no re space marketing would be wonderfull wcsbeau superior carleton ca opirg writes i don t think that idea means what you think it does having everyone on earth subject to some ad agency s poor taste is an abomination well we already suffer from street hoardings if you don t watch tv you are free of commercials there but if you want to go from a to b you cannot escape beer ads us loathe it i d rather not have the beauty of the night sky always marred by a giant billboard and i ll bet the idea is virtually sacrilegious to an astronomer like sagan i think the right time to stop this proposal is now if this idea goes through it s the thin end of the wedge soon companies will be doing larger and more permanant billboards in the sky i wouldn t want a world a few decades from now when the sky looks like las vegas that would really make me sad coca cola company will want to paint the moon red and white well if not this moon then a moon of jupiter microscum will want to name a galaxy microscum galaxy where do we draw the line historically mankind is not very good at drawing fine lines i m normally extremely enthusiastic about all forms of resource allocation for space research i think it s the most important investment possible for mankind in the long run but this is not the way to get the money ans ajay shah ajayshah rcf usc edu
