Elon Musk to take part in a project to place advertising in space?
Elon Musk slammed as SpaceX to launch satellite displaying billboard ads in space
ELON MUSK has come under fire from the scientific community after it has emerged a company wants SpaceX to launch a satellite broadcasting billboard ads from space. Express UK By SEBASTIAN KETTLEY, Aug 9, 2021
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The South African billionaire, who does not shy away from controversy, has a lot going on his plate right now. SpaceX is busy assembling and testing the Mars rocket Starship, Starlink is slowly expanding its mega-constellation Internet-beaming satellites and Tesla has recently rolled out the Model S Plaid. A new report has now revealed SpaceX is partnering with a Canadian startup to launch the world’s first space-based ad satellite.
According to Samuel Reid, CEO and co-founder of Geometric Energy Corporation (GEC), the company will pay SpaceX to launch an advertisement satellite into low-Earth orbit (LEO).
This satellite, called CubeSat, will boast a large screen full of purchasable pixels on one side where advertisers will bid to have their logos and products displayed.
Mr Reid told Insider: “There might be companies which want to depict their logo… or might end up being a bit more personal artistic.
“Maybe Coca-Cola and Pepsi will fight over their logo and reclaim over each other.
SpaceX will not play a direct role in the mission but rather act as the launch provider at some point in early 2022, using one of the company’s iconic Falcon 9 rockets.
Once in orbit, the CubeSat will use a selfie stick to broadcast its stream back to Earth via Twitch or YouTube.
Luckily, this means giant billboards are not about to fill up the night skies with advertising.
But the news has sparked an outcry on social media, with scientists and spaceflight enthusiasts alike criticising the move.
Comedy writer James Felton took to Twitter to vent his disapproval
He said: “Going to be difficult to pretend we’re not living in a sci-fi dystopian apocalypse when we take a moment to look up from the raging wildfires engulfing the planet to see the words Drink Pepsi.”
Game programmer and reporter Matthew Chapman said: “No. I draw the line here.
“Congress needs to ban Space Billboards before they become a thing.
“Already SpaceX satellites are creating a minefield of pollution in low-Earth orbit.”
And science writer Amy Shira Teitel said: “Coke vs Pepsi in space? What’s a little more horrendous light pollution between mega-advertising behemoths?
“Hoping this never, ever happens…”
To advertise on the pixel billboard, customers will have to pay using cryptocurrency tokens.
These will include digital tokens like ethereum, though GEC plans to accept dogecoin in the future.
Advertisers will get to select each individual pixel they want and fill them out with a colour of their choice.
Once they fill out enough pixels, a discernable image will emerge on the screen.
Mr Reid said: “I’m trying to achieve something that can democratize access to space and allow for decentralized participation………… https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1474414/elon-musk-slammed-spacex-launch-satellite-billboard-ads-in-space-scn
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So far, the nuclear lobby has bought the hearts and minds of governments, but has not won the hearts and minds of the people. In a propaganda war, as in all wars, truth is the first victim. But there are many journalists and others out there who will counter the lies of the nuclear industry.
Today, across the world, the nuclear industry is unpopular. It is particularly unpopular with women, and with indigenous peoples. It’s unpopular with those who have suffered from it, such as the veterans who attended nuclear bomb tests, and the ‘downwinders’ who suffered from those same tests. It’s unpopular with families afflicted with cancer from uranium mining. It’s unpopular with Ukrainians and Japanese whose lives have been disrupted by nuclear disasters.
he nuclear industry is also unpopular higher up in the social food chain. Many academics, economists, scientists, and doctors are concerned about the dangers of all kinds that are intrinsic to the nuclear industry.
So who does like the nuclear industry? – careerists in the nuclear industry, careerists in politics, academia, careerists in the Murdoch media, highly paid uranium workers, communities that exist only because of mining, – (the latter can’t really afford not to support it).
The nuclear industry, following in the footsteps of the tobacco and asbestos industries will now blanket its servant mass media, and any other possible avenues – such as education, and politics, – with propaganda.
The main focus of the nuclear lobby’s propaganda? This will now be CLIMATE ACTION .
They’re spending an awful lot of money on this. Despite this huge investment in deception, the nuclear lobby is not winning.
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