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The Perfect Age Of Rock 'N' Roll IN THEATRES AUGUST 5th!
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According to rock 'n' roll lore, age 27 is a fateful milestone. From Robert Johnson, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison to Kurt Cobain, all stars we lost at this very age.
World famous rock star Spyder (Kevin Zegers – Transamerica, Frozen) has achieved fame and fortune with a smash hit debut album. This blinding success however, is built on the Faustian pact that capitalized on the genius of his long lost childhood best friend and band mate, Eric Genson (Jason Ritter – NBC's The Event, Good Dick). Now Spyder retreats to his small hometown after his sophomore effort flops. Reconnecting with Eric after a seven year estrangement, the two recall their youthful ambitions and reexamine the choices they've made. Accompanied by the band's ambitious, fiery manager (Taryn Manning – ABC's Hawaii 5-0, Hustle & Flow, 8 Mile), the legendary music impresario August West (Peter Fonda – Easy Rider, 3:10 to Yuma) and a raucous crew of musicians, they set off on a cathartic journey along historic Route 66 that brings them closer to each other, their history and their destiny. Fueled by a stellar rock 'n' roll soundtrack that includes songs by Nirvana, Bob Dylan, Iggy & The Stooges, Alice in Chains, Muddy Waters, The Violent Femmes, Howlin' Wolf, Jane's Addiction, and many more, The Perfect Age of Rock 'N' Roll fully captures the energy, rebellion, and thrills of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle.
The Perfect Age of Rock 'N' Roll also stars Lukas Haas, Kelly Lynch, Lauren Holly, Ruby Dee, Billy Dee Williams, Michael K. Williams, James Ransone and Aimee Teegarden.


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In this video segment from the American Experience: "Freedom Riders" Web site, watch interviews and newsreel footage and see archival photos to learn how Mahatma Gandhi, the leader in the struggle for an independent India, inspired and influenced those engaged in the struggle to end racial discrimination in the United States. Gandhi's use of nonviolence had allowed the people of India to win independence from Great Britain in 1947. While Gandhi declined an invitation from American civil rights leaders to become directly involved in the U.S. struggle for equal rights, his encouragement persuaded them that the tactic of nonviolence also held great potential in a struggle for the rights of a minority. This resource is part of the American Experience: Freedom Riders collection.
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Life has been busy and tiring after work started 3 weeks ago. People are super nice and I'm finally starting to learn their names (I have a crappy name memory but I remember a face easily - go figure why I need up to 4 weeks to remember which name belongs to who). I have suffered from shoulder and lower back pains now and then but I do like it in here. :)
But now that my roommate left me for nearly 2 weeks (she likes Southern Finland more than my company! :( ) I decided to really focus on letters and mail in general. No one to talk to and tv shows can be crappy (I NEED MORE "Awkward"!!!) so that's a great reason to focus on mail and catch up for good! :) Haven't been all caught up with mail in YEARS! :) But here are some of the mail received and sent during February. The lack of mail is due to Posti being an ass and not redirecting my mail even though I ordered redirection. :/ Oh well, February's worth of mail should be arriving to me today :)
Outgoing Postcrossing postcards
most were sent last week's Monday from Arktikum with the special postmark they offer :)
|to Germany
|to India
|to Finland
|to Poland, Germany and Armenia
Arktikum postcard with matching postmark ;)
|to Netherlands
|to Lithuania
|to Turkey
|to Chile
|to Argentina
|to Russia
|to Russia
|to Czech Republic
|to Russia
Other Outgoing postcards
|Private swap to Japan
|Private swap to Miia, Finland
Incoming Postcards
|from Alex, Germany
|Year of the Monkey postcards from Singapore and Australia
|Jetoy postcard I received empty from Memi, Thailand as a souvenir from her trip to South Korea.
Wrote and sent it for myself as a way to collect another special postmark we had for only a short time!
|old stamp and the Lahti Ski Games (Salpausselän Kisat) postmark
|to Maria, Russia
|to Emma, Finland
|from Amy, UK
|my reply to Amy - sent on Feb 29th :3
|from Kitty, Germany
she sent a letter and a box of tea :D
|my reply to her. Sorry for the crappy pic. Didn't realize it was that bad before I moved it to my laptop.
Sent on Feb 29th.
|to Sabine, Germany
|to Daria, Poland
|from Momo, Finland
|My reply to Momo, sent a week ago Monday with the special postmark :)
|from Alexis, USA
she sent me sheets of her self made stationery as well as stickers!! ;;__;; I'm so lucky to have a pal like her!
Here's to hoping March will bring more mail than February did!
Hope you all have full mailboxes! :)


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Twice Maknaes, Tzuyu and Chaeyoung on King of Mask Singer (2)
The two youngest members of Twice, Tzuyu and Chaeyoung, guested as part of the panel for the latest episode of MBC's King of Mask Singer. The highly popular show is in the same time slot as KBS 1N2D. The latest episode is one for the books. Don't worry, I won't spoil anything.
Previously it was just Tzuyu, now this one is just Chaeyoung. Here she is as part of the panel for the 61st episode. Previously, fellow group member Nayeon was a guest.
|so cute right?
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At first glance, New Line's new live action adaptation of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth might seem like something just for young boys, but what might help make it fun for girls as well as the fathers who bring their kids to see the movie is the introduction of Icelandic beauty Anita Briem in her first major Hollywood movie. She plays Hannah, an Icelandic guide who helps Brendan Fraser's geologist Trevor Anderson and his nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson) navigate the fjords and cliffs of Iceland to try to find the cave entry that will take them to the center of the earth.
ComingSoon.net sat in on a roundtable interview with the delightful young actress who had such a remarkable breakout role in this action-adventure, and she told us a few stories of how she got the part and from the filming of the movie.
ComingSoon.net: How did they find you for this movie? Did they do a big casting call? Iceland is not exactly the first place you might go to look for an actress, I'd guess.
Anita Briem: It's really not. I came in to this process, and I think I set a record and beat Cameron Diaz's record on how many times she auditioned for "The Mask" of how many times I auditioned for "Journey to the Center of the Earth." It was around 25 times, it was incredible. It was like a running gag in my life, like "So those guys want to see you again." "Ah, I see. Hi, boys, how are you? Nice to see you again." That was a very interesting process but obviously being in the first live action movie in 3D, we did all kinds of tests and I met everybody and their uncle. Ever since, every actress that I talked to or that I meet are like, "I read for that!" and a lot of harsh "hi's" of my fellow actresses upon me. One might say that I earned my way in there the hard way.
CS: What was your reaction when you finally got the phone call and knew you got the part?
Briem: Oh, it was wonderful. I was familiar with the script. This process took about four months, so I was familiar with the development of the script a little bit through that period and then we got to filming with these brand-new cameras that were developed by James Cameron. They have two lenses instead of one, recording for both eyes, it's a brand-new thing, but it wasn't until I first went and saw some of the dailies that I realized what a spectacular event this was. I sat there and watched it in 3D and then went "holy sh*t, this is a completely different visual medium then people have ever seen before." So this is really an honor to be part of something that I think is the most significant thing to happen to cinema since Technicolor. In fact, you have sound and then you have color and now you have 3D, so it's an incredible honor to be a part of that.
CS: You're a classically trained actress, so what was it like working in an environment where you have green screen and have to use your imagination for landscapes that aren't there?
Briem: That's where I think your training comes in wonderfully handy. Imagination is a beautiful thing. People often associate negative things with blue screen or green screen work, but I actually think it's quite the opposite. I think it's really an opportunity to expand on your imagination, but in this movie, we did some blue screen work, but a lot of the sets were built from scratch. They actually went and took casts of real caves and tunnels and then they would build the identical thing, so it would be a real cave or a real tunnel, and then you'd have all these people with these tiny little toothpicks doing such detailed work that went into these incredible sets. They built an extraordinary world. Obviously, they don't have any limits on the imagination of set construction since nobody can actually prove what the center of the earth looks like.
CS: Did you read the book when you were a child?
Briem: Sure! I did as a child. Jules Verne is a wonderful writer. He's actually the first science fiction writer in history, so his stories are wonderful, and obviously, we enter the center of the earth through Iceland, which is my home country. It's not the first supernatural association that Iceland has. We get taught as children to be very respectful of the elves and careful of the trolls, and so that's probably why Jules Verne chose a location like Iceland. It's quite a magical place.
CS: What was it like working with Brendan and Josh?
Briem: Oh, great. We had a lot of fun together, because obviously, there's only three characters in the movie, which I think is really wonderful that as an audience, you can just watch three people go on this journey through this incredible world and adventure. That's something that I enjoyed as much as an actor as I hope the audience enjoys having the advantage of only having three people to follow. I think that's a really beautiful thing in storytelling. They're both gentlemen and sweethearts, so you look after each other in all these dangerous situations we were in.
CS: I heard they got really creative with the freefall scene, so can you talk about how many days it took to shoot that where you hanging around trying to get that scene right?
Briem: We did a few different angles on that scene. I think it was actually four or five days spread out that we shot that scene, probably the most dramatic one was that they pulled us up in these enormous wires and we were hanging on wires for the most of the day which is great. Flying is awesome! And then they had these enormous fans on the bottom of the stage where they were firing up at us to recreate that sense of you falling. They built these special chairs that we were sitting on and we had to perfect our arm movements as if we were falling somehow, which is where my flamenco dance training came in handy. I was trying to teach the boys how to conduct themselves in a flamenco style. We had a lot of fun through that. Then it comes to the point where we start to encounter the water, so there was a little bit of water splashing going on until we actually recreated a water slide for the midpoint until we immerse ourselves in the water.
We were literally thrown and pulled on those wires and we were pulled along this enormous water slide with water splashing everywhere. All the while, wind is aggressively blowing into our faces and up our um beings, and then it came to the underwater stuff, which is incredible because it photographs so incredibly beautifully in 3D. That was actually a really funny day because we did the underwater stuff so it was my turn to dive underneath this monster of a rock and I'm supposed to come up like the boys but my backpack drags me down. I had this very long scene where I'm swimming across and underneath this rock, then I have a moment where I'm drowning. I have a lot of experience with diving fortunately, so I was telling the producers, "It's fine. I'm actually trained and good at this," and they were terrified and nervous about it. Then I swam through and said, "Okay, I'm going to show you how this is done and everybody relax. Watch this." So I went in and I dove through and I'm doing my drowning bit and my backpack is dragging me down, and all of a sudden, I can see from six different directions, these black dots shooting in towards me and pulling me and it was the security divers, they thought I was drowning. I nearly injured some of them and they said, "We thought you were drowning." Well, that was the point, so we did it again and they left me to drown in peace. They nearly drowned me by trying to save me! Thanks a lot, guys.
CS: What other projects do you have coming up?
Briem: I'm about to go into filming a movie called "The Storyteller" and I'm going to be filming with Wes Bentley. It is a lovely story of my character and his character, I play an agoraphobic. I'm the illustrator to his writer and we have a beautiful relationship, but I never leave the house, so everybody surrounding him, his friends and his family, believe I'm a figment of his imagination.
Journey to the Center of the Earth opens nationwide including Digital 3D theaters on Friday, July 11.


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Designed for all professional applications, the amazingly affordable Nady 401X Quad wireless mic system gives you the mics, the transmitters, and receivers for 4 independent wireless channels-all in a single rackspace unit. Full-featured operation, quality RF and audio, and rackmount convenience.
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4 independent VHF receivers in one convenient, rugged, all-metal single rack space housing"makes operating 4 wireless systems at the same time easier than ever
Front dual antenna jacks for either onboard or remote antennas
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Rear panel individual XLR Output jacks, volume and RF mute controls for each of the 4 channels, and 4-Channels-Mixed AF Out 1/4" phone jack
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This may be a bit of old news but it is worth talking about. Amazon has bought Twitch. Yeah, that's right – AMAZON.
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If given the choice to watch football on TV or go play football outside, which would you choose? Most people would respond by sinking deeper into the couch and turning up the volume. Is that the way gaming is going as well?


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The Magic Position has been The Magic Position since the summer of 2011 but since I'm an idiot and forgot to renew the blasted thing, the blog is back to being emmanorris.blogspot.ie. That'll have to do for now while I weigh up my finances and try to figure out if it's worth €55 plus commission on GoDaddy.com to get themagicposition.net back. The rate at which I'm posting these days doesn't lend itself to a private domain name but I'd gotten used to having my own slice of the internet. However, I'm poor and my list of priorities is astonishingly long. (Blogging ends up somewhere in the bottom ten. College, cakes and clothes are considerably higher.) A private domain name isn't particularly important in the world of blogging and the only reason I'm concerned about it is because I'd gotten so used to it.
Anyway, in other parts of my brain, I'm concerned about how I'm going to survive Fourth (and final) Year at college. Despite selling strawberries by the side of the road all summer long, I'm still pretty much penniless (in the Great Scheme of Things). I'm currently plotting and scheming and trying to figure out how much my body's worth to the friendly neighbourhood perverts (€3 a go?).
Also in the line of fire (metaphorical: I'm silently fuming at everyone today) is Littlewoods Ireland. I bought a Nook off eBay in June and subsequently broke it a couple of weeks later (because I'm an idiot). I bought a replacement Nook on LittlewoodsIreland.ie along with a cute pink cover for a not unreasonable €60. Almost a month later and I still haven't received the items, despite numerous phonecalls to the company. I'd been planning to get cracking on some reading for college and instead I'm reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix for the thousandth time. I still haven't gotten any real answers from Littlewoods, apart from that they'd been getting on to the couriers. This is the first time I've bought anything from Littlewoods and it's definitely the last.
I have a handful of other issues that are driving me demented at the moment but they're hardly worth the effort of typing. In order to lift myself out of this foul mood I'm in, I'm going to go make some cupcakes. And then eat them all.
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3 Lessons on Behavior Change from Pokémon Go
The standard fitness tracker calls for 10,000 steps, but a 2010 study found that the average American only takes half as many paces per day: 5,117. Of course, that research was conducted well before Niantic launched Pokémon Go.
Ever since the augmented reality game exploded into our lives more than a month ago — it remains close to the top of the iOS app store, with a related Pokémon radar detector not far behind — it seems like it's all anybody in the industry is talking about. But while many of the conversations are about location data, what about the fitness tracker data? As people try to collect eggs and battle in PokeGyms, they're moving around a lot more.
Looking at data from 35,000 users, the founders of Cardiogram, an Apple Watch app that analyzes heart rate, found a surge in activity during the weekend Pokémon Go launched. On Wednesday, July 6, about 45% of users were getting at least half an hour of exercise per day, a number that's been fairly consistent over the previous few weeks. But that Saturday, July 9, about 50% of users were exercising 30 minutes or more. On Sunday, it rose to 53%.
See also: How Can Marketers Best Unleash the Potential of Virtual Reality?
Though every Cardiogram user may not necessarily be a Pokémon player, the game is popular enough that it can't be a coincidence. Similarly, Jawbone data shows that people mentioning Pokémon Go in their comments have been walking 62.5% more than usual.
One of Cardiogram's co-founders compared the spike in activity to that first week in January when diet- and exercise-related New Year's resolutions are at the top of mind.
In becoming what might be the stealthiest health-related behavior change app, Niantic didn't seem like they were trying to make people change the way they acted — they just did. How?
1. They made it about the experience, not about the money.
When it comes to changing behavior, every marketer talks about putting the customer first, but in practice, a lot of marketers fail to put their money where their mouths are. There are far too many products and services — created by brands — that prioritize sales over experience. Because those games are typically so branded and obvious, they're rarely fun. In developing Pokémon, Niantic took the opposite approach. It created an enjoyable game first, and then developed ways to generate revenue.
Just because money came second doesn't mean that Niantic wasn't hoping to make any. It has — the game has reportedly been earning about $1.7 million each day just from Apple devices in the U.S. That's not factoring all the other countries where the game is available, such as Japan, where developers discovered another revenue source: sponsored locations. Within weeks of the game's launch, more than 3,000 McDonald's locations throughout the country became PokeGyms.
The point is, Niantic didn't handicap the experience on the quest to make money. The developers created a great experience and then made it financially sustainable, which echoes the trajectory of social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. Creating a great experience, establishing scale, providing utility, and becoming a part of people's lives were the initial priorities. After that, they figured out how to monetize it. Without all those other elements, what they were creating was worthless.
2. They listened to their people.
Pokémon Go may have exploded in popularity seemingly out of nowhere, but Pokémon has been around for 20 years. The game had a history and an enthusiastic fanbase — Pokémon tweeted a picture of three costumed trainers at Pokémon's National Championships a few days before the game went viral and still got 1,600 likes.
If you're a brand marketer, chances are, your fans are out there. But do you know why they love you? Or what you are doing that really excites them? If you're not doing so already, listen to them!
Knowing the answers to these kinds of questions will help guide how you go to market and ensure you don't try to create an experience or product that nobody cares about in the first place. Think about the data you have (or need) that can help you to better understand what makes your loyalists tick (and why they're loyalists in the first place). Are there behavioral patterns of success based on past performance? Attitudinal or emotional in the words they use?
See also: Why Medical Education Needs More Creativity
These data inputs are a critical part of the creative process, as is being open to exploring the unexpected places that the data may take you. Last year, for example, when we at Wunderman Health were helping take GlaxoSmithKline's Flonase Allergy Relief over-the-counter, we had no idea how much our loyalists liked animals. After running an activation in the spring, however, and looking at performance and consumption data on all the content we created, it became obvious. So much so, that we worked with our clients to create another activation in the fall that was only about pets and the results surpassed everything we established in the spring.
Lastly, and especially for a health brand, if you're asking for and collecting this kind of data it's important to be transparent about why you are and what you're planning to do with it. At launch, some Pokémon Go users inadvertently gave the app access to their entire Google accounts. While that has since been rectified, it no doubt raised questions about trust and privacy. Imagine how you would feel if the same thing happened with your health data.
3. They created scarcity and made it competitive.
Creating some kind of reward increases the likelihood that people will change their behavior, but that reward doesn't have to be a tangible thing. It can be as simple as beating your friends. Look at Fitbit, for example, and how by introducing a competitive element (tracking steps), the brand got people excited about something as mundane as walking.
The "special sauce" of Pokémon Go is scarcity. By limiting the availability of certain Pokémon, it feeds into the human desire to achieve something challenging and also to have something that's rare. All of this results in a more competitive and addictive game, which not only leads to greater bragging rights and social engagement, but more game participation and physical engagement.
Changing behavior is really hard, but Pokémon Go has shown us how effective games — particularly ones that are fun, rooted in insights, and put the customer experience first — can be both a motivator and a tool. What's most impressive is that Niantic wasn't trying to change anyone's physical behavior. At least I don't think so. The developers simply created something that was fun and competitive, and people were motivated to change their behavior, be more active, and, ultimately, a little bit healthier, as a result.
William Martino is managing director at Wunderman Health in New York.


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Volleyball Falls To Hartford, 3-2
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WORCESTER, Mass. – With the Crusaders trailing 24-18 in the fourth set and facing five match points, they then won eight straight to force a fifth and deciding set, but the Hawks were able to secure the match by winning the fifth as the Holy Cross volleyball team fell to Hartford, 3-2, at the Holy Cross Field House on Tuesday night by scores of 22-25, 25-21, 25-19, 24-26 and 15-5. With the loss, the Crusaders fall to 0-10 overall, while the Hawks improve to 4-8 overall.
Junior Christiana Blakeslee (Ashtabula, Ohio) and sophomore Hannah Grace Stokes (Atlanta, Ga.) each posted double-doubles. Blakeslee tallied 24 assists and 10 digs for her second career double-double, while Stokes totaled 16 assists and 12 digs for her first double-double of the season and the 10th of her career. Senior captain Megan Lynch (Mendham, N.J.) led the Crusaders with 15 kills and freshman Emily Oliver (Carlsbad, Calif.) posted nine kills. Senior captain Elizabeth Watters (San Francisco, Calif.) secured 25 digs, while Blakeslee and Oliver each totaled four blocks.
The Hawks had three players with double-doubles. Sareeta Nethersole tallied 17 kills and 17 digs, Dionna Kirton posted 12 kills and 14 digs, and Jackie Tamburri totaled 45 assists and 12 digs. The Hawks had five players with double-digit digs as Saara Carissimi had 13 digs and Kami Nethersole posted 10. Lindsay Anderson was strong at the net with five blocks.
The Crusaders took the first set by a score of 25-22 as Lynch led the team with seven kills. With the second set tied at 20-20, Hartford won five of the last six points to earn a 25-21 victory. Kirton secured the win with a kill on set point. The Hawks won the third set, 25-19, and were led by Kirton who tallied four kills. With the Crusaders down 24-19 in the fourth set, sophomore Heather Roberts (San Jose, Calif.) posted a kill. Following an attack error by the Hawks, Oliver tallied a kill and then the Crusaders forced another error to make the score 24-22. Holy Cross then tied the set at 24-24 with kills by Roberts and Oliver. After an attack error by the Hawks gave the Crusaders a set point, Oliver forced a fifth set with a kill giving the Crusaders a 26-24 win. Roberts posted six kills for the set and Oliver tallied five. The Hawks jumped out to a 12-3 lead in the fifth. After two points by the Crusaders, the Hawks won the last two including clinching the five-set victory with a kill by Kathryn Gawrych on match point.
The Crusaders return to action when they travel to Smithfield, R.I., to compete in Bryant's Hampton Invitational on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 14-15. On Friday, the Crusaders will play Akron at 6:00 p.m., while on Saturday they will meet Northern Kentucky at 10:00 a.m. and Bryant at 7:00 p.m.


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NOTE: This was the Universe Today's contribution to April Fools Day (April 1st), but it isn't all a joke… International efforts in space are being seriously hindered by budget cuts, forcing agencies to think up alternative methods to raise money. The following article could be a possibility…
In an effort to raise additional funds, NASA has announced new partnerships with corporate sponsors. It is becoming increasingly difficult for government-backed space agencies to support the vast range of missions currently exploring the solar system, so urgent measures are being taken. Planetary missions in particular, such as the Mars Exploration Rover project, have fallen on tough times. As already demonstrated by research groups in the UK, funds from private companies are essential for survival and some weird and wonderful methods to capture public interest have already been exploited.
Now it is the perfect time for the biggest marketing stunt yet: tattoo Mars with corporate logos for orbiting spacecraft and ground-based telescopes to observe…
With millions of dollars being injected into the commercial space market, companies such as Virgin Galactic, Astrium and XCOR are all beginning to dominate the fledgling space flight industry. Where government space agencies such as NASA and ESA have spearheaded technological advancement, the void left behind is slowly being filled by space tourism companies all competing for short trips into space and, eventually, tours to the Moon with the prospect of Mars in a few decades time.
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Although there is a slim-to-no-chance of aliens picking up the interstellar ad, NASA was obviously paying attention. Today, the space agency has announced an offbeat plan of their own: to burn sponsor logos into the surface of Mars. It's not quite as reckless as it sounds, but existing technology on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will be used to etch sponsor logos into the top layers of the Martian regolith. The stunt is expected to have minimal effect on the planet, as winds and dust storms will erase the ads within a couple of sols (Martian days).
"Just think, 3 years ago, we wouldn't have the optical capabilities to spot an advertisement from orbit. But now, with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and its ability to resolve objects as small as half a meter, we'll be able to see our sponsors ads clearly etched into the Martian surface." – Dr. Francis Rae, NASA Outreach Spokeswoman.
The MRO has a laser-ranging instrument on board that usually takes highly accurate measurements of landscape features. Scientists have modified the laser to emit a higher powered beam so small areas of Martian regolith can be fused together. It is expected to use the surplus power available from the ultra-efficient solar panels on the satellite. After a few orbits, corporate logos and other ads may be constructed, creating logos spanning small 5×5 meter areas of Mars plains and crater bottoms. Of course, the logos created will be crude, and will only be available in shades of red, but the marketing and psychological impact will be huge. It is hoped the advertising revenue will follow suit.
This is only for starters. If all goes well, huge areas of the surface may be used, possibly allowing Earth-observable logos. Doritos, famed with the UK's ad transmission into space, has already backed NASA's plans and fully intends to support any marketing campaign carried out by the robotic explorers. An excerpt from a Pepsi Co, Inc. statement reads, "…the Doritos snack division of our corporation is always looking for new and novel ways to promote our products, branding an alien planet with our logo will not only be historic, it will revolutionize product marketing." They add at the bottom of the press release, "Besides, it will be very cool." An artists impression of a huge Doritos logo next to a crater observed by the MRO (HiRISE instrument) has also been released (pictured).
Other Mars missions are now being evaluated for their potential marketing skills, and an obvious mission that comes to mind are the Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. Easier than tattooing the planet from orbit, the rovers could quickly create tire tracks into shapes that can be observed from space.
When asked whether the Phoenix lander had any such capability, Rae commented, "I really wish we'd thought that through better." The lander will only be able to dig crude shapes into the regolith should it be called into fund-raising action. It seems doubtful that sponsors would be interested in this mission which is arriving at the Red Planet in May.
This leads to the question: Will a NASA mission be measured more for its revenue building ability, or for its scientific merit? "I doubt it will come to that, we're not a private enterprise, science is our priority," Rae added.
Other marketing tools are at mission planners' fingertips. Some fun options include:
- Physically moving rocks around the Martian landscape by future advanced rovers to assemble messages, take photos and send them back to Earth – the ultimate personal postcard message!
- The future of terraforming the planet could include growing lichen in the shape of sponsor logos (imagine how much Pizza Hut would pay to have the very first life on Mars growing in the shape of their hut logo!)
- Send a personal item on a Mars-bound mission and get the lander to place it on the planet, take a photo and pay for the pleasure of seeing something you own in the Martian dirt! Just don't expect it back… (An orbital version has already been done by Bigalow Aerospace…)
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April Fools
I saw this headline and sat there stunned… then I remembered today's date.
Happy April Fool's Day!
Thanks for this story 🙂 Stunned me for minutes 🙂
Happy April 1st
Fight Club anyone?
"When deep space exploration ramps up,
it'll be the corporations that name everything.
The IBM Stellar Sphere.
The Microsoft Galaxy.
The Planet Starbucks."
Great Ian,
as a fan of your reports I like each of them.
This one is another example in a long row of scientific excellent writer cradftsmanship.
The idea is so brilliant.
Will they also find a way to make it light emitting ?
Lets say bake with that laser a fluorescent crystal with the ad ?
I love these fiction reports.
keep them coming
Ha ha happy April Fools Day. Nice joke
I don't know what's more impressive… that he wrote it, or that it's one of the longer articles I've seen ><
Happy April fool's day
I think the joke was revealed too soon, spoil sports! I agree with Steve, would have been good if it lasted a little longer without people blowing the lid off the story. Oh well, good try 🙂 Hehe, thanks Francis Rae for your invaluable statement in the story, muchly appreciated 😉
Cheers, Ian
PS. I actually think advertising on Mars would be an interesting idea… lets see if NASA is listening…
Thats a lot of effort just for an April fools joke.
I don't understand why everyone thinks it's a joke. Our own planet has been nothing but a billboard for aliens for quite some time. What do you think crop circles are?
think of all the dorito cults about chip eating aliens that'll spawn 5,000 years from now. there lives are in your hands!!
I think we should duplicate some of the crop circle designs seen in England, so that when the Martians come out of their houses in the morning, they'll know we're on to them!
Arrgh. You got me. And I woke up this morning with every intention not to fall for this kind of thing.
Uh…this is an April Fools joke, right?
Well that's great.., but when will NASA and the rest of the world start focusing on more serious topics? Like the eradication of DHMO, for example. Dihydrogen Monoxide kills thousands of people every year. In fact, in the year 2004 alone, at least 300,000 people died from this deadly chemical compound. Get the word out! We must get this killer substance banned and keep it off of our planet once and for all!!
The sad thing is, I can see this happening in a couple of decades.
Still, good one!
tsk tsk to all those that actually said "haha, happy April fools day". The real enjoyment would have come from the idiot that would have responded with: "we need to prevent this at all costs to preserve the Martian environment!"
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I heard that Kraft is hoping to build a cheese theme park on the moon. And isn't the Mars candy company planning something big for their Milkyway bar?
Thank GOD its April Fools Day! I was about to lose my breakfast all over the place!!
But yes I wont be surprised to see things like this in the future; people tend to give in to the most absurd things for advertisers. I hate marketing and advertising in all its forms.
Aw, man, I was all ready to rant about this one!! You got me!
Okay, this is clearly an April Fools joke (and I hope NASA is NOT listening!).
However, I've been wondering about the TV and billboard ads I've seen recently, suggesting that a beer company will be projecting "moonvertising" on the full moon using green lasers.
Somebody please tell me that, too, is a joke.
Ha ha *sarcasm*. Having read all this my hopes were getting high. Actual advertisement on Mars wouldve been like saying that actual human Mars exploration wouldve been possible sooner than later. But lo and behold, I forgot what day it was.
Yahoo needs an idea-man like you Ian!
That was a good one, Fraser. Thanks. My eyes are watering, as if from an Onion.
No joke….just wait.
Cute, I mean really, Happy April's Fool to you also. BUT, don't forget how soon sky-writing became a commercial industry that helped fund aviation.
You look up, just after the sun sets, you see Marry Me Bertha! glaring as ionized gas in NEO. How hard to design a "smoker" satellite with retros configured for complex manuvering?
My bet is we see such within 25 years, or less, maybe much less. Hopefully they design an eraser for the biggest chalkboard ever.
I'm glad it's April Fool's Day because that would be a horrible idea! Disfiguring some clean planet's environment with ugly logos that no one finds appealing…I don't think nearly enough people would be looking on the surface of Mars for it to be worth it for the company anyway.
This arrived in my inbox on April 2nd…
For all of those who missed the "unmissable" the BBC broadcast an excellant film of Peguins flying to South America for their holidays. The film was so realistic that many people were fooled.
Nice try, Frazer *lol*
I had actually heard they were going to put the Nike tick symbol on the moon.
What a bunch of Lunatics!
I think it's an obscene move. We are such a self-consumed race of people that we should imprint
symbols of our own disease of consumerism on such
places as our neighbor, Mars….. amazing.
Wow. This one really had me worked up, heh a real scare.
I know it was a joke, but does anyone else feel that there is something very inherently wrong with marking other planets with brand names (one of the lowest common denominators of our culture)?
The idea is not very far fetched. International business certainly has the money to be big players in space exploration, and might indeed prove an attractive last resort for underfunded government projects.
But imagine the history books in the decades after. Michael Maniaci's quoting of Fight Club is a good example of what it might sound like:
"When deep space exploration ramps up,
it'll be the corporations that name everything.
The IBM Stellar Sphere.
The Microsoft Galaxy.
The Planet Starbucks."
That's one surreal April Fool's gag
The guys who are serious about tattooing the Moon or Mars must be on drugs.
I was about [ ] this close to believing the article (ok I believed it).
I was thinking to myself "Yeah, great. Aliens come to the Solar System, make a pitstop at Mars and find Doritos, Pepsi, etc. logos. Why don't they burn images of Einstein, Newton and Darwin into Mars?" And then the April Fools thing comes up. Dammit!
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Hawk is a common name for several species of diurnal birds of prey from widely separate families.
Hawk is a common name for several species of diurnal birds of prey from widely separate families. These birds are superficially alike, being smaller than eagles and having large, keen eyes, hooked bills and sharp, curved talons. True hawks belong to the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles and Old World vultures and contains over 288 species worldwide. Females of all species are considerably larger than males. Ten species of true hawk breed in Canada.
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