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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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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday January 20 2019, @12:38AM
What about the light-pollution considerations from the perspective of terrestrial observers? Serious ones, not just the casual douchebags with their 2-footers who probably think it would be awesome to see more closely an airborne ad for crap.
The idea would be a lot better if we could do disco-like shit in the skies for tourist attractions, like when you used to use those Playstation 1 and Winamp visualizations while high on pot to enhance your experience. Of course, somebody has to pay for that somehow, and even if such an awesome idea were implemented, there would still be "commercial breaks" on a regular basis.