re vandalizing the sky in article apr locus com todd phad la locus com todd johnson writes as for advertising sure why not a nasa friend and i spent one drunken night figuring out just exactly how much gold mylar we d need to put the golden arches of a certain american fast food organization on the face of the moon fortunately we sobered up in the morning hmmm it actually isn t all that much is it like about million km if you think that sounds like a lot it s only a few tens of m per burger that said organization sold last year you d be best off with a reflective substance that could be sprayed thinly by an unmanned craft in lunar orbit or rather a large set of such craft if you can get a reasonable albedo it would be visible even at new moon since the moon itself is quite dark and bright at full moon you might have to abandon the colour though buy a cheap launch system design reusable moon lunar orbit unmanned spraying craft build said craft establish a lunar base to extract tio say for colour you d be better off with a sulphur compound i suppose and some sort of propellant and bob s your uncle i ll do it for say billion dollars plus changes of identity for me and all my loved ones delivery date can we get the fast food chain bidding against the fizzy drink vendors who else might be interested would they buy it given that it s a lot more expensive and not much more impressive than putting a large set of several km inflatable billboards in leo or in geo visible hours from your key growth market i ll do that for only bn and the changes of identity nick haines nickh cmu edu
