Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for September 17, 2021

a lot of marketing execs are going to be up late after reading this one…

thanks amelia…

Want to travel faster than light? Project the movie on the moon, and then move your fingers left to right in front of the lens as fast as you can. Your shadow might be going from one side of the moon to the other faster than the speed of light, Wallace. Think that will blow Spud’s mind?

Robert Heinlein predicted the moon being used for ads in 1949, “The Man Who Sold The Moon.”

CHA

Beneath the waves the stars are crawling to and from the deep

As up above, the other stars shine down upon the sea

Between, the children, starry-eyed, both galaxies shall see.

Please no chick-flicks, either..!

Where’s Rose?

Don’t give them any ideas. That technology is almost available.

But half the planet would be gripping about it and clicking their remote controls at the moon. Not that they’re probably not doing it now.

My first thought was Arthur C Clarke’s Watch This Space short story from a few years later.

It’s been done. Sort of. The American flag is up there already.

But people could not hear it so you would have to use a Silent Picture. I recommend Buster Keaton.

“Buy Jupiter” – Isaac Asimov (1958)

Advertisers can ruin good things, don’t give them any ideas on ruining the moon. Got to ask yourself though; have you ever bought anything because you saw a logo on a jersey, baseball hat, on the side of a truck or even on the side of a rocket ship taking off? Not me anyway. If I like it, I will buy it or continue to buy it just because I do like it…..

I love the stars and their reflection on the bay.

Meh, it probably wouldn’t be worth the effort anyway, Wallace. In order for that to work, you’d have to launch some sort of satellite that could sit in preferably perfect geosynchronous orbit with the moon at a distance good enough that the image from the projector would fill most of the moon’s surface AND still have a high enough resolution for the image to be visible from Earth (which I have doubts about being possible) and, of course, still bearing sufficient energy and resources to power all of this—probably more than what the typical satellite would demand (so not solar, probably).

So not only would those technical problems need addressing, the costs would quickly add up too.

Giant projector showing a rom-com on the moon to get us “all to laugh together?” I’m in!

I like that 3rd panel with all the stars and their reflections with the pier and the kids outlined.

It was either Dave Sheridan or Fred Schrier who (in comics) was using the Moon to show Laurel & Hardy movies on.

On a youth group snow outing to the mountains, a friend an I used a slide projector to display pictures on the low overcast clouds.

Can’t wait to see the audio set-up!

If you got to choose 2 movies, one Rom Com one Action Comedy to play on the moon, what would they be? I would do While you Were Sleeping and Inception.

The moon as seen from the Earth is at most the size of a half dollar coin. What you need is something either much larger or much closer.

I imagine when SpaceX finishes their Starlink constellation of internet satellites, they will show a continuous visible message down onto the Earth to help pay for the costs of the system. Most likely only visible at night, but it will be there. Elon isn’t stupid enough to pass up those $$$.

Um – that would be on the NEW moon, not the FULL moon. Otherwise, your projector is competing with the sun. Not a fair fight.

Doris Day. Rock Hudson. EW?

Nice to see Wallace doesn’t care for crass capitalism.

Anyone know any good action comedy movies for 1st graders? No? Didn’t think so