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FOR SALE: Space Ads (out of this world advertising)

by max5ty
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Imagine sitting on the front porch swing on a cool summer night. A breeze slightly blowing in off the ocean...your lover sitting close beside you...

"oh look," she whispers, "an ad for Coke."

"Where?" You ask. "Right there next to Jupitar, next to the milky way and below the big dipper," she quietly whispers as she points upward...

You spot it. There it is, out on the horizon. An ad for Coke in outer space.

"Wow!" you shriek, "and look over there at all those shooting stars!"

"You're silly," your girlfriend says as she playfully nudges you, "That's space balls dropped from ALE's satellite they launched in 2019."

"Amazing," you quietly say... "Seems like just yesterday I remember sitting in the living room with my whole family watching the first man walk on the moon, now we're sitting here looking at ads in space."

What will they think of next you silently wonder...

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/20...ke-off-in-2022
#ads #advertising #sale #space #world
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  • Profile picture of the author jimbo13
    Thanks Maxt5y

    When Coca Cola UK saw this in 1999, they had the idea of using similar technology to project the Coca Cola Logo onto the first full moon of the millenium for all the world to see.

    The building is The UK Houses of Parliament just incase you are not familiar with it.

    The concept has been copied a few times now but this was the original - in the UK at least, I'm sure Marketing savvy US had this sort of thing going on much earlier.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...-fife-51054027

    Apparently the surface of the moon is not reflective though plus 240,000 miles of projection has a few issues.

    With smaller and smaller spacecraft going up now, lasers can be projected from a much closer distance so you just know it will happen one day once they figure out the reflective part and scale up.

    It is an Engineering Degree conundrum at some British Universities so I suppose some US Universities set the same problem for fun too.

    Dan
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    • Profile picture of the author max5ty
      Originally Posted by jimbo13 View Post

      Thanks Maxt5y

      When Coca Cola UK saw this in 1999, they had the idea of using similar technology to project the Coca Cola Logo onto the first full moon of the millenium for all the world to see.

      The building is The UK Houses of Parliament just incase you are not familiar with it.

      The concept has been copied a few times now but this was the original - in the UK at least, I'm sure Marketing savvy US had this sort of thing going on much earlier.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...-fife-51054027

      Apparently the surface of the moon is not reflective though plus 240,000 miles of projection has a few issues.

      With smaller and smaller spacecraft going up now, lasers can be projected from a much closer distance so you just know it will happen one day once they figure out the reflective part and scale up.

      It is an Engineering Degree conundrum at some British Universities so I suppose some US Universities set the same problem for fun too.

      Dan
      Interesting...hadn't read about the thing in 1999.

      Thanks for your comment.

      Mostly when I did this post, I was commenting on a story I had seen about SpaceX...but forgot to put the link...

      https://www.businessinsider.com/spac...urrency-2021-7
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