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Glowing Space Billboards Could Show Ads in the Night Sky

posted by takyon on Saturday January 19 2019, @03:39PM   Printer-friendly
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"MrPlow" writes:

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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 19 2019, @06:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 19 2019, @06:52PM (#788730)

    This seems even less practical than using blimps or skywriting for advertising. It sort of works, but only because it's not common. If it becomes common, then it probably won't work for long.

    Then there's the issue of ever increasing crowds in both airspace and orbiting around the planet. The last thing we need is a new iteration of water rights that becomes grandfathered in and then impossible to properly address even as it causes massive problems later on.