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Posted by djSlain on Nov-24-2001 19:39:

Paint the moon! Again! tonite

tonite...8pm pacific...11pm eastern....it's happening again

www.paintthemoon.org

bring out them laser pointers and lets paint the moon together. tonight is the final attempt, so let's make it good. over and out donuts

Posted by Flippe on Nov-24-2001 21:09:

I checked the page, but I don;t understand it

Posted by Spad on Nov-24-2001 21:10:

Hehe I remember reading about this a while back? Didn't it work the first few times round? I though they figured it would be impossible in the end?

Posted by djSlain on Nov-24-2001 21:23:

well, the last attempt REALLY SUCKED. i mean REALLY. About 1/2 the nation was filled with clouds, only allowing the far east coast to participate. And no, there was no visible glow on the moon. but tonite, we must all get together, use our Captain Planet rings, and point at the sky.

confusion? well it's just a simple art project involving you, a laser pointer and the moon. At 8pm PACIFIC, the whole nation will shine a laser pointer at the moon, attempting to create a red mark on the moon.
8pm pacific, and the rest of you follow accordingly(11pm eastern)

have fun!

Posted by davinox on Nov-24-2001 21:43:

can laser pointers go that far??

sweet...and you thought they were just good for annoying cats....

Posted by lMIlk on Nov-24-2001 21:53:

how many people actually know about this. I don't think they're bee enough people to do it but i'll do it anyway

Posted by Miss Proximus on Nov-25-2001 15:46:

I wonder if that's even possible? Can the lasers get that far? Or is it just that they colour the ozon layer? Or is the ozon layer gone above the USA?

Explain!!!!!

Posted by Ste on Nov-25-2001 15:57:

i explained this in the last thread im sure, someone said i was wrogn adn that laser beams never spread. naturalyl i laughed, and corrected them with a little story about men on the moon. adios.

Posted by RTP on Nov-25-2001 18:45:

I don't live in the states, but I think it won't work.
Let me do a bit of maths here. If you point your laser pointer on the moon the distance to go is about 380 000 km. If you only point your laser five kilometres away the red light point it produces won't be visible! This has to do with the lenses inside your pointer. So you think you point it at the moon, but the light it produces gets lost in space. Think a bit about it. If your theory with the laser pointer would be right then a car light would be visible from the moon. It sounds good, but in my eyes it won't work. If you're interested in I could give other examples why this is - in my eyes - impossible. Sorry ppl, but I can't believe it would work...

Posted by .montecarlo. on Nov-25-2001 21:28:

well...

did it work?

Posted by lMIlk on Nov-25-2001 23:04:

i doubt it

Posted by djSlain on Nov-25-2001 23:12:

quote:
Thanks to the thousands, perhaps millions, worldwide who participated in the two attempts. I have been touched by the way the idea has resonated with people of many countries, cultures, and faiths. In this crazy and too-often ugly world to have something which brings people together to share an artistic dream is a rare gift, and I thank all of you for making it possible. It has been a phenomenal artistic success, even though we did not accomplish the technical aspect of the project. Indeed, as many people said, that was almost beside the point of the deeper goals of the project..

If you participated in either of the attempts, and have not yet sent me a report, please do so. Or if you have further thoughts on the project that you would like to share, I'd like to have them. I plan on documenting the project with your comments.

Quite a number of people have written asking me to schedule other attempts, or make this an annual or even monthly event. At this point I am not planning any such further attempts, and need to turn my attention to other projects. But if someone else wants to take this on, please contact me in the next week or so.

http://www.paintthemoon.org

Posted by JM on Nov-26-2001 00:15:

cant do it, why u ask?? read what it says after Location: <---to the left

>JM<

Posted by RTP on Nov-26-2001 16:00:

Hope u all won't nail me when I say that I think the whole thing is just a big hoax, like www.bonsaikitten.com ...

Sorry, but I still can't believe it. This image on that site could be edited with photoshop or sumthing like that. I don't believe it, 'cause if thousands of people put their laser pointers on the moon the red points would be scattered over the whole moon surface that's viewable from the earth.
Did anyone see this red point with his/her own eyes?

Posted by djSlain on Nov-26-2001 16:02:

hehehe. that picture isn't real, its just some Photoshop to see what it might have looked like. and yes, we all fail both times trying to make that red dot.

Posted by Vivid Boy on Nov-26-2001 16:11:

see the problem is light bends in space......so eventhough ur pointing at the moon im sure its bending away from it.....physics my friend physics....like the suns light bends when it hits our atmosphere where we see the sun is not really where its at...i forget the details but its a proven fact.....i knew there was no possible way for this to work....but its still nice to see ppl have high hopes and come together