] "Space commercials could embrace huge areas and a
] colossal number of consumers," he said. "This would
] literally be intercontinental coverage."
] ...
] "People would be able to see writing in the skies from
] the Earth no worse than they see the stars," he said.

[ Um, actually, they'd probably see the writing *better* since you'll be BLOCKING said stars. I wish i understood why anyone thinks this is a good idea. I guess maybe if you accept that we're reaching a point where people can hardly see any stars anyway, it's easier to justify, but man, can't we have at least one safe direction to point our eyes and try to remember what it was like to be something other than a consumer?

Yahoo! News - Russian Inventor Patents Space-Ads Device