Company Offers to Carve Advertisements on the Surface of the Moon

1. kid_icarus
   July 20th, 2009 at 1:49 pm

   worst idea ever.

2. Chairface Chippendale
   July 20th, 2009 at 2:00 pm

   Yes, except this time I'll get the job finished.

3. Jeff234345
   July 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).

4. Gail Pink
   July 20th, 2009 at 2:02 pm

   Retarded

5. JOhn R,
   July 20th, 2009 at 2:26 pm

   Do you have to pay for the whole ad when the moon isn't full?

6. Christophe
   July 20th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

   eviv Zorglub!

   French speaking comics readers will understand

7. Allivymar
   July 20th, 2009 at 3:03 pm

   Evil is a foot!

   Spoooooooooon

8. Kev
   July 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.

9. Mytake
   July 20th, 2009 at 4:04 pm

   Either a hoax or delusional, straitjacket stupidity.

10. Ember
    July 20th, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    The moon should be for everyone, not just Pepsi or whomever.

11. noah
    July 20th, 2009 at 6:29 pm

    BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

12. relright
    July 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

13. SenorMysterioso
    July 20th, 2009 at 7:40 pm

    Cha

14. Andrewc
    July 20th, 2009 at 9:23 pm

    @relright. Only a lunatic would use such a pun!

15. Chakolate
    July 20th, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    Heinlein should have patented the idea when he had it - then nobody would be able to do it.

16. Maus
    July 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....

17. Nicholas Dollak
    July 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.

18. Andrewc
    July 21st, 2009 at 12:04 am

    it might as well be permenant, there's no wind up there to make it go away.

19. Alex
    July 21st, 2009 at 1:14 am

    

    Moonvertising doesn't seem so bad ...

20. Mytake
    July 21st, 2009 at 1:44 am

    Hahaha fantastic Alex! I'm sold!

21. Briannana
    July 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.

22. jenjen
    July 21st, 2009 at 1:32 pm

    Wait, who exactly said we'd never have bacon-flavored vodka? Wasn't me.

23. Justin
    July 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.

24. Miss MoonMoney
    August 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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