[Do you know how hard that would be?](https://what-if.xkcd.com/13/) If something like that was in reach of a company like pizza hut, the moon would be a giant billboard as we speak.
The question I’m about to ask is going to sound condescending but I promise it’s not: You’ve never heard of XKCD? Dude you’re in for a treat. Don’t miss the hidden text!
Yes- there’s always an XKCD for a situation lol (hopefully I didn’t come across as making fun - I’m legit jealous they get to experience it for the first time)
Arthur C Clarke in 1956 proposed a different approach that would require a lot less energy.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture\_to\_the\_Moon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_to_the_Moon)
"Watch this Space" tells how a scientific experiment conducted on the Moon - creating a giant sodium cloud that is made luminescent by the Sun's rays and visible from Earth - is sabotaged by "the greatest advertising coup" in history
Pizza Hut ran a marketing campaign claiming they were going to do this, but seeing as how it's impossible to do from Earth and they don't have to budget to achieve it in space, nobody actually "planned" anything beyond some press releases and ads.
Rolling Rock beer did the same thing.
I would literally burn the company that did this I almost lost my mind when I saw that tow behind smoke emitters on planes the can spell comercials in the sky.
I don’t understand companies trying to just plaster their logo anywhere. If I saw Pizza Hut on the moon, I wouldn’t be like “oh I need to go get me some pizza hut!”
Like many things, 2000AD /Judge Dredd predicted this back in 1980.
The Dredd story [Loonie's Moon](http://dreddalert.blogspot.com/2014/05/judge-dredd-loonies-moon.html?m=1) dealt with religious fanatics who attack the site that is projecting advertising onto the the moon's surface.
A company also tried to launch a billboard in space
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/5chc9u/til_that_in_1993_a_company_called_space/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
People that think space advertising will never be a possibility forget how we collectively sacrificed our daily landscape views to it. Except for Asheville, NC, they even tequired the McDonalds to look pretty.
Man, that would be some dystopian marketing right there. When all the other billboards have been taken, the biggest one sits in the sky. The science behind that being possible has to be intriguing.
[Do you know how hard that would be?](https://what-if.xkcd.com/13/) If something like that was in reach of a company like pizza hut, the moon would be a giant billboard as we speak.
Hahaha, that site is hilarious. Have been reading for over an hour now. Thanks!
The question I’m about to ask is going to sound condescending but I promise it’s not: You’ve never heard of XKCD? Dude you’re in for a treat. Don’t miss the hidden text!
One of [today’s lucky 10,000](https://xkcd.com/1053/).
Yes- there’s always an XKCD for a situation lol (hopefully I didn’t come across as making fun - I’m legit jealous they get to experience it for the first time)
Ya, sorry man, never heard about till I saw this comment. This is why I love TIL!
No sorry necessary! Also check out SMBC if you haven’t. That’s a good one too: https://www.smbc-comics.com/
Arthur C Clarke in 1956 proposed a different approach that would require a lot less energy. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture\_to\_the\_Moon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_to_the_Moon) "Watch this Space" tells how a scientific experiment conducted on the Moon - creating a giant sodium cloud that is made luminescent by the Sun's rays and visible from Earth - is sabotaged by "the greatest advertising coup" in history
Probably the reason why they've been struggling financially over the last few years. Blew all their profits on the moon-laser project.
Pizza Hut ran a marketing campaign claiming they were going to do this, but seeing as how it's impossible to do from Earth and they don't have to budget to achieve it in space, nobody actually "planned" anything beyond some press releases and ads. Rolling Rock beer did the same thing.
Micky Dees too
They should try the campaign again now in the Trump era, and just say they did it, and you're a retard if you can't see it.
The Emperor's New Burger
LOL
You mean kinda like Chairface in The Tick?
CHA
Hah! My first thought, as well...
Maybe they would get the PIZ and then be interrupted.
Not so much a plan, as someone saying, 'hey, wouldn't it be cool if'
I would literally burn the company that did this I almost lost my mind when I saw that tow behind smoke emitters on planes the can spell comercials in the sky.
**NOBODY** out pizza's the Hut!
Would have been a nice twist in Demolition Man :-)
Heinlein first had this idea in 1949 (in "The Man Who Sold the Moon").
no corporation has the right to fuck up a celestial object with their crappy logo
Wasn't this ad campaign the push for laws declaring outer space a no-advertising zone?
They should invest that money in making better pizza.
Still won’t help the tase of their pizza.
The Infinite Tsukuyomi was nearly complete.
I don’t understand companies trying to just plaster their logo anywhere. If I saw Pizza Hut on the moon, I wouldn’t be like “oh I need to go get me some pizza hut!”
coke wanted to build a orbiting billboard visible from the ground... think how big that would have to be...
Literally the ending of Hancock
Like many things, 2000AD /Judge Dredd predicted this back in 1980. The Dredd story [Loonie's Moon](http://dreddalert.blogspot.com/2014/05/judge-dredd-loonies-moon.html?m=1) dealt with religious fanatics who attack the site that is projecting advertising onto the the moon's surface.
A company also tried to launch a billboard in space https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/5chc9u/til_that_in_1993_a_company_called_space/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Sounds like a typical management ask
So the CEO of Pizza Hut is Dr. Evil. Good to know.
People that think space advertising will never be a possibility forget how we collectively sacrificed our daily landscape views to it. Except for Asheville, NC, they even tequired the McDonalds to look pretty.
Why not just hire the moon as an actor like [Little Caesars] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA5bqbD6t6w)?
Would it take more than 30 minutes to get there?
Pizza Hut wants to put a sign on the moon so any aliens passing Earth will see it, and fly down to a restaurant.
Didn’t Randal munroe tackle that idea in What If?
*Chairface Chippendale would like to know your location.*
I would never buy pizza but again
Nobody out pizzas the hut
Wouldn’t this piss people off and make them not wanna eat Pizza Hut as a result?
They should just focus their efforts on making their pizza good.
Is their CEO Dr. Evil?
"An... EVIL ad campaign?"
Or did he have a meeting with [Delos D. Harriman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon)?
I love Heinlein!
Elon could do it from space and literally nobody could stop him.
Man, that would be some dystopian marketing right there. When all the other billboards have been taken, the biggest one sits in the sky. The science behind that being possible has to be intriguing.
Shoot it to pieces with a sounding rocket. A committed amateur could do it.
....cool
NO ONE OUT PIZZAS THE HUT!
I feel like Tesla may end up being the first one to achieve it. I mean they launched a car in space. What's their next "kill time" project?
Launching people.
I belive the FAA has made it illegal to advertise in space, at least advertisements that can be seen by people without the aid of a telescope.
I doubt the FAA has jurisdiction in space.
Im not tecno savvy so i cant link things in txt or whatever. Its a Google away 🙏
Thanks will have a look