Japanese startup lands $90 million to put a billboard on the moon — Video at site

Digital Trends ^ | December 18, 2017 2:48 pm | By Luke Dormehl

[Clutch Martin]

Hmmm...

How about packaged food for the starving with the company logo on it?

[dragnet2]

How screwed up is this? People trying to peddle stuff is jammed down our throats 24/7, on line, TV, radio, bill boards and on and on....And one day ya look up at the lunar surface to find yet another tacky gaudy commercial?

Humans are really good at eff’ing things up.

[Dr. Sivana]

Chesterton once wrote an essay about some primitive coming unto a place like New York City or London in the early 20th Century, and that he would get off the boat and see huge lit up signs the likes of which he had never seen, only to find out that the biggest most garish messages are advertisements for a beverage or patent medicine, and being quite disappointed.

Part of me is saddened that if someone projects an ad on the moon visible from earth, that there would be NO PLACE TO GET AWAY FROM ADVERTISING.

[seawolf101]

[njslim]

Resolution at lunar distance is over 1/2 mile

That is a feature would have to be over 1/2 mile to be
visible and discernible from earth

[SauronOfMordor]

The moon has an advantage: it is expensive to get to.

The doom of a mall in the US begins when it gets public transportation access from the nearest “inner city”

[Deaf Smith]

Brawndo. It’s got electrolytes1

[dfwgator]

[COBOL2Java]

Why stop with the moon?

[Rastus]

If a lightbulb goes out, call Ralph Cramden.

[SunkenCiv]

“Human beings aren’t heading to the stars to become poor,” Takeshi Hakamada, chief executive officer of iSpace, said at a recent press event in Tokyo.

I admire that spirit, but I wouldn't object to exiling anyone who wants a socialist state to one of the asteroids. Thanks Swordmaker.