Jul 20 2009Wrong: Creating Advertisements On The Moon
The natural satellite burglars over at Moon Publicity want to create ads on the moon by using robots that can draw in the dust. The whole idea has several problems. 1. robots and 2. ADVERTISING ON THE MOON. Like the aliens don't already hate us enough.
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- It's one giant leap for robot-kind. New Shadow Shaping technology creates images on the Moon that can be seen from Earth. Robots are used to create several small ridges in the lunar dust over large areas that capture shadows and shape them to form logos, domains names, memorials or even portraits. Talk about the Man in the Moon! You can even carve your initials in a heart to impress your sweetheart.
As outerspace-y as I am, I just can't approve of etching a bunch of shit in the moon. I mean, it's like a landmark, you know? That would be like giving the Washington Monument a giant pair of balls, which, okay that would be cool.
Idiots Want Robots to Draw Ads On the Moon's Surface [gizmodo]
Thanks to Julian, who agrees GEEKOLOGIE.COM is pretty much the only thing cool enough to belong on the moon.
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Reader Comments
1. Que - July 20, 2009 10:46 AM
Que no robots.
2. Pat - July 20, 2009 10:49 AM
Phht! What are they gonna do next? Built a theme park there?
3. Adra - July 20, 2009 10:50 AM
Not until they have harvested the moon whales.
4. Dani - July 20, 2009 10:51 AM
What a load of shit.
5. Ste - July 20, 2009 10:52 AM
Im totally gonna carve a picture of the moon on the moon.
6. Enflamed - July 20, 2009 10:55 AM
WE'RE WHALERS ON THE MOON! I would totally pay mad money to etch a moon whaler on the moon so all humanity can know, all is going according to plan. Soon, we will have a moon theme park...yess......
7. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 20, 2009 10:59 AM
Wasn't this a plot line for The Tick?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairface_Chippendale
8. catch22 - July 20, 2009 11:00 AM
start boycotting now before the moon looks like a giant micky mouse
9. catch22 - July 20, 2009 11:00 AM
start boycotting now before the moon looks like a giant micky mouse
10. LSDiesel - July 20, 2009 11:01 AM
This is the worst idea. A part of me thinks it would be somewhat cool to see a familiar logo or something on the moon, but then another part of me is wondering what gives a company the right to have their bullshit advertised on something that no one owns, and that everyone in the world can see.
Bad idea.
11. Nice Pete - July 20, 2009 11:03 AM
This looks absolutely nothing like a viral ad for some upcoming sci-fi movie. It is clearly a serious business that will actually happen.
12. Matty - July 20, 2009 11:06 AM
washington, washington....
13. hedgehog - July 20, 2009 11:07 AM
I want a picture of my butt on the moon
14. Delgo - July 20, 2009 11:08 AM
Thanks to Joe who once created an ad so good it made a midget grow.
15. Daisy - July 20, 2009 11:14 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Baja was trying to rehabillitate Max in the public eye to promote his foundation. when all was said and done, Max told Baja to look up and found her logo carved in the moon as "a good start"
16. STOMPY - July 20, 2009 11:17 AM
thats no moon....
17. Pew³ - July 20, 2009 11:29 AM
...STOMPY's balls.
18. Timbo - July 20, 2009 11:31 AM
Just...plain...wrong...
19. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - July 20, 2009 11:31 AM
Moon = etch a sketch?
20. Pew³ - July 20, 2009 11:31 AM
As a matter of fact, STOMPY. You should sell ads on your balls.
There's plenty of space, and just think of all the traffic those ads would get.
21. photoshop-police - July 20, 2009 11:35 AM
I think I'm gonna do the improbable.... agree with Daisy the cyborg spam-bot.
It's FAKE. I wonder what movie they're promoting.
p.s. it's nothing like the movie Never Back Down, and I'm starting to think that Daisy has never ever seen that movie. http://www.neverbackdownthemovie.com/
Happy Monday, Everyone!
22. meowmo - July 20, 2009 11:36 AM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ok maybe.
23. me - July 20, 2009 11:37 AM
i normaly dont write comments on this site but if this is real it has to be the dumbest, stupidest, greediest idea ive ever heard of. they cant just put some random junk on the moon for everyone to look at as it would totally ruin it. in the past and today kids look at the moon and think id love to go in to space and visit the moon, if they do this what will they be thinking "oh wow i cant wait to land on that microsoft logo" this just goes to far....
24. STOMPY - July 20, 2009 11:39 AM
@20
There is no way I'm letting a robot near my balls no matter how good their intentions may be. Pretty soon though my balls will look like a nascar or something...
25. Truk - July 20, 2009 12:03 PM
Cool- I'm starting a company that requires billions of dollars per job and will never happen too... ready? Center of the Earth Condos. I hope that shtty ad makes for a good tax write-off .
bunch of a-holes....
26. Truk - July 20, 2009 12:08 PM
@21 -y'know, until I clicked that link u posted, I always thought "Never Back Down" was a Jon Cusack movie from the 80's.
27. dani - July 20, 2009 12:15 PM
next they'll be sending a number of stars into supernova in the right way, so that from earth it'll read: Drink Coke
28. ha - July 20, 2009 12:21 PM
HA! or should i say CHA... for CHAIRFACE. He was gonna carve his name in the moon with a giant laser until the TICK stopped him atfer 3 letters... then led an unsuccessful trip to the moon the destroy the letters but only destroyed the C, leaving HA on the mooon...
29. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 20, 2009 12:27 PM
@28
Why are you the only other person here to this?
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/07/wrong_creating_advertisements.php#comment-126473
30. AIL - July 20, 2009 1:54 PM
Isaac Asimov's "Buy Jupiter"...all I'm sayin'
31. Flameblade - July 20, 2009 2:02 PM
Sure, why not. Let's freak the shit out of some third-world countries.
32. Nagadachi - July 20, 2009 2:17 PM
i hope that the guy that invented this dies in pain and suffering... the moon is all MINE!
but realy this is stupid, it took eons for the moon to look like this now some guy wants to make money out of destroying the earths only natural satelite... SHAME ON HIM!
33. sokka - July 20, 2009 3:12 PM
all your base are belong to us....
34. Andrew - July 20, 2009 3:22 PM
Can't they just get Hancock to do it ??
35. pitchshift - July 20, 2009 4:07 PM
Oh no please, .... please stop. dont do that guys.
36. Californy is the place ya outta be - July 20, 2009 5:04 PM
Welp, just goes to show ya... People who live in Utah (Mormons) have divested themselves of all decency.
How's this for an idea, the US redraws the border of Utah to make it look like a nike swoosh?
37. Daisy - July 20, 2009 10:41 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where Max and BAja were on the moon collecting rocks and when they returned to the rover, it was on blocks and the wheels were missing.
38. Jaded Icon - July 21, 2009 7:10 AM
@ 23 & 25
What are you guys thirteen years old? Look at it one more time. Lets just say, Daisy was correct this time around.
39. sokka - July 21, 2009 10:27 AM
2 daisy comments... we have an imposter in our midsts
40. Luna - July 22, 2009 2:12 PM
I should protest moon advertising.
41. TB - July 24, 2009 1:51 PM
How many impressions can the moon really get ? Zero in most urban areas. Who are they going to show ads to farmers and campers?
42. Dream - July 24, 2009 4:16 PM
Lol, like we need more ads in our lives.
Seeing burger king on the moon is not gonna make me want a burger... well, maybe it will, but i am nearsighted anyways, so it doesnt matter.