The ad obsession results from the trivial technology (using mylar balloons) required to create ads as bright as a full moon, which will soar 400 miles above your head every 90 minutes. Pizza Hut logos on the side of the booster rockets is not the issue, but it sets an alarming precedent.
For the French bicentennial, such a balloon was to fly for several months, but astronomers protested vehemently. But it is not just astronomy that suffers; every being on Earth will be forced to look at this junk for half the day, and the serenity of the heavens is no more. Go to www.darksky.org (Internation Dark-Sky Association) for more details.
You would see these ads every 90 minutes, every night of your life, from every camping trip, from every trek into the jungle, from every visit to Nepal or Sri Lanka. And given the low cost (a few $10M per balloon), every corporation on Earth will want one.
The night sky will look like one of those nauseating banner-laden web sites. Don't be fooled: the technology is here now, and it is very inexpensive, to utterly pollute our night skies with advertising. Doesn't that bother anybody here?
Packaging is just another version of media control via formatting. It's akin to proposed proprietary "MP3" formats too keep music distribution under control. Microsoft is not likely to make their software available for download, because they perceive that having you pay $$$ for a big package gives them greater control over who has access. It reaveals the level of faith they have in true internet commerce. By the way, what's wrong with being an environmentalist? I think anybody who can say excessive packaging "makes me sick" should be proud of that label. -- Not what you think.
Yup. For every Jupiter there are half a dozen moons, give or take. Maybe more in these collisionally evolved systems; who knows. Imagine looking at your sky each day! It is no coincidence that Europa is the most likely place to find existing life in our solar system, excepting Mars. And Earth of course. Europa has more oceans than the Earth, if liquid water is your cup of tea.
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however that is neither here nore there. let it be said that each & every one of us must at this moment
throw our televisions out the window
Ya got that? Breaker breaker one nine, I believe we are in trouble if you didn't
For the French bicentennial, such a balloon was to fly for several months, but astronomers protested vehemently. But it is not just astronomy that suffers; every being on Earth will be forced to look at this junk for half the day, and the serenity of the heavens is no more. Go to www.darksky.org (Internation Dark-Sky Association) for more details.
You would see these ads every 90 minutes, every night of your life, from every camping trip, from every trek into the jungle, from every visit to Nepal or Sri Lanka. And given the low cost (a few $10M per balloon), every corporation on Earth will want one.
The night sky will look like one of those nauseating banner-laden web sites. Don't be fooled: the technology is here now, and it is very inexpensive, to utterly pollute our night skies with advertising. Doesn't that bother anybody here?
Packaging is just another version of media control via formatting. It's akin to proposed proprietary "MP3" formats too keep music distribution under control. Microsoft is not likely to make their software available for download, because they perceive that having you pay $$$ for a big package gives them greater control over who has access. It reaveals the level of faith they have in true internet commerce. By the way, what's wrong with being an environmentalist? I think anybody who can say excessive packaging "makes me sick" should be proud of that label. -- Not what you think.
Yup. For every Jupiter there are half a dozen moons, give or take. Maybe more in these collisionally evolved systems; who knows. Imagine looking at your sky each day! It is no coincidence that Europa is the most likely place to find existing life in our solar system, excepting Mars. And Earth of course. Europa has more oceans than the Earth, if liquid water is your cup of tea.