vandalizing the sky dale sez mr hathaway s post is right on the money if a little lengthy in short an orbiting billboard would be trash in the same way that a billboard on the earth is trash billboards make a place look trashy that is why there are laws in many places prohibiting their use the light pollution complaints are mainly an attempt to find some tangible reason to be against orbiting billboards because people don t feel morally justified to complain on the grounds that these things would defile the beauty of the sky i don t buy it if the things had no value at all people wouldn t spend money to make them so their lack of value is just your opinion not an actual fact which is neither a philisophical or legal basis for prohibiting them on the other hand i lived in oakbrook il for a while where zoning laws prohibit billboards as you mention above i think it was a fine law despite it s contradictory basis i would guess that the best legal and moral basis for protest would be violation of private property i bought this house out in the boondocks specifically to enjoy my hobby amateur astronomy now this billboard has made that investment worthless so i want the price of the property in damages it wouldn t take too many succesful cases like that to make bill sats prohibitively expensive tommy mac tom mcwilliams wk they communicated with the communists tm ibm cl msu edu hm and pacified the pacifists timbuk
