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A New Twist On Skywriting
Nugget writes "The advent of Internet-based flight tracking technology enables an entirely new kind of skywriting. Gulfstream Aerospace sent up one of their $50M business jets today on an 8.5-hour test flight spanning 11 states for the sole purpose of leaving their mark on the Net in the form of a flight track that spells out 'GV' (the nickname of the Gulfstream V aircraft being flown) when viewed online."
Someone give these guys something to do, STAT! :D
Global warming is a cube.
... are we looking at a new type of spam?
Can't wait to read "Enlarge your peanus" right above some skyscraper...
Ignore this signature. By order.
You seem to forget that the private jets of $500,000+ salaried business executives use special Toorichtogiveashit patented non-global warming fuel unlike the economy class "Two or three times a year" passenger planes we prolls fly on.
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
GVV for global vvarming.
The latest Slashdot meme.
With a size of 3 billion points, breaking an earlier record, couldn't they have afforded a slightly more sophisticated typeface, such as Courier?
My browser (Firefox) doesn't go beyond 72 points. Is there a skywriting plugin available somewhere?
Leela: "Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
Fry: "Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no sir."
Being bitter is drinking poison and hoping someone else will die
What's worse than that is I actually did a google search on this magic fuel you mentioned and then it dawned on me.