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Pepsi Says It'll Use an Artificial Constellation, Hung in the Night Sky Next To the Stars, To Promote an Energy Drink (futurism.com)
A Russian company called StartRocket says it's going to launch a cluster of cubesats into space that will act as an "orbital billboard," projecting enormous advertisements into the night sky like artificial constellations. And its first client, it says, will be PepsiCo -- which will use the system to promote a "campaign against stereotypes and unjustified prejudices against gamers" on behalf of an energy drink called Adrenaline Rush, reports Futurism. From the report: Yeah, the project sounds like an elaborate prank. But Russian PepsiCo spokesperson Olga Mangova confirmed to Futurism that the collaboration is real. "We believe in StartRocket potential," she wrote in an email. "Orbital billboards are the revolution on the market of communications. That's why on behalf of Adrenaline Rush -- PepsiCo Russia energy non-alcoholic drink, which is brand innovator, and supports everything new, and non-standard -- we agreed on this partnership."
Go away. Don't pollute our beautiful skies like that.
And on a personal note, if I ever needed a reason to boycott PepsiCo products, there it is.
Brought to you by: "Al"toids - the curiously weird mint.
Dear space organization in India, There is a new target for you. Please fire at will. A space billboard already is space junk.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
I'd happily crowdfund a rocket to forcibly deorbit these ads.
A number of years ago, France was looking at doing something similar, using a number of large Mylar ballons, so they could celebrate an anniversery as the satellite passed overhead, which would glow brightly. This was finally nixed when astronomers made mention that this would destroy their equipment, as it would be difficult to plan for this object to go overhead, and its brightness would fry sensitive photocells.
Again, someone trying a project like this. The fewer items in space, the better. With countries starting to shoot down satellites, it is only a matter of time before the Kessler Syndrome rears its ugly head, and getting past low earth orbit would be impossible.
"campaign against stereotypes and unjustified prejudices against gamers"
This is clearly satire... r-right?
This might not go over as well as they think. People are kind of tired of corporations thinking they own everything. I can imagine children interested in science finding it offensive rather that cool. Pepsi has a lot of different products that could be boycotted. I run a planetarium, and I can imagine the shows I could do on light pollution, having a great big orbting billboard to point to as an example of BAD. Right now, everybody has too many bright lights. Nobody's head stands head and shoulders above the rest as offensive. But when Pepsi puts their name on a billboard, I have a bad guy to memorialize forever. It'd be terrible, but it'd be great for Pepsi to bring a whole world of opinion down upon their head as enemies of the night sky.
... or a short story about this published about 50-60 years ago? I'm drawing a blank (and all my old scifi novels are in storage) but it involved billboards in space or ads on the moon or some such idea.
CUR ALLOC 20195.....5804M
With all the tall buildings and smog I can't see the sky anyway
This is the absolute dumbest idea. The absolute dumbest. Beyond the absurd expense, beyond the stupid risk of debris, only people living in the darkest skies will be able to see it if they wanted to.
And why will it work this time?
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=120121&page=1
This could interfere with celestial navigation. What do I do if suddenly a part of a pepsi can is now the brightest thing in the sky? When the solar flares take out the GPS satellites, we're all in trouble now.....
Didn't we have ads in the 20th century?
Well, sure, but not in our stars. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky. But not in stars. No siree!
Pepsi may be trying to wrap this up in some kind of SJW sentiment but the reality is that it's just more advertisements.
We have enough garbage in space, and if we are going to do anything useful in space in our future it's important that we don't ruin it with more debris.
And who will be able to SEE this?
Wasn't it The Merchants of Venus by Fred Pohl?
Anyone have a can of Coffiest they can lend me?
"In the novel Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, Nova 5 is an American vessel owned by "The Coca-Cola Company" which was sent on a mission to induce the supernova of 128 super giant stars in order to create a five-week-long message in the sky visible even in daylight, reading "COKE ADDS LIFE!" Kryten causes Nova 5 to crash after cleaning the sensitive computer terminals with soapy water. After the Red Dwarf crew finds the wreck it is brought aboard and repaired in order to utilize its Duality Jump engine, which could get the crew back to Earth within three months. However, although the ship is successfully repaired, circumstances prevent them from ever going through with it. "
https://reddwarf.fandom.com/wiki/Nova_5
A bit larger scale though... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_in_Red_Dwarf#Nova_5
Fuck you pepsi.
It's going to get hacked... and images of penises, Nazi, Mohammed, and shit will rain from the heavens.
It will be a good fun year... or month...
So basically pollute the sky with a freaking advertisement... and it's against prejudices towards gamers. Why the fuck should this happen?
Elitist astronomers have had thousands of years to look into the night sky - time for someone else to have some fun with it!
This is PepsiCo, the same company that wanted to project a giant Pepsi logo on the moon with lasers for advertising. Of course this turned out to not be real and instead they settled for putting their logo on the side of a rocket.
...you go off and do one of the nerdiest things in human history?
Oh yeah. That'll keep Ogre at bay.
My family does not drink artificially infused sugar water. Do we have to watch it? Or the mug of a hell bound presidential candidate.
What country/organisation could launch a few extra, just floating nearby.... that would change the message to something funny/rude/brand damaging.
It's like buying a billboard next to one you dislike and adding a few extra words.....
I'd love to see this. It's a pretty neat technological achievement if it works. So yea, I say do it. Show the world what it's capable of so we can all see it. I think it would be pretty damn neat to see.
Then ban the shit out of it at the international level and force them to de-orbit their sats, so we don't have to ever see it again. Once was plenty.
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
Looks like the next black hole we are going to image is going to look like the pepsi swirl logo...
It's a revolution on the market of global pollution. Polluting the night sky like that. Shame on you.
We're rising all the way up to the heavens.
Energy drinks always taste bad.
Great.. now im gonna have to figure out how to Ad-Block SPACE! (Pops open UBlock Origin Umbrella)
Billboards are illegal in my state - outlawed back in the 1970's. How will these laws stand up against the out-law space region?
This is the ultimate in light pollution preventing astronomers from seeing the night sky. As a person with a small backyard telescope it might be interesting to view them. But for those multi-hour images I just hope these don't drift into my view. It'd be like that annoying mime at the park who keep trying to photo-bomb.
Suddenly a joke from the space race era gets new merits:
"What if the Russians get to the moon first?"
"They'll probably paint it red."
"So we have to hurry!"
"Relax. If they do, just send up a crew with loads of white paint and have them write "Coca Cola" across"
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
All hail the new God.
> That's why on behalf of Adrenaline Rush -- PepsiCo Russia energy non-alcoholic drink, which is brand innovator, and supports everything new, and non-standard -- we agreed on this partnership.
That doesn't seem right. No one supports every new thing.
They looked on the beautiful night sky, pointing out to each other the constellations they knew, admiring the band of the Milky Way as it swept across the inky night sky.
But all go things must come to an end, they had to get up early to polish the shipping drones for tomorrows run. They stood up, and removed the augmented reality goggles.
Looking up again, one of them thought he could maybe see Orion peeking out from behind the neon cup-o-noodles constellation and northen lighting shading effects, but then it was gone as the remaining colors of the night sky washed over his eyes competing for attention.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
In big fat letters across the Russian night sky. "PUTIN SUCKS."
A company proposed something like this about 15 years ago which was a giant orbital billboard made of a very thin durable material that would be unfurreled once it reached the proper orbit. It was going to be a simple logo which would be associated with various companies and products.
This backfired like crazy, pissing off astronomers as well as people who simply didn't want to see this crap pollute the night sky . The project never got started.
Now they are trying this crap again, this time in Russia. Either they didn't learn the first time around, or maybe (in a very insulting way) they think Russians are stupid and will accept this kind of shit 'the Americans' wont.
Keep this shit out of the night sky.
If this happens we'll have to make sure to completely remove PepsiCo from all universities (not only those with faculties of astronomy), all colleges and all highschools and schools.
Some anti-capitalist or anti-western will take it out in some way and be very disappointed at the lack of negative reaction from the "west" or most capitalists. In fact we will be able to see who is most in the pockets of the crazies by how loud they howl.
What treaties or international treaties would be broken by whoever takes out those things? Which country could do it? As India can, I suspect Pakistan is working on it. They have a track record of working with North Korea. Perhaps they see Iran as someone to cooperate with and so on.
I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
Did they actually say NEXT to the stars??
E Proelio Veritas.
I really hope the Universal studios won't get any funny ideas from this.
Pepsi is a multi-billion dollar company. Right now the CEO of PepsiCo is yelling at some idiot in Russia about how the entire Pepsi brand is going to get a huge dose of negative publicity if this thing actually happens.
Now, that doesn't mean some other brand that cares less about its image won't do the same thing. GoDaddy sounds like a good candidate.
The same way your state could regulate content of radio stations outside of its borders. In other words, not at all. If there is profit in it, then it WILL be done, and done to its maximum effect. Remember, "Wall Street Demands It".
Seriously if these assholes actually do this, they should be hunted down and shot
Fake.
I won't accept this horrible insult to nature unless is supports 4K resolution with HDMI support. I wanna play video games on a giant screen in the sky!!!!
Seriously though, reading the article is sounds more like a joke. But academically, I'd love to see how the science for this could work.
I just sent an email to my Congress critters asking them to ban space based advertising. Please do the same: https://ziplook.house.gov/htbin/findrep_house
Why not shadow a full moon in such a way that you draw the Coca Cola logo on it. You're walking with your lover's hand in yours on a beautiful moonlit night along the beach. You stop, hold her hands, gaze at the moon and there she is, "Coca Cola written on the face of it." You crack open a bottle of Coke and forget all about each other. Go home, get some Cheetos.
It's not as if the things are going to stay stuck in the sky were these guys had put them. Most of them would be not in any position to display anything to anybody, most of the time. You'd need to have huge numbers of them that weren't displaying anything most of the time to have the much smaller number (but still huge) that were in a position to meaningfully display something at any given time.
Can anybody explains why this makes the slightest bit of sense?
Those poor gamers! So misunderstood. Glad Pepsi is going to stand up for those victims. Such virtue!
This kind of shit should not be allowed...
http://astronomy.com/news/2019...
Just another day in Paradise
I see they have their top minds on this project.
(Boycott) Me too!
For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.
Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
It has blood on it!
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Sound of Silence
Sun researchers find strange eclipse reading
Next total eclipse: July 2, 2019 South America/Pacific
In _The Man Who Sold The Moon_ the idea was to go to the (thinly disguised) Coca Cooa company and sell them the rights to turn the moon into a billboard - a giant bottle cap - by launching small rockets to spread soot to selectively darken the surface.
But the idea was not to actually DO it. It was to NOT do it, and build an ad campaign on how it had bought the rights in order to head off one of its rivals (7 up, also thinly disguised as "6+"). The 7up/6+ logo would be easily readable from Earth, but the Coca Cola / (whatever he called it) was too "busy" to be clear.
7up was independent at the time. But it's now owned by PepsiCo.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Between this and that commercial with a Kardashian-Jenner they really get what most people want
Gamers rise up!
I've heard this idea was being explored many times before, but it's never materialized. I think a CEO hears about the idea and gets excited over it, but the economics usually mean a lot of billboards and other ads will reach more eyes for less money.
Firstly, these work by reflecting sunlight. That means it will only be visible at night, but only when the satellite is still in sunlight and hasn't entered Earth's shadow yet. Then it's only visible to people with good horizons, or where it's passing very high overhead and people just happen to be looking up.
And the biggest problem is that these have a very large surface area which increases the atmospheric drag. So the orbit will decay a lot faster, with pretty much no options for any control after the ad is unfolded.
So, it's probably not going to happen this time either.
The opposition to it is also a bit overblown. The ods that you will ever see it are pretty slim, let alone have your view obstructed by it. All of the other ads spewing light neadlessly into the atmosphere are a much bigger problem for astronomers.
How do you say "Not All Edgelords" in Russian?
There should be a ban on advertisement methods like this. This is going too far. There's already too much junk hanging around our planet, and with systems like this one can also make it harder to navigate without tools.
They do this, it'll become Target Number One for every hacker and hacking organization on the planet, like an Eagle Scout Merit Badge for hackers. Just imagine it: a giant ASCII penis in your night sky. Or "KILL {insert country leader name here}". Political propaganda.
Overall? Worst idea EVER. This is graffitti on a cosmic scale. Should not be allowed.
The sky told me Pepsico has a solution for you.
All it took, was to eat actual food. Instead of whatever they are selling.
Don't be a "smile or die" American.
It's creepy and psychotic.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...
This is already illegal, in the US. I wonder where this company is based and we can just charge, and try in absence their executives.
Repeal the 17th Amendment TODAY! Also Please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
You pull some shit like this, you loose this customer in perpetuity.
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
This startup made an AI read every dystopian fiction novel and is turning its cursed ramblings into business plans.
Nope, no sig
Here in Europe (not just the EU), people more and more lean towards making the concept of a corporation outright illegal per se.
That includes the concept of "for-profit".
Eastern Europe liked that by default, given their history and recently seeing how much capitalism fucked them up in different but just as bad ways. Including, and this is key, the eastern part of Germany!
France loves everything they can protest, so they're in.
The UK is not exactly part of the in-group anymore until they find out what they want.
And the rest are either small tag-alongs or too busy with the internal chaos the EU caused them.
The goal is: An organisation is expected to improve not just some stupid and mostly imaginary number, but to improve *the world* and humanity! Money should always be mere means to achieve that.
And WE define what "good" means, because they have proven that they can't be trusted with that.
We will also check that they actually do this. And literally disown them if they don't.
The housing corporation "Deutsche Wohnen" is the first that is currently about to be disowned, for price gouging, extortion, and causing thousands to be homeless or leave the city (Berlin) altogether.
I hope they get expelled. From the planet.
Must be April first on the calendar they use in the Russian Empire.
I have no TV/radio, use an ad blocker, and I don't go out a lot. If I do, then only to the supermarket down the little side road that has only store brand products. Or along the river. The first one is not woth advertising in. And along the river it's illegal, to not ruin the scenery.
Non-food items are usually ordered online.
So when I occasionally get some flyer in a package, I toss it before I even read anything. And when there is an emergency, and I need to go some place else, I can ignore nearly all ads. I try to prevent it from even happening.
No, I don't like humans. They are a planetary pathogen. I just wait out their imminent extinction.
Reminds me of the Red Dwarf books. (source: https://reddwarf.fandom.com/wi...)
"In the novel Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, Nova 5 is an American vessel owned by "The Coca-Cola Company" which was sent on a mission to induce the supernova of 128 super giant stars in order to create a five-week-long message in the sky visible even in daylight, reading "COKE ADDS LIFE!" Kryten causes Nova 5 to crash after cleaning the sensitive computer terminals with soapy water. After the Red Dwarf crew finds the wreck it is brought aboard and repaired in order to utilize its Duality Jump engine, which could get the crew back to Earth within three months. However, although the ship is successfully repaired, circumstances prevent them from ever going through with it."
John_Chalisque
I can guarantee you, that ever single person in management at Coke & Pepsi snorts cocaine. At the very least.
I mean it was the key selling point and ingredient of their product! And corporate culture usually sticks around for centuries.
Red Neck 1: Lookit! Nasty Viet stuff floating up there!
Red Neck 2: We need to shoot it dead. Get get us a Big Ass Gun (BAG).
Red Neck 1: We let's go to the hardware store, we gonna make ourselves one.
1 month later.
Soviet 1: Something is shooting at our satellites!
Soviet 2: On schedule. Now place shiny satellites next to invisible spy satellites. And grab popcorn.
Sovient 1: Da.
First off.. this is obviously going to be bright enough to be seen by people in cities. They want to be profitable, so.. that realistically means far brighter than most stars, as seen in the city.
How will you see this in large cities? Well, it'll have to be as bright as the moon, really. Brighter, preferably.
This means two things.
1) Holy fuck, will it ever be bring in rural areas. I live 50 miles from a medium sized city, and while it doesn't get super dark like in the real, deep country... it gets dark. That'll be gone. Just gone.
2) This will FUCK UP NATURE. An example? Google 'moon lights' for marine fish tanks. In my tank, I bought and added them in. They track the 'real world' light of the moon, and simulate it. And all sorts of shit started to spawn, to appear in the tank at night. Things that had never happened before.
The ocean is FULL of life that utterly and completely depends upon the moon for mating cycles, and more. And the land also has high dependency upon some of that.
Animals don't always adapt. Some do. Look at the crow, the robin, the budgie (in Canada at least). These birds THRIVE in the city, and couldn't care less about man being around. Hell, the robin LOVES cut lawns, nice and short, easy to find its worms and bugs .. while preventing predators from sneaking up through tall grass.
But some animals and birds are NEVER seen in the city. They can't handle it. Some of that is just... mankind. Can't handle, get used to us in such numbers.
But other parts are environmental. Like -- being able to see stars. Like there being real, actual, full darkness. Or a moon.
This isn't just an eyesore people!
fuuuuuuck theeem!
-pyrrho
The 7-year-old in me is hoping hackers re-shape the constellation into a giant you-know-what.
Table-ized A.I.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th 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 written in the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
No one cares what your captcha was
Houston TX, USA
Light at night, especially blue light, messes up circadian rhythms and has been implicated in sleep disruption, diabetes, and cancer. Imagine putting up an advertising constellation only to be sued by every woman with breast cancer and every man with prostate cancer. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub...
Those lawsuits would certainly hurt the bottom line. Is there blue in Pepsi's logo?
"I'm so moist I'm sticking to the leather." -Kermit the Frog on The Late Late Show
Yeah, no they're not. Hard no. Absolutely, positively, no.
But hey, there's a bright side. It'll give us a way to test anti-satellite defenses.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Trump will shoot it down with powerful lasers.
Make Sky Great Again!
Does this remind anyone else of a certain Dilbert episode?
--
Francisco
São Paulo / Brazil
Wasn't this prophesied in the Red Dwarf books with the same company? Been a while since I've read them but I'm sure this was part of the story that lead to the Earth being voted to be the space dump for the entire solar system.
https://contact.pepsico.com/pepsi
Haven't I heard this one before?
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
"I was born on the cusp of Pepsi and Verizon, with Taco Bell in retrograde."
Irresponsible pollution of the night sky is something we should all be completely against. Around half of our environment is UP and we really don't need adverts there.
On the one hand, we have sugared water, on the other we have one of the most enthralling and beautiful sights known to man. The choice is not difficult, and PepsiCo must never win this.
I suggest boycotting all their products until they agree to divorce themselves from stupidity and ignorance.
I expected better from Slashdot. You're getting trolled, folks. The dimmest object you can see with the naked eye is magnitude +6. Those are only visible in very dark rural areas. In big city suburbs, the best you can see with the naked eye is magnitude +4. A cubesat's reflected sunlight magnitude is typically +10 or +11. Cubesats are only barely visible to a very large telescope when illuminated solely with sunlight.
Now if each cubesat is an active light emitter, that's a whole different thing. Let's say it's primarily solar powered. Let's further say Pepsi spends $BIG_NUM on 44% efficient multi-junction solar cells. If 3 of the 6 faces of the cube are solar cells, that's 300 square centimeters of solar cell. Solar irradiance outside atmosphere is 1367 watts per square meter. 300 square centimeters is 0.03 square meters. 1367 * 0.03 * 0.44 = 18.04 watts. Let's say the other 3 faces of the cube are LEDs. 18 watts of LEDs from Amazon gets you 1260 lumens. 1260 lumens from 0.03 square meters is 42,000 lux. That's like a tiny spot of direct sunlight as seen from Earth. That's pretty good, though the angle at which it's visible is limited by altitude and it having only 3 illuminated faces. There's no image whatsoever. It's just a bright spot.
These are all best case numbers, of course. In reality the three faces of the cube won't operate at maximum efficiency since they can't all face the sun directly at once, and in LEO they don't see sunlight at all for half their orbit, etc etc. Still, if they worked at it, it could be pretty obnoxious.
I'm surprised no one has pointed out that you can't put a bunch of satellites into orbit and have them maintain a formation. The only way to maintain formation in orbit without constantly using some kind of propulsion is to have all objects in an identical orbit, line astern. So maybe the ads will be in morse code?
to see the future he predicted.
Next theyâ(TM)ll project advertising on the moon and use it as a giant billboard.
It's bad enough they are playing ads at the gas pumps now.
Can there be no space free of ads?
This species deserves what's coming.
. . . That this will work. BUT if it does, here's the perfect application for India's new missile system.
I would join you in the boycott... if I bought anything from Pepsi in the first place. I don't drink soda, or lipton; I almost never eat fast food, so me boycotting KFC and TacoBell, and any other Pepsi owned chains over this won't help.
Pepsi hasn't owned KFC, Taco Bell or Pizza Hut (you forgot them) since 1997. I can't get mod points very often here, yet people have thrown you enough to get you up to a score of 5 for basically being ignorant of history. So that's what it takes to get modded up around here. Very interesting.
Cubesat killer crowd funding! Get busy!
Should get coke to pitch in and launch some additional cube sats to deface the Pepsi constellation and establish a defacement foundation dedicated to defacement of all similar advertising campaigns by anyone else contemplating this.
I'm just still trying to figure out WTF "Next To the Stars" is supposed to mean.
David Gould
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I mean, this really isn't that far out there. In the 60s there were Senate hearings over advertising to children where experts made it clear that kids couldn't tell adverts from actual programming, but they were brushed aside. There's all the smoking adverts too, not just to kids but the outright lies to adults. Or the tricks used by marketers to make Diamond engagement rings seem like a thousand year old tradition when they invented it themselves in the 30s. Oh, and Santa Claus was made up to sell Coke.
I guess what I'm saying is that I'm not sure if this should be the straw that breaks the camel's back. It's seems pretty par for the course. I suppose you could say it's harder to avoid, but to be honest I'm not an astronomy nerd and can't remember the last time I went stargazing.
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Apparently tossing the word "pollution" around makes anything you label with it bad.
Can I insist all the Democrats TIME magazine puts on its covers look bad and are therefore polluting the world?
I don't trust the green people's views of esthetics and certainly not of business.
campaign against stereotypes and unjustified prejudices against gamers
Do you have an idea how hard it is to be a gamer?
GAMERS RISE UP
-Gang Weed 2020
Yet another reason to despise that company.
an increase in amateur rocketry and ordinance design...
Life isn't all YES or NO answers.
Pepsi Satellites NO!
Flaming Hot Cheetos YES!
Keep your craptastic advertising out of our skies, you fucking maggots.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Marketing keeps destroying everything in order to sell more cheese balls.
We have those annoying Ads, on mobile, web sites, TVs, on the streets, pretty much everywhere. This is enough. If Pepsi do it, it's easy as they are trespassing the limit. We should not buy any product from them anymore. If we are having this much ad in our lives, means that's very ineffective. Otherwise those companies would be saving $$$ from ads (that's not cheap) and having more profits. Someone isn't doing the right calc.
Hey pepsi, how about using that money and lower your prices!!! the best advertising is having the lowest prices.
get the heck off my sky
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
Eat like an adult, and you'll already be boycotting Pepsi:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_PepsiCo
Time to launch the ad blocker hyper sonic missiles.
No. Just fuck off. No.
" They see people almost being denied a supreme court seat because they once had a beer while in school." - No, he perjured himself under oath. It's not the beer, you lying faggot. IT'S THE LYING, YOU LYING FAGGOT.
YOU TELL A LIE UNDER OATH AND YOU ARE A CRIMINAL. That he basically ATTEMPTED TO RAPE A CLASSMATE also didn't really rise to the occasion of a lifetime appointment to the SCOTUS without investigation.
But with TRAITOR SUPPORTING DISHONEST FAGGOTS LIKE YOURSELF in charge? He sailed right through anyway, to lie another day.
Dry your eyes, traitor. Your little perjurer didn't get caught - yet!
https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13577626&cid=58274188
Nyet tovarvich, we must have cheki breki instead
...written 1954 and I think it had a Constellation Pepsi in it.
But I cannot find it in the Amazon snippet. I remember it because the dot over the "i" had gotten out of sync with the rest of the constellation and was now over the "e."
That sounds cools, oh wheres the opt out option? Oh well at least my Google Glass comes with uBlock Universe!
I really hope this promotes Slurm!!
Pepsi sells that, right?
One of the funniest books I've ever read, was this novel spin off of Red Dwarf. In it, something very much like this is predicted:
In the novel Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, Nova 5 is an American vessel owned by "The Coca-Cola Company" which was sent on a mission to induce the supernova of 128 super giant stars in order to create a five-week-long message in the sky visible even in daylight, reading "COKE ADDS LIFE!" Kryten causes Nova 5 to crash after cleaning the sensitive computer terminals with soapy water.
https://reddwarf.fandom.com/wiki/Nova_5
Finally a reason to use those anti sat rockets
So, I've heard there is a guy building a home made rocket to go to space. Since flatearthers pay the bills he promises to prove Earth is flat.
So, how about we chip in, so he would knock this shit down while he's at it?
What is best in life? Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper.
Dye the ocean Brown to promote their cola drink?
Polluting the night sky with something that has to be brighter than the stars and bright enough to penetrate the light pollution would simply make more light pollution.... until another cola company has to go one better. - In the end we can model another sun to replace the original. - and burn cola companies advertising to create energy.
Better to spend the money on green packaging and remove the 1000s of tons of plastic bottles from landfill IMHO.
This immediately reminded me of "Sales Pitch" by Philip K. Dick,
Outrageous.... Time To Boycott!!!
Scramble the jets boys, we're under attack.
99 red balloons.