Low Earth Orbit billboard for 7B people

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16 points·thekhatribharat··10 comments

> According to project leader Vlad Sitnikov, this commodification of the night sky is the next logical step in advertising.

And the next logical step to that is guillotines.

Advertisers feel entitled to ruining the night sky? Color me surprised.

Fucking disgusting. Advertisers are scum, and if you're reading this and working in ads or adtech, shame on you.

> When deep space exploration ramps up, it’ll be the corporations that name everything: the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

(Fight Club, 1999)

Cue skunkworks long range, focused EMP / Maser project in 3... 2... 1...

Not sure if aircraft safety will be a defensible complaint.

But something along lines of UN Humanity Heritage Commons could be. There is a rather effective way to control launches - whatever goes to orbit passes that, or else - so it might get challenging to launch this kind of advertisement. At least for now.

We already have aircraft based adverts (on beaches or the Goodyear blimp) so probably not a good avenue.

Also every time we launch something in space there are pieces of garbage that stay there in low orbit for years, so it doesn't look like the place is considered of very high cultural value at the moment.

a fitting end to humanity: kessler syndrome caused not by war but by advertising

Could motivate anti satellite weapon research.

I don't want to live in the future anymore.

Pls can be go to war with Russia to stop this?

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