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I had the very same gut response as Lauren.
Implying the places where that would happen have any kind of night view…
This is the first time I’ve seen the original tweet without Johnny Silverhand
It’s way better without him. Take my hug 🤗 for enduring this cringe.
i remember reading about this idea on the paper in the 80s. i think the loggistics of launching such a large structure to orbit, just achieve bad PR would be have terrible ROI
No need to launch anything, just use a powerful projector aimed at the cloud layer.
Like the Bat signal.
A large projector, in a single easily bombed location
I imagine if done irl it wouldn’t be one solid space structure, but instead something like a ground based projector operating on cloudy nights, projecting an ad into the bottom of the cloud layer, or if actually in space, an array of satellites that each act as a “pixel”, with a laser that they can shine at a city or location that they want the ad visible from.
Fortunately for us, this wouldn’t actually work that way. Rather, each of the individual satellites would have a different orbit so the image wouldn’t remain consistent, but instead converge into a point and invert itself on the other side of the Earth before coming back together again and repeating this process until they start colliding with one another or decay into the atmosphere. That is, unless each “pixel” made constant adjustments throughout the orbit, which would be a colossal waste of fuel.
Disclaimer: this is based only on my intuition from 780+ hours of Kerbal Space Program. I am not a scientist and I’ve never studied orbital mechanics.
DItto.
I’ll start hunting ad executives for sport.
Bird shot from a long barrel should reach high enough, and the descending pellets would do minimal damage to property and people.
Shouldn’t need a ton of power from the shot, just enough for the drone rotors to smack into and snap.
You wont do shit keyboard warrior lmao, go grab a coke now
…says the rando with his keyboard
I’m not the one who threatened to do anything? u like being contrarian or just lacking reading comprehension?
I’ve often thought that in another life I would be an EcoTerrorist. So if this happens I’ll be right there with ya 💣
I live in the city, so I never see stars anyway. I say bring on the Blade Runner vibes!
EDIT: Sorry if I offended anyone with a little joke. I’ll stop trying to be funny.
They should project the night sky into city skies. As long as it doesn’t add significantly to light pollution, I wouldn’t be suprised if that would be good for people’s mental health
Or we could introduce more strict light pollution laws instead. Big Island has some of the most beautiful night skies and it’s because they basically have to mandate using sodium lights to keep the light pollution super low for the telescopes on Mauna Kea.
The fact that cities are continuing to buy white streetlights that have intense green spectrum emissions despite light-pollution being a widespread and well-known issue, is beyond me. Even if you’re going for the energy efficiency of LEDs over the monochromatic sodium lights, it is not cost prohibitive to slightly adjust the spectrum. Instead we have stupidly bright lights high in green light that blow out night vision, that then break and turn purple. It pisses me off to no end.
i mean we could also just institute light pollution measures like many places worldwide already have, but i guess that’s not as cool
But the Michelin balloon tho
If these are drones and someone does this irl I’m going to shoot them down
Drone-based sky projections/light shows typically use hundreds or thousands of them. Good luck.
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Someone could build an emp with a wave guide in their garage and just aim them at the drones
Just look at online forums and youtubers who are in the DIY electronics space
You could even make one from parts of a plasma globe
Well, if terrorism is your goal…
They’re drones, not people.
It would be vandalism and property destruction, not terrorism. Calm down, dude.
You seem to think an EMP wouldn’t have tremendous collateral damage. It’s a nuke for electronics, indiscriminate in targets.
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I guess you could launch a rocket with an EMP on it, to get it closer. And hopefully not take down a plane by accident? Yeah this idea is dumb.
All the birds are dead in the future.
Finishing the job from 65 million years ago.
I think we need to root out these hidden dinosaurs once and for all.
Good riddance. Goddamn spies.
Pigeons are liars.
Everything’s
chromedead in the future!Bird watching goes both ways.
This is such a stupid idea on so many levels but mostly because it’s functionally impossible. The amount of satellites that would need to be launched in order to be able to form a visible image from the surface of the Earth would be prohibitively expensive and complicated to organise. They would all crash into each other within about 15 minutes - because orbits are inherently chaotic, and because of the ultra low altitude they’d have to maintain to make it remotely visible, they would burn up in the atmosphere almost instantly.
Basically no one with even a high school level education is actually proposing this.
This is basically just rage bate.
This is basically just rage bate.
True, also since it’s expensive the company could have use that money to give extra wages in their employees but no they’re too greedy.
Who said anything about satellites? That looks more like bat-signal-style projections against the clouds
Wouldn’t they be more likely to use drones than satellites?
Yeah, and we already have drone lightshows
It would especially be effective in cities, with a high density of people. And the base cost would not be that large compared to normal advertising spots, which already go for a lot of money.
Basically, if it was legal, it would have already been done.
Could you project something on the moon?
Or write something on it with a laser!
Many people like to say that if they had a time machine they would go back and kill Hitler or some other valiant act of heroism that would prevent the death of millions.
Yet when faced with the real possibility of killing (or even just properly holding accountable - removal from society, redistribution of resources of) an individual now, who is already responsible for millions of deaths by virtue of withholding resources alone, never mind the active oppression and exploitation of billions that go in to maintaining the system that allows them their power, people suddenly become squeamish.
But not even at the idea of them doing it, but at the idea of anyone doing it (to the point of actively opposing it), and that’s just so fucking frustrating, that people can’t see the glaringly obvious dictators “of tomorrow”, who already literally control everything and are actively getting away with a lot shit directly out of the fascist playbook today, how anyone can still deny it to themselves just blows my mind.
We’re never going to get a better future as long as so many people refuse to accept that we’re never going to be given it by those living the high life off of our backs.
Not that I disagree but it’s absolutely fucking exhausting to come into the comment sections of a post like this and find a comment basically dropping a prepared lecture on something tangentially related because you saw a highly upvoted post involving something capitalism-adjacent and decided to set up your soapbox.
Like, could you at least try to act like the comment is actually in response to the content of the post. Slip one line in there about “ads” or “night sky” or something, anything, that makes it sound like you’re genuinely responding to the post and not just deploying the speech you had in your back pocket.
The difference is that I can look up a moment in history when Hitler was vulnerable and then kill him with zero consequences.
There would be a lot of consequences for killing anyone today, and it’d be really hard to kill anyone that matters.
That begets the question, why do you feel okay with murder when there are no consequences?
Were you to find yourself in such a situation with say the CEO of Nestle or Nike, or Rupert Murdoch, or whomever you fancy, where you suddenly realize you have an opportunity to murder that person without consequence, would you do so?
I’d prefer they be sent to work camps to pay for their crimes - execution is a waste of resources
But if you’re talking about a situation where “press this magic button an Elon Musk dies” well~
It was a rhetorical question meant to prompt you into a moral or philosophical justification.
But for the record, I more or less agree with your position.
Okay, but like, I don’t want to outright say it because I’m pretty sure the people I hate are watching for that sort of thing 😅
The most difficult tasks are the most rewarding.
It’s like having a mouse squirming in a trap and knowing it must be hit and put out of its’ misery but all your muscles amount to nothing while looking at it’s tiny frame. Can’t do it, bro, just can’t do it.
But not even at the idea of them doing it, but at the idea of anyone doing it
Not to take away from anything you just said, but it’s a different thing to claim you would do something in an impossible and hypothetical scenario, than to name a currently powerful person and say you’d make them dead if you could.
But not even at the idea of them doing it, but at the idea of anyone doing it
it’s only a matter of time before they start slapping ads on the Vegas sphere
I think we’re talking weeks or months here, not years.
Shotguns ftw
I believe the preferred phrase is “hack into the mainframe.”
But I can’t remember the last time I lived somewhere I could see actual stars…
I don’t understand the increasingly aggressive ads. When I see a company advertising heavily I get sketched out and assume they have subpar product.
