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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: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Saturday January 19 2019, @08:06PM (1 child)
No. Wait till they launch it, hack into them, and then bring the whole thing burning down back to Earth. That way, they lose millions of dollars. Rinse and Repeat.
If it gets really serious, then you burn down the houses of the executives and shareholders themselves. Rinse and Repeat that till they understand that space is sacrosanct and we won't put up with that shit.
A little stunt to put up a glittering disco ball is one thing, but an actual advertisement is fucking adhorrent.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @12:20AM
Make it spew anti-government propaganda as it orbits above each country in turn.
Wait for all the governments to knock it in a singular show of unity :)