light show. I saw it piercing through the dust in the night sky each evening from the strip where I worked. I imagined the desert dwellers west of town must be pretty miffed about a green beam cutting through the rural night sky every night. Eventually, pilots filed an FAA complaint that brought it to an end.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Farkus888 on Saturday January 19 2019, @07:08PM

    by Farkus888 (5159) on Saturday January 19 2019, @07:08PM (#788734)

    I'd wager a fair amount the people who had this idea are from New York or LA and wouldn't be caught dead in actual nature. The kind of people write movies where every person who lives somewhere else is a deformed monster waiting for a chance to rape and murder and kind innocent city people who wander by.