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First Artificial Aurora May Lead to Night Sky Ads
An anonymous reader writes "LiveScience is reporting that the military's HAARP project has had its first success generating artificial light displays in the ionosphere. They created little green speckles of manmade aurora within an existing auroral display. The work is designed primarily to 'enhance communications and surveillance systems for both civilian and defense purposes.' Next up: sky-high neon advertisements."
Instruction: Point At Eyes
Is it too early to consider Open Sky as an alternative?
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
Sky Spam
Table-ized A.I.
OK son, that's the big dipper, the little dipper, and over there to the right of the Cialis ad is Orion. No, that's not his schvantz, that's his bow son.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Anyone have one of those green lasers?
The process is not well understood, but scientists speculate it could one day be employed to light a city or generate celestial advertisements.
do we reall need. "En|@rge Ur PeNI5" 30 miles high in the sky?
what about a feed of the latest slashdot stories? would increase efficiency of nerds worldwide?
any other suggestions?
Marge, get me your address book, 4 beers, and my conversation hat.
Did anyone else automatically think, "Just like Cowboy Bebop!"?
Yes, marketing within the most vulnerable demographic: space bounty hunters.
- A
...welcome the chance to beat the living daylights out of the first idiot to broadcast an advertisement.
-- I prefer the term "karma escort."
Yet again I have to say... Nikola Tesla owns you.
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I think it would be fun to make people think God is speaking to them.
Sure we do. I see an end to spam.
1) They light up the sky.
2) Track the source of the advertisement to a geographical region
3) Shoot the fuckers (for fun! no profit!)
It is a problem that will solve itself.
Batman will be pleased. Now the bat signal will be more visible than ever.
Warning: Could be fatal if taken seriously
Love this from the referenced articale "We unfortunately were indoors watching the data on monitors during the experiment and were busy scrambling trying to make sure the effects were real and not some glitch with the equipment,"
Picture in mind of geeks staring at glowing screens while the 1 MW RF beam blasts the crap out of a 747 or worse.
although there is a lot of particle activity from the Sun, it is mostly absorbed and bent in to the shape of the Van Halen radiation belt.
Hehehe. Hot for teacher, are we? Will they see this over Panama? Jump for joy, if they do?
Yeah, imagine it now, climb to a nice overlook on a clear night, maybe with you special someone, sitting back to watch the stars and in the sky.
"Refinance you home, Call Earl at 555-Loan"
Wonderful.
Some astronomer gets the latest shot from his telescope and an incredible image is ruined by a add for Outback Steakhouse.
Yeah, someone really ought to do somjething about that pesky solar wind... Damn those irresponsible americans for not shutting it off.
The worst is that a "leak" in the ionosphere leads to a complete destruction of the radiation-blocking area that keeps us alive.
so? just switch her from suck to blow!
can't we have ANY physical space not filled with advertising?
Fortunately, my ass is unlikely to become an advertising space any time soon...Wait a minute... Eddie Bauer jeans patch?
THAT WASN'T PART OF THE DEAL, EDDIE BAUER! Curse you and your comfortable denim!
surely you mean a Van Allen Radiation Belt
You can turn a Van Allen Belt into a Van Halen belt with one of these
My pics.
What will aliens think when they see "Get your X-Lax, Corner of Wyse and Main" spread across the night sky on a visit to Chicago?
I for one would rather impress an external intelligence rather than frighten them away with promises of comfortable bowel movements.
"Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important." (Lisa Hoffman)
"...can't we have ANY physical space not filled with advertising?"
When you say things like that, the terrorists win. You bastard.
> Van Halen radiation belt.
Well, looks like somebody is into classic rock =)
Imagine this over Iraq
All your base are belong to us!
this is why living in canada is fun ...
"What are you going to do? Make it SUNNY and WARM?!"
Argh...can't we have ANY physical space not filled with advertising?
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Leela: "Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?"
Fry: "Not in our dreams! Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ballgames. And on buses. And milk cartons. And t-shirts. And bananas. And written on the sky. But not in dreams! No sirree!
Just imagine a hacker gaining access to the control systems. I already shudder at the thougt of goatse broadcast on the night sky...