Company Offers to Carve Advertisements on the Surface of the Moon

By John Farrier in Science & Tech on Jul 20, 2009 at 1:15 pm

This start-up proposes to use robots to carve the lunar surface dust into patterns that could serve as advertisements. I’m skeptical due to the sheer scale of the task — the number of robots necessary over a very long period of time. Still, people said that we’d never have bacon flavored vodka, but scientists and engineers overcame the obstacles. Anyway, we know from an episode of The Tick that it can be done.

Link via Popular Science

Tags: advertisements, moon, Moon Publicity, robots

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kid_icarus
Jul 20th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
worst idea ever.
Chairface Chippendale
Jul 20th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Yes, except this time I’ll get the job finished.
Jeff234345
Jul 20th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
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).
Gail Pink
Jul 20th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Retarded
JOhn R,
Jul 20th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Do you have to pay for the whole ad when the moon isn’t full?
Christophe
Jul 20th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
eviv Zorglub!

French speaking comics readers will understand
Allivymar
Jul 20th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Evil is a foot!

Spoooooooooon
Kev
Jul 20th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
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.
Mytake
Jul 20th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Either a hoax or delusional, straitjacket stupidity.
Ember
Jul 20th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
The moon should be for everyone, not just Pepsi or whomever.
noah
Jul 20th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
relright
Jul 20th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
I will cry if I ever have to look up at the moon and see the natural beauty of it destroyed by such lunacy
SenorMysterioso
Jul 20th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Cha
Andrewc
Jul 20th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
@relright. Only a lunatic would use such a pun!
Chakolate
Jul 20th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Heinlein should have patented the idea when he had it – then nobody would be able to do it.
Maus
Jul 20th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
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….
Nicholas Dollak
Jul 20th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
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.
Andrewc
Jul 21st, 2009 at 12:04 am
it might as well be permenant, there’s no wind up there to make it go away.
Alex
Jul 21st, 2009 at 1:14 am

Moonvertising doesn’t seem so bad …
Mytake
Jul 21st, 2009 at 1:44 am
Hahaha fantastic Alex! I’m sold!
Briannana
Jul 21st, 2009 at 8:30 am
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.
jenjen
Jul 21st, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Wait, who exactly said we’d never have bacon-flavored vodka? Wasn’t me.
Justin
Jul 21st, 2009 at 6:55 pm
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.
Miss MoonMoney
Aug 11th, 2009 at 7:31 am
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.

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