![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Jul. 22nd, 2009
As mentioned previously, the first US Space Shuttle launch was my generation’s version of the moon landing. Not quite as spectacular, but still inspiring.
And Rush – who just happened to be my favorite band at the time, and is just the sort of rock band you would expect to have pals in NASA – tells that story better than me.
The NASA footage and radio chatter helps loads, obviously.
Super-science mingles with the bright stuff of dreams,
This is dF
And Rush – who just happened to be my favorite band at the time, and is just the sort of rock band you would expect to have pals in NASA – tells that story better than me.
The NASA footage and radio chatter helps loads, obviously.
Super-science mingles with the bright stuff of dreams,
This is dF
BLACK HOLE SUN
Jul. 22nd, 2009 04:16 pmThis morning’s big local news story in Hong Kong is, of course, the longest solar eclipse of the 21st century.
I didn’t see it, no. We only got a partial in HK. And it was over by the time I got up.
FUN FACT: I’ve never seen a solar or lunar eclipse. Wrong place, wrong time, bad weather, whatever. Sure, I could have woken up early to see this one. But I really needed the sleep, you see.
So I’ll watch it on TV as usual and wait for 2132.
Invisible sun,
This is dF
I didn’t see it, no. We only got a partial in HK. And it was over by the time I got up.
FUN FACT: I’ve never seen a solar or lunar eclipse. Wrong place, wrong time, bad weather, whatever. Sure, I could have woken up early to see this one. But I really needed the sleep, you see.
So I’ll watch it on TV as usual and wait for 2132.
Invisible sun,
This is dF
THIS SPACE FOR RENT
Jul. 22nd, 2009 04:39 pmITEM [via Neatorama]: You knew this was coming, didn’t you?
How will they do it? “Shadow Shaping Technology” that basically involves robots carving logos in the moondust, and when the light hits just the right angle ... then the moon is brought to you by Starbucks or OfficeMax or something.
Minimum bids start at $46,000.
Both the concept and the pricing – as well as Rolling Rock’s promise to project its logo on the moon using frickin’ lasers turning out to be a joke – make me reasonably sure this is a hoax or some viral marketing stunt. (It was definitely a Tick episode.)
Even if it’s real, of course it will fail. So I’m not too worried about it. For now.
On the other hand, you KNOW someone will do this one day. And it won’t be Chairface Chippendale.
I’ll shoot the moon,
This is dF
Never in the history of advertising has the possibility of penetrating every market on Earth, reaching every person on the planet, and touching them at emotional level only possible with the beauty of the moon on a starlit night, been made available. Twelve billion eyeballs looking at your logo in the sky for several days every month for the next several thousand years.
How will they do it? “Shadow Shaping Technology” that basically involves robots carving logos in the moondust, and when the light hits just the right angle ... then the moon is brought to you by Starbucks or OfficeMax or something.
Minimum bids start at $46,000.
Both the concept and the pricing – as well as Rolling Rock’s promise to project its logo on the moon using frickin’ lasers turning out to be a joke – make me reasonably sure this is a hoax or some viral marketing stunt. (It was definitely a Tick episode.)
Even if it’s real, of course it will fail. So I’m not too worried about it. For now.
On the other hand, you KNOW someone will do this one day. And it won’t be Chairface Chippendale.
I’ll shoot the moon,
This is dF
