WASHINGTON — Astronomers are calling on nations to ban advertising in space that can be seen from the ground, calling it the latest threat to the dark and quiet sky.
At a briefing during the 245th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society earlier this month, the organization rolled out a statement calling for bans on “obtrusive space advertising” because of the interference it could cause for groundbased astronomy.
Obtrusive space advertising is defined in U.S. federal law as “advertising in outer space that is capable of being recognized by a human being on the surface of the Earth without the aid of a telescope or other technological device.” Such advertising is banned in federal law through prohibitions on granting launch licenses for missions carrying payloads to carry out space advertising.
TIL 43 people are 5% of the world population…
Also, how do you plan to sabotage space billboards?
Well, you wouldn’t sabotage the billboard. You would sabotage their factories until it costs them more than the billboard makes them. Make it unprofitable to create them.
The same way they’re planning to upload new ads.
Wahoo! 🔧💚🪠
I’ll try spinning, that’s a good trick!
Or his dataset consists of 860 people and only 43 said they’d boycott it.
If so, that context was missing from their comment