I remember seeing a spot in Star Trek where you could see the Luna colony from Earth. It was very cool. Better to see a lake and some green than the Microsoft Windows logo...
Can someone designate the moon as an international park to prevent the logo stuff?
1. With the size of the images, they would need too many robots to be able to change the image that is displayed quickly.
2. If they are able to create an image, why can't they change it? You wouldn't be tattooing your initials on the moon "forever". Only until they change the image.
Nooooo! Do not let companies junk up space with a bunch of ads and spam. Which later will mean courts, frivilous lawsuits, and EVEN worse lawyers. Earth isn't enough huh? Now we got those who want to junk up the moon and space in general. I sure don't want to look up at the night sky and see big glowing Viagra or tampon advert.
Please let there be some international law that prevents this from happening. How full of yourself are you if you think you have the right to control what over 6 billion people are going to have to see?
I wouldn't mind a laser light advert system projected from Earth but deforming the actual surface?!
This sounds like a money sink for whoever came up with the idea. The "invest in this and it will happen!" kind of thing. Except the guy running it is spending/pocketing all the current investments to get more people to invest. Wish I had thought of it first...
Isn't the moon considered international territory? See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
The government would have to approve this first. Of course, nobody has the means to enforce the law once someone manages to land a robot there. . .
First mad scientist to land bots and build an aerial defense network gets the right carve a message to the world. See also: "It's mine now, bitches!!!"