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First Artificial Aurora May Lead to Night Sky Ads

Posted by samzenpus on from the everything-is-for-sale dept.

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."

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  1. adverts? by Coneasfast · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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  2. I, for one... by EEBaum · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...welcome the chance to beat the living daylights out of the first idiot to broadcast an advertisement.

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  3. Nikola Tesla by FoXDie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yet again I have to say... Nikola Tesla owns you.

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  4. Yeah, we do by the+grace+of+R'hllor · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Excellent by eremitic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Batman will be pleased. Now the bat signal will be more visible than ever.

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  6. Re:Laser paint logos on the moon? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    CHA