Living in one of those hyper virtual/augmented reality distopian societies you see in TV shows and movies where everything around you is an ad becomes much more real if they start using the sky to project ads....
Pepsi Plans to Project a Giant Ad in the Night Sky Using Cubesats
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Re: Pepsi Plans to Project a Giant Ad in the Night Sky Using Cubesats
#12This is madness. Few years back Airbus was experimenting with electroluminescent paint on planes for similar reasons - https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170627006378/en/Wor...
That can actually be beautiful.
A bit TRON like, but I'd say it'd be insanely cool to board a plane that does that.
Re: Pepsi Plans to Project a Giant Ad in the Night Sky Using Cubesats
#13How’s that even supposed to work? I call bullshit.
I call it a nice way to make a lot of money disappear without actually delivering a useful thing.
You'd need to fly a huge fleet of precisely controlled cubesats in tight formation without the control jets of one interfering with the others while they are close enough to provide adequate pixel density from the surface. Their orbit should be high enough that they cross the sky in a pace slow enough to be seen. At 400 Km it's already quick.
I once did the math that a Mylar balloon with 1 degree (the same apparent size of the moon) would need to be about one kilometer wide at a 110 km orbit. It'd weight ~30 tons at launch, without any added vehicle (an ion drive could keep it up for a longer time, until it gets punctured enough to deflate). That was about the maximum payload to LEO that the largest launcher of the time could handle.
Re: Pepsi Plans to Project a Giant Ad in the Night Sky Using Cubesats
#14If they do, every major shareholder and member of the board of directors of Pepsi should have a permanent array of drones following them, with projectors beaming ads wherever they look. At minimum.
They probably already use smart phones. ba dum tiss