I've read this morning in www.repubblica.it that an advertisement of Doritos potato chips has been sent by the Eiscat radar in the Svalbard islands towards a star in the Ursa Major constellation. See this:
Doritos
Tullio

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GG Doritos! I'll have to go buy a bag now, this is advertising I can get behind.

Eiscat is a scientific cooperation of the northern European countries plus UK. Germany, China and Japan dedicated to the study of the ionosphere with incoherent radar scattering. They also can monitor space debris and, I think, all near Earth space activities. If this idea of advertising to the little green customers makes headway, maybe Arecibo can get something out of it.
Tullio

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Daddio has been on to this for a long time:

That´s a good idea!!LOL
But I´d prefer this other one on the booster rockets, instead of Energize batteries: Mars bars
Maybe on the Mars Lander Phoenix!!!
Cheers!

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Advertising on the shuttle sounds fine to me. Maybe the space station would be done by now.

I wonder who will be the first one in paying an advertising campaign in space. It is a tradition to bet for the last 20/30 seconds of advertising on TV on midnight December 31st here in Spain. In most cases it is Coca-Cola, but Freixenet is a hard oponent!!!
I´ve been told in the US it is during the finals of NFL broadcasts when the highest prices are paid for TV advertising.
I remember the scene when the Saturn V rocket was taking off with the Apollo mission from Cape Canaveral to the Moon, the TV showed very clear the big U.S.A. vertical letters.
What about Dr.Peppers this time!?!? Remember: if you drive, don´t drink!!
Cheers!!

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Older people like to tell stories.

On the Apollo-Saturn V rocket.

I was in Huntsville, Alabama at Redstone Arsenal/Marshall Space Flight Center in 1966. This was where Werner Von Braun was now working.

I was attending munitions school there while in the Army. My top secret clearance had not come through yet so a few of us were excused from a class on Nuclear Weapons and were playing golf on the grounds.. They were testing the Saturn V rocket in a static test. I would guess that the golf course was maybe 3 miles away from the test stand and gantry. The ground shook on the golf course as they test fired the rocket booster. It was like an earthquake. The combined power of the clustered rockets was 7,500,000 pounds of thrust.

Older people like to tell stories.

On the Apollo-Saturn V rocket.

I was in Huntsville, Alabama at Redstone Arsenal/Marshall Space Flight Center in 1966. This was where Werner Von Braun was now working.

I was attending munitions school there while in the Army. My top secret clearance had not come through yet so a few of us were excused from a class on Nuclear Weapons and were playing golf on the grounds.. They were testing the Saturn V rocket in a static test. I would guess that the golf course was maybe 3 miles away from the test stand and gantry. The ground shook on the golf course as they test fired the rocket booster. It was like an earthquake. The combined power of the clustered rockets was 7,500,000 pounds of thrust.

I missed unfortunately the launch of the Apollo XI mission. I do not remember what I was doing!!??!!??
But this time I was awake and following the EDL of the Phoenix Mars Lander online together with Dr.C.E.T.I. and someone else whose name I cannot remember now, but in another thread five or six lines away. Next time we should kick off some beers and celebrate it. Wondering if we will ever be witness of a new milestone in space of this size.Meanwhile let´s think about what kind of beer we buy!!! Coors, Budweiser, Michelob, San Miguel maybe?.....what do you think?
Cheers!

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