2024-12-15 ┃ edited ┃ RE: futurebird
If you don't think there are people who'd want to plaster the moon with ads we have not been living through the same era of history.
"Space environmentalism" can seem overly precious and anti-technology. But, I'm more inclined to be sympathetic to such reservations since my confidence in the ability of humans to plan for the future, or understand what is and isn't of value is deeply shaken.
I have trust issues.
And I don't want to look up and see a QR code in the night sky. #ads
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2024-12-15 JoshuaACNewman ┃ 1🔗
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@futurebird Hell, if they ever find a way to insert advertisements into people's REM sleep, you know they'll do it.
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Oh, agreed.
Far side + 15 degrees: reserved for astronomical observatories. All signals back to earth to go via cable to the hither side. As silent and undisturbed as possible on […]
@futurebird Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov both basically saw that coming back in the 1950s. (In the Asimov story, "Buy Jupiter", it was extraterrestrials buying the ad rights to a sort of […]
2024-12-15 quadrivial ┃ 1🔗 3#️
@futurebird I do not want to minimize your concern because I agree with you. And yet my brain immediately went to this image. Apologies.
#thetick #cartoons #moon
@futurebird I have been saying this for probably thirty years, first as a joke, then as sardonic commentary, now exactly as you do here: a dire warning/personal-fear.
@futurebird there’s literally an electric car orbiting the sun now. 😢
@futurebird A huge ditto. Those blasted satellites are bad enough.
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