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ILikeBoobies ,

It’s never too early to be an eco-terrorist

chrp92 ,

Oh yeah, we are monitored all the time, we have ai cameras everywhere, all our devices have backdoors, big companies know everything about us, goverments support these companies, we are constantly being manipulated through the media, but ads in the sky is where I draw the line. Fuck off.

American_Communist22 ,
@American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml avatar

death to those fucking soulless bastards

Kecessa ,

Implying the places where that would happen have any kind of night view…

jetsetdorito ,

it’s only a matter of time before they start slapping ads on the Vegas sphere

Anticorp ,

I think we’re talking weeks or months here, not years.

expatriado ,

i remember reading about this idea on the paper in the 80s. i think the loggistics of launching such a large structure to orbit, just achieve bad PR would be have terrible ROI

CarbonIceDragon ,
@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social avatar

I imagine if done irl it wouldn’t be one solid space structure, but instead something like a ground based projector operating on cloudy nights, projecting an ad into the bottom of the cloud layer, or if actually in space, an array of satellites that each act as a “pixel”, with a laser that they can shine at a city or location that they want the ad visible from.

ProfessorProteus ,
@ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world avatar

Fortunately for us, this wouldn’t actually work that way. Rather, each of the individual satellites would have a different orbit so the image wouldn’t remain consistent, but instead converge into a point and invert itself on the other side of the Earth before coming back together again and repeating this process until they start colliding with one another or decay into the atmosphere. That is, unless each “pixel” made constant adjustments throughout the orbit, which would be a colossal waste of fuel.

Disclaimer: this is based only on my intuition from 780+ hours of Kerbal Space Program. I am not a scientist and I’ve never studied orbital mechanics.

Airazz ,

No need to launch anything, just use a powerful projector aimed at the cloud layer.

Like the Bat signal.

starman2112 ,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

A large projector, in a single easily bombed location

Steeve ,

This is such an old repost I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet

clay_spine ,

All the birds are dead in the future.

MelodiousFunk ,
@MelodiousFunk@kbin.social avatar

Good riddance. Goddamn spies.

Lifecoach5000 ,

Pigeons are liars.

Bipta ,

Everything's chrome dead in the future!

explodicle ,

Finishing the job from 65 million years ago.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I think we need to root out these hidden dinosaurs once and for all.

Bahnd ,

Bird watching goes both ways.

buzz86us ,

I guess 2015 came late

madmax666 ,

With any luck, hackers will turn them into penises

GrammatonCleric , (edited )
@GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world avatar

I live in the city, so I never see stars anyway. I say bring on the Blade Runner vibes!

EDIT: Sorry if I offended anyone with a little joke. I’ll stop trying to be funny.

pimento64 ,

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/29d2ade1-81d6-4f02-88e6-d4d56b1c0653.webm

MsPenguinette ,

They should project the night sky into city skies. As long as it doesn’t add significantly to light pollution, I wouldn’t be suprised if that would be good for people’s mental health

Poggervania ,
@Poggervania@kbin.social avatar

Or we could introduce more strict light pollution laws instead. Big Island has some of the most beautiful night skies and it’s because they basically have to mandate using sodium lights to keep the light pollution super low for the telescopes on Mauna Kea.

DarthBueller ,

The fact that cities are continuing to buy white streetlights that have intense green spectrum emissions despite light-pollution being a widespread and well-known issue, is beyond me. Even if you’re going for the energy efficiency of LEDs over the monochromatic sodium lights, it is not cost prohibitive to slightly adjust the spectrum. Instead we have stupidly bright lights high in green light that blow out night vision, that then break and turn purple. It pisses me off to no end.

Swedneck ,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

i mean we could also just institute light pollution measures like many places worldwide already have, but i guess that’s not as cool

The_Picard_Maneuver ,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

This is the first time I’ve seen the original tweet without Johnny Silverhand

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/7ea40963-6526-439f-85a1-8e02c917fda2.png

andrew_bidlaw ,

It’s way better without him. Take my hug 🤗 for enduring this cringe.

Tb0n3 ,

I had the very same gut response as Lauren.

new_guy ,

But the Michelin balloon tho

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