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From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh Hopkins)
Subject: Re: Space Advertising (2 of 2)
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 05:36:06 GMT
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Wales.Larrison@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:

>the "Environmental
>Billboard" is a large inflatable outer support structure of up to
>804x1609 meters.  Advertising is carried by a mylar reflective area,
>deployed by the inflatable 'frame'.
>   To help sell the concept, the spacecraft responsible for
>maintaining the billboard on orbit will carry "ozone reading
>sensors" to "continuously monitor the condition of the Earth's
>delicate protective ozone layer," according to Mike Lawson, head of
>SMI. Furthermore, the inflatable billboard has reached its minimum
>exposure of 30 days it will be released to re-enter the Earth's
>atmosphere. According to IMI, "as the biodegradable material burns,
>it will release ozone-building components that will literally
>replenish the ozone layer."
 ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^

 Can we assume that this guy studied advertising and not chemistry?  Granted 
it probably a great advertising gimic, but it doesn't sound at all practical.

-- 
Josh Hopkins                                          jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
		    "Find a way or make one."
	             -attributed to Hannibal
