Re: SPACE: Lunar Billboard?
Kennita Watson (kwatson@netcom.com)
Fri, 27 Dec 1996 12:48:23 -0800
>Moon advertisment space for rent? Check out alt.chrome.the.moon (_not_
>affiliated with alt.pave.the.earth). Seriously though, with von-Neumann
>probes this should be easy to do, using synchronously movable mirrors
>one might even do animation.
>
I think this is a waste of time. The moon makes a fine light, but it
isn't big enough to print anything on that you could read. All screwing
with it would likely do is dim the light and piss people off. I certainly
know that if you dimmed the moon _I'd_ be pissed off. I'm also not
prepared to guarantee that there aren't species that depend on the moon
being just the way it is for their survival -- and for me that would be
the last straw. How many species might not be able to mate if there were
less light, or might all be eaten if there were more, or couldn't see their
food if the light were a different color, or whatever?
Go play your games with the moon over a manmade planet.
Kennita
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