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Glowing Space Billboards Could Show Ads in the Night Sky

posted by takyon on Saturday January 19 2019, @03:39PM   
from the Eat-at-Joe's dept.

"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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• Re:Public Won't Tolerate that Much Light Pollution (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.

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