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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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @01:20AM
If I ever see some billboard in space from where I am, I will put on hold all my projects and devote my time into making some home made rocket to shoot it down, I won't even care if there will be more debris because of it.