Who needs stars in a boring dystopia?

With any luck, hackers will turn them into penises

Oh cool, a marketing person played horizon zero dawn forbidden West and decided Vegas holograms were a great idea.

Anyone who's played Cyberpunk 2077 might remember the big ads projected into the sky above the city. It adds a really cool dystopian atmosphere to the game.

In real life it would be a nightmare come true.

It’s never too early to be an eco-terrorist

This is the first time I've seen the original tweet without Johnny Silverhand

Full terrorist might be a bit much, but I wouldn't be opposed to punching holes in packaging of the advertised products.

If the trend caught on at a large enough scale to just mildly vandalize space-billboard products, that shit would stop in a hurry.

...hell we should do that with regular billboards too - gimme my scenery back!

I don't understand the increasingly aggressive ads. When I see a company advertising heavily I get sketched out and assume they have subpar product.

If these are drones and someone does this irl I'm going to shoot them down

So what do you think is going on in the prime universe?

This is such an old repost I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet

This is such a stupid idea on so many levels but mostly because it's functionally impossible. The amount of satellites that would need to be launched in order to be able to form a visible image from the surface of the Earth would be prohibitively expensive and complicated to organise. They would all crash into each other within about 15 minutes - because orbits are inherently chaotic, and because of the ultra low altitude they'd have to maintain to make it remotely visible, they would burn up in the atmosphere almost instantly.

Basically no one with even a high school level education is actually proposing this.

This is basically just rage bate.

All the birds are dead in the future.

lauren is a great twitter follow

If they're some sort of holograms they wouldn't last a week. And I mean hackers making them into Friendly Windmills and the sort.

How was the original proposal supposed to work? The only space add concepts I've seen have been a camera recording a screen with adds in space, essentially using the earth as a fancy background.

I live in the city, so I never see stars anyway. I say bring on the Blade Runner vibes!

EDIT: Sorry if I offended anyone with a little joke. I'll stop trying to be funny.

Shotguns ftw

i remember reading about this idea on the paper in the 80s. i think the loggistics of launching such a large structure to orbit, just achieve bad PR would be have terrible ROI

Many people like to say that if they had a time machine they would go back and kill Hitler or some other valiant act of heroism that would prevent the death of millions.

Yet when faced with the real possibility of killing (or even just properly holding accountable - removal from society, redistribution of resources of) an individual now, who is already responsible for millions of deaths by virtue of withholding resources alone, never mind the active oppression and exploitation of billions that go in to maintaining the system that allows them their power, people suddenly become squeamish.

But not even at the idea of them doing it, but at the idea of anyone doing it (to the point of actively opposing it), and that's just so fucking frustrating, that people can't see the glaringly obvious dictators "of tomorrow", who already literally control everything and are actively getting away with a lot shit directly out of the fascist playbook today, how anyone can still deny it to themselves just blows my mind.

We're never going to get a better future as long as so many people refuse to accept that we're never going to be given it by those living the high life off of our backs.

I had the very same gut response as Lauren.

But the Michelin balloon tho

it's only a matter of time before they start slapping ads on the Vegas sphere

I believe the preferred phrase is "hack into the mainframe."

But I can't remember the last time I lived somewhere I could see actual stars...

DItto.

I'll start hunting ad executives for sport.

I guess 2015 came late

It's not about the money, it's about sending a message.

If I'm ever trying to get a look at my beloved Alberio and I see a fucking coca cola can, I'm skipping "terrorist" and jumping straight to "suicide bomber"

Implying the places where that would happen have any kind of night view...

death to those fucking soulless bastards

Oh yeah, we are monitored all the time, we have ai cameras everywhere, all our devices have backdoors, big companies know everything about us, goverments support these companies, we are constantly being manipulated through the media, but ads in the sky is where I draw the line. Fuck off.