Company Offers to Carve Advertisements on the Surface of the Moon

worst idea ever.

Yes, except this time I'll get the job finished.

Read the section in the bottom disclaimer regarding the "identified challenges" and the section on "social challenges." This guy thinks that 1) his project can free up tax dollars for humanitarian aid and 2) can save mankind... when we all know he's just trying make a sleazy screw-all living by turning the moon into a giant billboard!

That's not even the sad part. What's REALLY sad is that he thinks he can actually do this and that he actually spent to time to have a video made(that he probably funded).

Retarded

Do you have to pay for the whole ad when the moon isn't full?

eviv Zorglub!

French speaking comics readers will understand ;)

Evil is a foot!

Spoooooooooon

Besides the obvious technical hurdles and sheer hubris of it all, the real reason that this will fail is because even the biggest, evillest corporations know to avoid marketing schemes with such obvious potential for consumer backlash.

I know, many marketing plans have spurred consumer backlash, but I would submit that the potential for backlash in those cases was not as obvious and extreme as this one is.

Either a hoax or delusional, straitjacket stupidity.

The moon should be for everyone, not just Pepsi or whomever.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I will cry if I ever have to look up at the moon and see the natural beauty of it destroyed by such lunacy

Cha

@relright. Only a lunatic would use such a pun!

Heinlein should have patented the idea when he had it - then nobody would be able to do it.

That would be completely despicable. Whatever company would do that I would actually consider burning down. I seriously hope this is a joke. Mind blowingly disgusting....

Horrible, horrible idea. I thought "Moonvertising" was going to consist of ads projected by laser onto the lunar surface (The phase of the Moon would be somewhat irrelevant) --- and, although this would do no permanent damage, even that seemed like a pretty stoopit idea.

it might as well be permenant, there's no wind up there to make it go away.

Moonvertising doesn't seem so bad ... ;)

Hahaha fantastic Alex! I'm sold!

I'm reminded of the Family Guy episode where Ted Turner (I believe) states that he "colorized the moon". But seriously, this is screwed up. Like, get my bat with a nail driven through it screwed up.

Wait, who exactly said we'd never have bacon-flavored vodka? Wasn't me.

Looks like a simple publicity stunt and nothing more. Come on guys, don't let it get to you. The guy's simply trying to get some free name recognition.

Surely it can't be feasible. The area required would be enormous for a few robots to cover. Add to that that the moons terrain over such a distance will make it also prohibitive.