Still, it's scary (reminds me of the parody of Joyce Kilmer's "Trees":
"I think that I shall never see/A billboard lovely as a tree/Indeed,
unless the billboards fall/I'll never see a tree at all").
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/03/11/russia.space.ap/index.html
"MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Orion, the Big Dipper and Andromeda could be
joined in the heavens by ads for soft drinks and cigarettes if a
Russian inventor's device catches on.
"Alexander Lavrynov, a spacecraft designer, said he has patented a
device for putting advertising into space that would be seen from
Earth, Interfax news agency reported Wednesday.
"'Space commercials could embrace huge areas and a colossal number of
consumers,' he said. 'This would literally be intercontinental
coverage.'
"He said the satellites would be visible in the night sky by employing
sunlight reflectors, with multiple satellites linked together to create
a message large enough to be seen.
"'People would be able to see writing in the skies from the Earth no
worse than they see the stars,' he said."
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my LiveJournal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/tomfodw/
"I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never thought I'd
see the last." - Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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