• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
    11·
    1 year ago

    This is such a stupid idea on so many levels but mostly because it’s functionally impossible. The amount of satellites that would need to be launched in order to be able to form a visible image from the surface of the Earth would be prohibitively expensive and complicated to organise. They would all crash into each other within about 15 minutes - because orbits are inherently chaotic, and because of the ultra low altitude they’d have to maintain to make it remotely visible, they would burn up in the atmosphere almost instantly.

    Basically no one with even a high school level education is actually proposing this.

    This is basically just rage bate.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 year ago

      Who said anything about satellites? That looks more like bat-signal-style projections against the clouds

      • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, and we already have drone lightshows

        It would especially be effective in cities, with a high density of people. And the base cost would not be that large compared to normal advertising spots, which already go for a lot of money.

        Basically, if it was legal, it would have already been done.