“Mucal invader! Is there no end to your oozing?”
Well, its not illegal to write your name in the snow…
Thanks for giving Madison Avenue the idea, Breckinshire!
I’m sure we’ll be seeing the Nike Swoosh up there any day now.
Give me immortality, or give me death!
Last year Pizza Hut was considering beaming (not carving) a laser image of their logo on the moon. I would imagine there were objections to this, but I don’t know if the issue of legality came up. They had to rethink their plans when they realized that, to be visible from earth, the image would have to be roughly the size of Texas, and they put their logo on a rocket ship instead.
…ebius sig. This is a moebius sig. This is a mo…
(sig line courtesy of WallyM7)
Nothing substantive to add. I just wanted to say that while I’ve come across some very funny posts, this is the first time I just about fell out my chair laughing over a thread title.
Thanks and congratulations!
You could write you name on the moon, but no one could read it.
Reminds me of batman & his flashlighting of the symbol on buildings. Try that, now that could be a lot of fun.
Wow, really? Do you have any more info on this?
Blessed are the Fundamentalists, for they shall inhibit the earth.
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I’ve been at SDMB for two months, and it’s my very first bona fide compliment! You made my day!
Blessed are the Fundamentalists, for they shall inhibit the earth.
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I was beaten to the punch at congratulating you, Breckinshire for a funny thread line, but you guys!! ** The Looney Tune Defense! ** StrTrkr777?? While I’m pretty sure that Roger Rabbit went down trying to use the *LTD *, you made me nearly fall off my chair!
And Mr. Cynical’s ‘upgraded version’ I instantly pictured Bill Gates doing commercials for this product!!
Ya’ll made my day! 
“I never saw so many words compressed into so small an idea.” Abraham Lincoln
Yeah, here’s some more info on Pizza in Space.
I like this quote:
Space Chef! I love it!
…ebius sig. This is a moebius sig. This is a mo…
(sig line courtesy of WallyM7)
And here’s a link mentioning the abandoned idea to put the Pizza Hut logo on the moon.
My memory is quite fogged here but, Did Nikoli Tesla have something to do with the originality of that concept?
I cannot remember.
ANy of you Straight dopers know?
Oh your from Wales?? Do you know a fella named Jonah?? He used to live in whales for a while.
The lunar missions were not military. Neil Armstrong was a civilian and NASA is a civilian agency. Fighter pilots just made darn good astronauts when the major requirement was flying a new spacecraft.
P.S.
It doesn’t matter if it is illegal to carve your name on the moon with a big assed laser. If someone comes after you for it, you have a big assed laser to zap them and their army with.
Ah, ha, except you forgot something. If you made a laser that could do it & you aimed it at the moon, what’s to keep it from not slicing up a few hundred satellites orbiting the earth too?
It’s getting closer to reality.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/06/07/anti.rocket.laser/
Is anyone else picturing Dr. Evil doing that quote thing with his hands and saying “LAS-er?”
“Spine… WORK WITH ME” by the Tick
or
“CANT…DO…PLAID” the Human Chameleon
I suggest, from this post on, the weapon in question should be referred to as Big Ass Laser ™, or BAL. A product of World Wide Pants, of course.
I say carve away. You can be the legal precedent upon which all future interstellar vandalism is compared.
While the OP of this thread is damn funny, some comments that have been made bring up an interesting question.
Cheese Head:
Who (or what?) will govern space once we start using it in a commercial sense? I know that I’ve read some rumblings about a “space hotel” and “space tours” (I’m sorry I don’t have any cites right now, I’ll try to dig some up). I know this seems distant, but I’m curious. What do the millions think?