Geostationary Banana Over Texas.

By Miss Cellania in Art on Dec 29, 2006 at 5:02 pm

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The Geostationary Banana Over Texas project calls itself “an art intervention” and is scheduled for launch in August of 2008. The 300 meter banana will be constructed of bamboo and paper and filled with helium. It will float at 30 to 50 km above the state of Texas, which will put it on the line between Earth’s atmosphere and space. From the ground, the banana will be visible and recognizable day and night all over Texas. Will this project ever get off the ground, or will there be slip-ups? Link


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  1. edley
    Dec 29th, 2006 at 6:07 pm

    damn canadians!!
    float that banana in your own country!!

  2. Kerozene
    Dec 29th, 2006 at 8:31 pm

    Glad I don’t live in texas. I would be pissed. You can clutter up the landscape to force me to look at billboards, you can cluttter up the internet, tv, and newspaper to force me to look at ads. BUT DONT CLUTTER MY SKY. Its the last place we’re free to look and dream. I don’t want to look at a banana, when I look up.

    I can see it now:

    Enjoying a romantic evening under the stars the couple gazed outwards to the moon….and to the giant floating banana.
    “isn’t it a beautiful night, Susan?” asked Joe.
    “The giant banana looks just lovely, Joe. You can almost smell it.” murmered Susan.

  3. aware
    Dec 29th, 2006 at 8:48 pm

    haha, “slip-ups.”

  4. anita
    Dec 30th, 2006 at 12:53 am

    If this works, how many companies will start using this approach for advertisements? We’ll have a sky full of blow-up pizzas, floating video screens, soda cans, and 800 ft tall busty mud splattered cheerleaders (or whatever other gimmick the beer manufacturers devise).

  5. shawn bell
    Dec 30th, 2006 at 2:58 am

    i live in texas, and personally i would love to look up lovingly at a giant banana.

  6. úrsula
    Dec 30th, 2006 at 6:30 am

    what about the aliens?

  7. MisterTrilby
    Dec 30th, 2006 at 7:57 am

    “You can clutter up the landscape to force me to look at billboards, you can cluttter up the internet, tv, and newspaper to force me to look at ads. BUT DONT CLUTTER MY SKY.”

    You’ve got it backwards. You should be angry that your world is already cluttered with ads. Advertising is graffiti. Giant floating bananas are art.

  8. Denita TwoDragons
    Dec 30th, 2006 at 2:28 pm

    Shawn Bell–I also live in Texas, and I find the idea abhorrent. I didn’t move out to the country just to spend the rest of my days staring at a ludicrous piece of skyborn oversize produce. This ain’t art, it’s just dumb.

    They can put that stupid thing in the airspace over their OWN damn country, thanks.

    –TwoDragons

  9. david
    Dec 30th, 2006 at 4:01 pm

    I also live in texas and i think it will be cool but do we really want a giant floating thing in the sky. Thats a perfect opertunity for a country to nuke us Im not saying canada is but what about in the future when we grow used to things like that

  10. Brian
    Jan 2nd, 2007 at 12:28 pm

    the guncrazy texans will probably shoot it down anyways

  11. Elly
    Jan 2nd, 2007 at 2:06 pm

    I just hope this doesn’t become a form of advertisement.

  12. Michael
    Jan 5th, 2007 at 3:08 pm

    So . . . am I completely off-base in thinking the whole thing might be a giant farce?

  13. Daniel S
    Jan 9th, 2007 at 5:21 pm

    ca l’a aucun bon sens. Au Canada on a donné 25000 dollards pour cette chose inutile. Le gouvernement finance des chôses inutiles. Je suis révolté en …

  14. lysane
    Jan 10th, 2007 at 11:25 pm

    mymy… a weird and useless thing huh… anyway… You Texans, i hope you will enjoy it… lol

  15. andrew swanger
    Feb 4th, 2007 at 9:29 am

    this is by far one of the best things that i have ever seen or heard of in my 27 years of living. i live in pa and intend to come to texas to see this magnificent piece of art work. living in pa, i want to launch a ‘kumquat over pa.”

  16. Kevin
    Feb 7th, 2007 at 7:08 pm

    The whole banana thing is stupid, its some crack -headed artist who is trying to make a statement but he just ends up making all of us canadians look like retards. It will be even worse if it crashes because then we will look like incompetent retards.


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