Comments on: Rolling Rock’s bucket o’ Moon graffiti

By: kristy

kristy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:46:31 +0000

How do you feel about new talks to use shadows to advertise on the moon?

http://twoifbysee.blogspot.com/2009/07/you-want-moon-moon-advertising-could-be.html

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:59:21 +0000

Here is perhaps the simplest way to see the utter infeasibility of the concept of lighting the full moon in a way that would be visible to the naked eye, requiring no calculations and no knowledge of the moon’s albedo: The light that we normally see coming from the full moon is reflected from the sunlight that is falling on the entire face of the moon, which has a surface area comparable to a largish continent on Earth (about 2000 mi diameter). Therefore, to significantly change the light we see reflected back from the moon’s surface, even if the light that we send there is focused so that 100% of it falls on the moon, the amount of light power that we would have to project onto the moon (for a period sustained long enough to see) would have to be comparable to the amount of power that would be produced if one were to cover all of North America with high-efficiency solar panels, or, more simply, mirrors reflecting the sun’s image onto the moon. At the Earth’s distance from the moon, North America looks about as large as the sun, so an image of the sun could just barely fit into a North-America-sized mirror. Or, another way to think about the problem: From the point of view of someone standing on the moon (anywhere on the area to be lit), the source of light on Earth would have to look about as bright to them as the sun looks to us. Think about how much power it would take to make the Earth appear as bright as the sun!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:27:18 +0000

P.S. Why is society so desperate to occupy the moon, mars or any other celestial object other than Earth. We as a collective society can not even manage this planet to keep pollution, political strife, and a harmonious balance in check. Why spread our ‘viral’ ways further. We should be more concentrated on ‘SAVING’ our planet, than spreading our ‘crap’ into outer space!!!!!!!!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:22:53 +0000

Of course this would not work, for would’nt a laser melt the green cheese that the moon is made of? (Tee Hee)

On the ‘fake’ moon landing…is the ‘flag’ that was planted still there and if so is it visable through powerful telescopes from earth? Would this either prove the moon landing as fact or expose it as a hoax?

By: Walter

Walter — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:46:09 +0000

What if a laser was stationed at the Earth-Moon Langrange 1 point?
This is a stable point only about 60000 miles from the moon.

By: Darth Borehd

Darth Borehd — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:02:14 +0000

I was thinking about how you might make something appear to be on the moon. Perhaps if they aimed the lasers so that they intersected at certain points and had a lot of dust in the air, They could create the optical illusion of something being displayed on the moon. Or maybe instead of lasers they could make some kind of display with search lights??

By: Roberto

Roberto — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:07:03 +0000

I appreciate that many of you think this was an effective advertising scheme because it got us “talking about it.” But frankly, except for the first few minutes when I wondered if it was actually possible to do what Rolling Rock claimed it was going to do, after I figured out that it was a joke, I stopped caring. I don’t drink their beer, and never will. And even if they COULD beam their logo to the moon, I still wouldn’t drink their beer.

By: Chelle

Chelle — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:12:16 +0000

OK ROLLING ROCK BEER….ITS TIME TO JUMP OUT FROM BEHIND THE BILLBOARDS AND SAY… APRIL FOOLS!!!
I must admit you got me. I actually thought you could shine a bean on thee large, seen at millions of different angles, and mighty far away moon. The only moon you will shine an ad on will be the moon sticking out of the advertisement ON the billboard itself. LOVED it anyway

By: STAN SMITH

STAN SMITH — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:42:59 +0000

STAN SMITH STILL LOVES NELSON BLACK 4EVER NO MATTER WHAT THE WEBSITE SAYS, YAHOO!

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:23:51 +0000

There’s an easier way. Launch a satellite and shot the laser from it.

By: Joe Basile

Joe Basile — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:39:44 +0000

Not to mention that if someone did that successfully (advertise with the moon as such) it would probably violate the outer space treaty and they would deserve to be put in Jail for it. It would be like toilet-papering the grand canyon as a publicity stunt. Even talking about it make me angry.

All in all its pretty dumb.

By: KC

KC — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:34:48 +0000

I was able to find the book with the photo I remembered. It turned out to be a photo of the crescent *earth* taken by the Surveyor 7 lander. In the dark portion was two dots of lights from lasers beamed at the Surveyor 7 landing site from two U.S. observatories. This is on page 236 under Astronautics in the 1969 Britannica Yearbook of Science and the Future.

Knowing this, it was easy to do a web search. Sure enough, the photo I remembered can be seen here:

http://www.w7ftt.net/laser2.html

According to this web site, these were 2-Watt Argon lasers, one at the Table Mountain and the other at Kitt Peak.

So what I remembered was *not* illumination of the night-portion of the moon, but, I humbly submit, is just as cool.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:53:00 +0000

You’re an idiot, it’s just an advertising campaign, and besides, how is it Rolling Rocks’ problem that you have a lousy internet connection and computer! Their website runs great on mine, and I think it’s awesome!

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:53:17 +0000

I doubt it worked but that would be awesome to see. I can’t find any info on their attempt. Can someone clue the rest of us in, please?

By: Pussy Lips

Pussy Lips — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:50:24 +0000

I missed it. What happened? It probably didn’t work but it’d be so cool to see it if it did. Someone tell me what happened!!!!!!!

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:43:48 +0000

If you drink enough beers, and hold your Rolling rock up with the moon behind the bottle you can see the R.R. logo….. It works.

LOL

By: Rock Fan

Rock Fan — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:52:57 +0000

Damn, I got drunk and missed it. Did anybody see it? Was it cool? I bet it was awesome. If anybody has a pic post please. Ill be back later my head hurts.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:25:48 +0000

Phil, reality changes as we get smarter and improve things like technology. If you were as smart as you seem to act, then you’d understand that. Perhaps it won’t work, but its a cool idea and if it does work, companies will do battle over who gets to advertise on the moon next.

By: Rockin' Randy

Rockin' Randy — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:22:08 +0000

To all of you; Beer is an art. And like all art, it is subjective. There are thousands of beers made around the world and all are different from one another. Just like you and me, we’re all different. You don’t have to like everybody, but you do have to respect everybody. It’s the same for beer. You may like one beer over another, but that does not make the beer you don’t like a bad beer. As for the Moon, it ‘s a natual wonder for all behold. It is not a billboard. So enjoy the beer of your choice. Stop wasting time and energy carping about beer you don’t like. And watch the wonders that are given to us in the heavens above.

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy” Benjamin Franklin

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:16:47 +0000

I think its a cool idea. If it works, everyone else will learn to like it also, even all you lame ass critics.

By: Rock Fan

Rock Fan — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:37:41 +0000

OmG! I am so excited..what time does the moon come up?

By: yo mama

yo mama — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:02:10 +0000

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By: damian

damian — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:37:27 +0000

I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this, but a Google search for “rolling+rock+moon” leads to THIS site at #1, and the official Rolling Rock site #2.

Victory!

By: SuperACG

SuperACG — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:39:40 +0000

James Rolfe (AKA: The Angry Video Game Nerd) drinks Rolling Rock. That alone increased my awareness of the beer. Perhaps he should be in the commercials…

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:22:49 +0000

Too bad they couldn’t turn the moon into a big Obama button.