vandalizing the sky yamauchi ces cwru edu brian yamauchi writes enzo research canon oz au enzo liguori writes what s new in my opinion friday april washington dc space billboards is this one the spinoffs we were promised in science fiction writer robert heinlein published the man who sold the moon which involved a dispute over the sale of rights to the moon for use as billboard nasa has taken the firsteps toward this hideous vision of the future observers were startled this spring when a nasa launch vehicle arrived at the pad with schwarzenegger painted in huge block letters on the side of the booster rockets space marketing inc had arranged for the ad to promote arnold s latest movie well if you re going to get upset with this you might as well direct some of this moral outrage towards glavcosmos as well they pioneered this capitalist application of booster adverts long before nasa in fact you can all direct your ire at the proper target by ingoring nasa altogether the rocket is a commercial launch vechicle a conestoga flying a comet payload nasa is simply the primary customer i believe sdio has a small payload as well the advertising space was sold by the owners of the rocket who can do whatever they darn well please with it in addition these anonymous observers had no reason to be startled the deal made space news at least twice now space marketing is working with university of colorado and livermore engineers on a plan to place a mile long inflatable billboard in low earth orbit nasa would provide contractual launch services however since nasa bases its charge on seriously flawed cost estimates wn mar the taxpayers would bear most of the expense is nasa really supporting this junk and does anyone have any more details other than what was in the wn news blip how serious is this project is this just in the wild idea stage or does it have real funding i think its only fair to find that out before everyone starts having a hissy fit the fact that they bothered to use the conditional tense suggests that it has not yet been approved josh hopkins jbh uxa cso uiuc edu find a way or make one attributed to hannibal
