Selling the Moon - It's been reported that Google is sponsoring a contest for private firms to send a rover to the moon. All well and good, except one company plans to take this technology to an absurd end - to advertise on the moon. I don't know about you, but if I look up at night and see 'Drink Coke' or something like it writ large in lunar dust, I will absolutely revolt. And I am talking the lit torches, barrels of feathers, and hot tar at the ready kind of revolt. So watch out, You!
Selling Out Reform - The media seem to have turned on President Obama's Health Care Reform Effort. I guess all it takes are a few 'Blue-Dog' Democrats (whatever the hell kind of pooches they are) to ignite a NIMBY sort of 'who's gonna pay for it' stalemate masquerading as a debate, and the media change tune. Of course, taking the controversial - but popular- position sells, so what else could we expect? More, I'd hoped ...
Selling the Longest Goodbye - If the media can't hold their water on Health Care Reform, why should we expect them to refrain from capitalizing on tragedy more than is necessary (from a newsworthiness perspective). Long after his actual death, Michael Jackson remains a headliner in the news. The press is still pondering whether his death was an accident or murder. I guess it couldn't be hoped that such an out-sized individual as Mr. Jackson be allowed to go quietly and with a modicum of dignity, but, this is beyond-the-pale (sorry).
Monday, Begone! Onwards to a better (or saner) rest of the week (please)...
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I'll join you!
And Moon Publicity, LLC
(West Valley City, UT 84128
(801) 542-9975) is only a day's drive away. How convenient. Damn, where'd I leave that pitch fork?
Advertising on the moon reminds a Heinlein novel "The Man Who Sold The Moon"...
Harriman tackles his problems in stages. He knows the technical problems are solvable, given the right talent. The financial problems are tougher. He resorts to exploiting rivalries between commercial and political entities. He bluffs that he has been offered a large sum to turn the Moon into a massive billboard using a rocket which scatters black dust on the surface in patterns[1]. To the owner of the "Moka-Cola" company he implies that the culprit is the rival soft drink maker "6+". To a freedom-loving associate, he suggests that the Russians may be capable of printing the hammer and sickle across the face of the Moon if they get a lead in rocket technology.
Mmmmmm...6+
Ah. That's a wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon
That Heinlein, way ahead of his time - or perhaps the good folks at Moon Publicity, LLC, are just avid readers of Golden Age Science Fiction. Excellent spot, there oldiron!
Could someone "patent" the current natural features of the moon?
Or get whatever gathering of relevant human beings (UN) to declare scared and unchangeable the image of the moon? That heavenly disk - the one that we've been staring at for somewhere between 6,000 and 3,000,000 years (take your pick) - can we get it protected? Declared an "Unworldly" Heritage Site?
"...Declared an "Unworldly" Heritage Site?" - I'd vote for that, or protest for it, or pledge on the internet. Whatever it takes, before it's too late...
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