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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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Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Magic Oddball on Sunday January 20 2019, @03:52AM (1 child)
The bi-plane banner ads were fairly common where I grew up in the 1980s, but they were very different from the few I've seen in recent years... The old ones were just a string of huge red connected letters with no background (like in this article [nytimes.com]), so they were really easy to read; the newer type are multiple lines (thus far smaller letters) in black on a near-square white background pulled by a smaller/thinner single-winged plane, and are difficult at best for me to read, too.
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Sunday January 20 2019, @11:19AM
Not only is the plane-towed ad banner far, far cheaper, the noise the low-flying plane makes attracts attention upwards as well. I can't imagine many people even noticing these distant satellite glow-worms.