I love it

  • Nusm
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    82 years ago

    Some things just need to be said.

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃
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      42 years ago

      When people got rich enough that the upper-middle class can afford to hire 5 airplanes instead of 1…

  • YⓄ乙
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    72 years ago

    You’re underestimating the number of people with money and lots of time in their hand. There are people who dont have to do 9-5 to pay rent or mortgage. They were born with fuck you money.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 years ago

    oh its 5 planes? I thought this was some kind of laser that somehow activated the sky’s icecrystals like … sigh … "chem"trails. (they are not ‘chem’ trails, they are atmospheric disturbances caused by planes)

    couldn’t drones do this?

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      can prob have a bunch of drones to do it but the visibility could be a problem

      works best in night sky i think

    • Decoy321
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      2 years ago

      Most of them are 5 planes. But you could do this with one plane “printing” out 5 rows of clouds. It could be a drone printing them out very close, or a manned plane further away.

      It could also be photoshop.

      • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃
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        52 years ago

        If it’s a half hour job, 5 planes x $200/hr (conservatively high) x 1/2 hour = maybe $500… And very likely by the company that owns them to get people to talk about it.

        Actually a really cheap ad in that case. I’d rather something funny in the sky than yet another annoying ad (costing way more wasted money) on TV…

        • @[email protected]
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          You realize Google is a thing, correct?

          Skytyping can cost more than regular skywriting, starting at $25,000. Skytyping uses five planes instead of one, but it’s a more accurate form of aerial advertising that ensures legibility. A personal skywriting message can cost upwards of $6,000–$8,000, depending on where the few skywriting planes are located at the time you want the message written. Skywriting rates are generally charged per flight hour. A one-hour flight over a major city can cost anywhere from $500 to $5,000.

          Again, very few non fuck you money are spending 5k at the low end on deeze nuts. Conservativly high 🤦‍♂️

          • @[email protected]
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            22 years ago

            You’re not wrong, but think of the number of people this brought joy to.

            Is it wasteful? Sure. Is it a bit of a face slap to people living paycheck to paycheck, assuming they’re even that well off? Sure. But is it a net negative? Who can say? Unlike most fuck-you-money splurges, this one probably at least lightened some people’s days for a moment, and that’s not nothing.

    • Nusm
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      2 years ago

      “Hey man, did you see that in the sky yesterday?”

      “What?”

      “Deez nutz.”