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The original was posted on /r/aboringdystopia by /u/lowen0005 on 2023-10-03 03:28:53.
How was the original proposal supposed to work? The only space add concepts I've seen have been a camera recording a screen with adds in space, essentially using the earth as a fancy background.
50 cubesats are planned. Each satellite would unfurl a 32 square meter sail that reflects the sun. Each sat forms a pixel and by getting into the right direction they can show s logo. Because it needs the sun to work it would only work at sunset over the target city.
Hmm, 50 pixels in one color for a few minutes for one day for a few minutes seems like little return for a lot of work. Let's hope it remains economicaly infeasible. Because space treaties for anything takes forever.
Gonna' have to see your source on this one.
Idk, but they can do this now with drones.
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
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.
Shotguns ftw
I had the very same gut response as Lauren.
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.
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...
But the Michelin balloon tho
I guess 2015 came late