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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by lopis on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @03:24AM (#38260524)
Right. First thing will be bright billboards in space illuminating our night sky.
Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by steve1977 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @04:42AM (#38261108)
Will you stop giving them ideas please?
Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by bell-cot on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @05:27AM (#38261491)
Sorry, but that idea has been kicking around SF since at least the 1950's.
Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by adhesive_wombat on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @05:41AM (#38261591)
Red Dwarf called it. "Coke Adds Life" written in supernovae.
Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by amelius on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @06:05AM (#38261743)
If advertisers could turn the Moon into a giant Pepsi logo, they would definitely do it.
Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by jjoonathan on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:38AM (#38265644)
Imagine a Pepsi-sponsored replacement of the Kardashev scale: how big is the biggest Pepsi logo? Size of a person / building / city /continent / planet / galaxy / universe. Has consumerism truly run its course until a Pepsi logo has been carved into the CMBR?
Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by spyder on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:43AM (#38265737)
A small prototype was already built in Las Vegas, they can even change the "logos" on it :)
Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by tambourine_man on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @06:29AM (#38261967)
That’s a scary thought
Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by oblio on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @08:33AM (#38263075)
Until we have enough space debris that we can leaving our planet impossible. A sort of Great Space Garbage Patch, if you will.
Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by omegadynamics on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @10:07AM (#38264142)
Kids love to surf!