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Drink Pepsi, Go to Space?

Posted by michael on from the be-like-mike dept.

Kayaker writes "According to an article on AdAge.com, Pepsi is considering a new promotion contest that would include a ride on the Russian Soyuz space taxi. Maybe Pepsi is better than Coke?"

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  1. Re:Does pepsi keep their promises? by delfstrom · · Score: 5, Informative
    The full true story of the Harrier jet is on the Urban Legends refrence pages at http://www.snopes.com/business/deals/pepsijet.htm
    "Enter John Leonard, a 21-year-old business student. Upon seeing that commercial and discovering he could purchase individual Pepsi points from the company for 10 each, he set about to get himself a Harrier at an unbelievable bargain rate.
    On 28 March 1996, Leonard forked over 15 original points plus a check for $700,008.50 raised from five investors for the remaining 6,999,985 points "plus shipping and handling" and demanded his jet. Pepsi laughed off the claim, pointing out the Harrier had never been offered in the Pepsi Points catalogue and was just in the commercial to provide a humorous completion to the piece."
    In August 1999, the New York judge upheld Pepsi's case. "No objective person could reasonably have concluded that the commercial actually offered consumers a Harrier jet," U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood said.
  2. Re:Does pepsi keep their promises? by Galvatron · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, actually, the military said those would be the only conditions under which they would sell one. Pepsi won the case, so they didn't have to give the guy anything. If they had lost, yeah, something like that probably would have happened.

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  3. Then have your soda OPEN SOURCE! by mekkab · · Score: 3, Informative

    As usual there is an open source answer to these corporate theives!

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    In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
  4. Yep by CaptainZapp · · Score: 2, Informative

    And here's a link (alas, no warranties, re: reliability).

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    mit taschenrechner in der hand

    kraftwerk

  5. Re:You couldn't get me in a Russian space ship. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    you're right, space shuttle only killed 7 people, while soyuz capsules killed a whopping 0 people in 30 years of operation.
    The difference between russian and american technology is like a difference between linux and windows. It is not new or flashy, but it _works_.