TheSafehouse



Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain




Safehouse Forums



Safehouse Site Info



 

The end is nigh


 

 

 







Register FAQ Members List Calendar Mark Forums Read

Reply
 
Thread Tools
Caowyth
Caowyth is offline
Veteran

Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Seattle, WA


Caowyth's Avatar

 
Ads in Space?
Reply With Quote   #1

www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/spa...index.html

Quote:"Space commercials could embrace huge areas and a colossal number of consumers," he said. "This would literally be intercontinental coverage."

He said the satellites would be visible in the night sky by employing sunlight reflectors, with multiple satellites linked together to create a message large enough to be seen.

"People would be able to see writing in the skies from the Earth no worse than they see the stars," he said.

I'm normally pretty pro-business, but if this ever comes even close to happening to my night sky, I'll be leading the protests and boycotts personally.



EZ_Vindicor
EZ_Vindicor is offline
Registered Member

Join Date: Feb 2004


 
Re: Ads in Space?
Reply With Quote   #2

Greed is really sucky thing. The heavens shouldn't be used as Etch-a-Sketches for businesses to write on.

I'm having a Futurama moment here, envisioning ads being beamed into our dreams as well.


EZ_inuur
EZ_inuur is offline
Registered Member

Join Date: Dec 2003


 
Re: Ads in Space?
Reply With Quote   #3

i dont know if this is true but one of my teacher told me years ago that when NASA began to to into space, Coca cola asked them if they could put a giant COKE sign in space in the 60's.

according to my teacher they said no Inuur Darkpoker
Legion of Ragnarok
54 rogue
Ayonae Ro
*remenber Grobb"

EzCode Parsing Error:][


EZ_Vindicor
EZ_Vindicor is offline
Registered Member

Join Date: Feb 2004


 
Re: Ads in Space?
Reply With Quote   #4

Coke probably just didn't offer enough money.


Bladesake
Bladesake is offline
Veteran

Join Date: Nov 2001


 
Re: Ads in Space?
Reply With Quote   #5

This is a bleak day for the untouched parts of the universe. Ooohh.. so shiney!
Manx's Lootbag


EZ_Ceelorn
EZ_Ceelorn is offline
Registered Member

Join Date: May 2003


 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #6

and we could see ducks fly back north by following the coke sign and heading east at the nike swoosh


EZ_Pearll
EZ_Pearll is offline
Registered Member

Join Date: Nov 2000


 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #7

The second ad the the right, shining so bright for you...

Actually, what it reminds me of are the ads near the gates in Cowboy Bebop, only to a much worse extent.


EZ_Filan Fyretracker
EZ_Filan Fyretracker is offline
Registered Member

Join Date: Sep 2001


 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #8

just wait for laser projected ads from the ISS.....
Earth Destroyed by Solarflare. Video at Eleven
Theres something on the Wing....


Koru
Koru is offline
Queen Of Chaos

Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: Somewhere near the north pole


 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #9

Well at least this way if alien life makes contact with us they'll know what products to buy to be cool and to make their lives better. I mean no one wants uncool alien life as our first contact right?


notwen
notwen is offline
Veteran

Join Date: Mar 2000


notwen's Avatar

 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #10

I remember seeing something about this in Omni magazine about 15 years ago... or maybe it was Popular Science. Even at the age of 11 or 12 I dreaded the day it would be made reality.


EZ_Tabbran
EZ_Tabbran is offline
Registered Member

Join Date: Oct 2000


 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #11

Chairface Chippendale had the right idea! Safehouse Minority Terror Squad Commander


PsiKoTicK
PsiKoTicK is offline
Veteran

Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Hilton Head, SC


PsiKoTicK's Avatar

 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #12

Wow, Tabb. That was reaching back. Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers, or was that Darkwing Duck? I forget. Veteran Kakarat Doomstalker
65 Barbarian Assassin


notwen
notwen is offline
Veteran

Join Date: Mar 2000


notwen's Avatar

 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #13

Neither, and PsiKo you make me cry.

It was the Tick!


EZ_Zulian
EZ_Zulian is offline
Registered Member

Join Date: May 2000


 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #14

PsiKo makes lots of people cry.
/em weeps over his rar


Cantatus
Cantatus is offline
Veteran

Join Date: Feb 2002


Cantatus's Avatar

 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #15

Ugh, I'd boycott any company that placed ads in the sky like that. The sky should belong to us all. I shouldn't have to look up and see that polluting my view.
Profile


EZ_Ten Evenings
EZ_Ten Evenings is offline
Registered Member

Join Date: Aug 2003


 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #16

Itll suck when we have to tell our children that the Big Dipper used to be right there behind Twinkie the Kid, and Scorpio is easy to find cause its just south of the tube of Crest.


EZ_Slyy Daugg
EZ_Slyy Daugg is offline
Registered Member

Join Date: Jun 2001


 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #17

I think this idea is absolutely obscene.

Is nothing sacred anymore?

SD



Koru
Koru is offline
Queen Of Chaos

Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: Somewhere near the north pole


 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #18

Slyy, do you really even have to ask this? These aren't ethical nice people like say lawyers, they're advertisers. If they could I'm sure they'd make toilet paper that sang and flashed ads at you while you were on the toilet simply because you were a captive audience.


EZ_Pearll
EZ_Pearll is offline
Registered Member

Join Date: Nov 2000


 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #19

Now there's an idea... wipe your ass with the latest reality show promo.


EZ_joekreeper1
EZ_joekreeper1 is offline
Registered Member

Join Date: Sep 2003


 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #20

many moons ago when I was visiting some relatives in Yugosalvia ( many years before the civil wars when Yugosalvia was leader of the non aligned nations) I head this joke,

Guy: did you hear? the soviets went up to the moon and painted it RED!!!

Guy2: OH NO what did the Americans have to say about this?

Guy: nothing they just went up and painted Coca Cola across it.


Pyrocat Moonstalker
Pyrocat Moonstalker is offline
Veteran

Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Seattle, Washington


Pyrocat Moonstalker's Avatar

 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #21

I am frightened and simutaneously amused by the thought of a "You are the *random number* person to be born! Visit ____ to claim your prize!" ad bigger than a city..

edit: forgot to test sig Edited by: Pyrocat Moonstalker at: 3/11/04 11:26 pm


Dragynphyre
Dragynphyre is offline
Veteran

Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Wherever you aren't.


Dragynphyre's Avatar

 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #22

I would also be one of those boycotting any company that would do this. It's bad enough I have to look at their ads everytime I even glance at a TV or magazine.

(Back In Black)
Delissandra Splitshadow - Marauder of Clan X
Grandmaster Poisoner (250), Master Potter (195), Grandmaster Lush (200)



EZ_joekreeper1
EZ_joekreeper1 is offline
Registered Member

Join Date: Sep 2003


 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #23

on the plus side imagine the SI swimsuit ads IN SPACE!!!


EZ_Vindicor
EZ_Vindicor is offline
Registered Member

Join Date: Feb 2004


 
Re: Ads in Space
Reply With Quote   #24

Bleh...imagine X10 camera ads in space...




Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools

Posting Rules

Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump







 
All times are GMT -7. The time now is 12:49 AM.
All posts are
© Copyright 2004-2006 The Safehouse Network