Paint The Moon... In Your Imagination
from the it-sounded-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time dept
Last week, five different people emailed me about the Paint The Moon Project that this artist cooked up, where he wants people across the US to shine laser pointers at the moon at a specific point in time in order to create a red dot on the moon. Some scientists have done a few back of the envelope calculations to suggest that there's not much of a chance of it coming close to working, but that's not stopping the guy who's organizing it all.
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I could've told him it wouldn't work
Also, given the artist's terrible instructions on how to point at the moon, I'll bet that most participants won't even be pointing their laser in the right place.
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try this first
What's next, have 2 million people in china hop up and down at the same time in order to "spill the coffee" in America?
Time for "art" to take a reality check.
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