re space marketing would be wonderfull in article c w t fph cunews carleton ca 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 abomination n loathing odious or degrading habit or act an object of disgust oxford concise dictionary maybe you don t mind having every part of your life saturated with commercials but many of us loathe it it s a moot point step out of your door go anywhere except possibly your mailbox you will be subject to some ad agency s poor taste 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 while i m sure sagan considers it sacrilegious that wouldn t be because of his doubtfull credibility as an astronomer modern ground based visible light astronomy what these proposed orbiting billboards would upset is already a dying field the opacity and distortions caused by the atmosphere itself have driven most of the field to use radio far infrared or space based telescopes in any case a bright point of light passing through the field doesn t ruin observations if that were the case the thousands of existing satellites would have already done so satelliets might not seem so bright to the eyes but as far as astronomy is concerned they are extremely bright frank crary cu boulder
