# You know when the next satellite photo will be taken. What do you do? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2008, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-when-the-next-satellite-photo-will-be-taken-what-do-you-do/453206 "2008-06-17T14:10:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-when-the-next-satellite-photo-will-be-taken-what-do-you-do/453206/21 "2008-06-17T19:38:27Z")
Have you seen the movie _Waiting_? THE BRAAAAAAIIIIINNNNN!!! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-when-the-next-satellite-photo-will-be-taken-what-do-you-do/453206/22 "2008-06-17T19:46:35Z")
Paint “Your Message Here, $25.00” on the roof of my house. ---
**Author:** ![Trollhaugen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Trollhaugen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trollhaugen)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-when-the-next-satellite-photo-will-be-taken-what-do-you-do/453206/23 "2008-06-17T20:08:06Z")
[QUOTE=Yllaria] I’m disqualified from this thread. You can’t see my house from up. It’s surrounded by big, honking heritage oak trees. [/QUOTE] You have a week. Cut down the trees and get creative. I would spell out Google sucks on my roof with something and see if they actually post the image. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-when-the-next-satellite-photo-will-be-taken-what-do-you-do/453206/24 "2008-06-17T20:11:11Z")
I’d contact MapQuest and/or Microsoft Live and charge them a ton of money to stick a huge advertisement on top of my house (maybe coordinate with the neighbors, too). ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-when-the-next-satellite-photo-will-be-taken-what-do-you-do/453206/25 "2008-06-17T20:16:35Z")
Big bull’s eye on roof. “Alien LZ” on roof. Cut something suggestive into the middle of a bigass tarp laid over the back forty. Heck, paint something rude on the bigass tarp, easier to fix later than painted roof. Yes, I do have a bigass tarp, why do you ask? 😃 I really like the mouse pointer idea! ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-when-the-next-satellite-photo-will-be-taken-what-do-you-do/453206/26 "2008-06-17T22:37:55Z")
A 20 foot long housefly. They’ll never figure out how it got into the negative. Edit: Mouse Pointer wins! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-when-the-next-satellite-photo-will-be-taken-what-do-you-do/453206/27 "2008-06-17T23:07:32Z")
Get as many people as I can to go up onto the roof of my building and lie down, naked. Paint a huge “fool-the-eye” painting on a tarp and stretch it across the roof. The painting would depict a hellmouth, or another building, or a courtyard with a fountain, or something. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-when-the-next-satellite-photo-will-be-taken-what-do-you-do/453206/28 "2008-06-17T23:11:50Z")
Google let people know for Australia Day last year, and [people did various things](http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/02/australia_day_flyove.html). It’s amazing what you can accomplish with a few reams of paper and wire stakes, or even just a shovel and a beach. If I knew they were going to fly over my neighborhood in Chicago, I’d paint a huge [Kate Bush “KT Fem” symbol](http://gaffa.org/faq/ktfem_bg.gif) on the roof with black poster paint. It would be very cool for the handful of people who knew what it is and be baffling for the vast masses. ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-when-the-next-satellite-photo-will-be-taken-what-do-you-do/453206/29 "2008-06-18T00:11:12Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] Big bull’s eye on roof. “Alien LZ” on roof. Cut something suggestive into the middle of a bigass tarp laid over the back forty. Heck, paint something rude on the bigass tarp, easier to fix later than painted roof. Yes, I do have a bigass tarp, why do you ask? 😃 I really like the mouse pointer idea! [/QUOTE] Bull’s eye on NEIGHBOR’S roof! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Them](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Them](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Them)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-when-the-next-satellite-photo-will-be-taken-what-do-you-do/453206/30 "2008-06-18T06:13:26Z")
Get many gallons of Karo and red food dye, some prop weaponry (heck, real weaponry would be fine too!), and everybody in the neighborhood, and stage the aftermath of some hideous battle/massacre. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-when-the-next-satellite-photo-will-be-taken-what-do-you-do/453206.md?page=1)