I am pretty sure it's in their terms in conditions. I think it's just funny cause in germany they adverstise as logistic experts and then send me 4 emails on 4 days that it couldn't be delivered today and then lose the package on the fith day@@goldgeologist5320
In Germany DHL for the most of the time is very reliable (together with prime) however when it comes to Hermes…dear Lord. I’m not religious person but if my package is being delivered with Hermes I always start praying 😂
DHL: We threw it in the creek! Your package was thrown in or around a creek several blocks from your home at 4:20 yesterday morning. Thank you for using DHL.
This reminds me of an old joke: Reagan assistant is entering the Oval Office and says: - Mr President, the Russians started painting moon red. Should we do something? -No, replies Reagan and returns to reading some paper. Assistant returns in some time and says: - they painted the half of the moon red already! Shouldn't we intervene? - No, says the president calmly and returns to his papers. Assistant comes for the 3rd time and reports: Mr President, they painted the whole moon red. - Good, answers Reagan, now send our boys and paint Coca-Cola over it.
I remember another one from the end of cold war era. Yeltzin's assistant entering to his office. -Mr President, The Coca Cola company asks if it's possible to change the russian flag back to the red one. - I don't mind, but first find out when our contract with Aquafresh ends.
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I was going to comment the same joke but you beat me to it.
An important fact about this is it used vector graphics and no hidden line removal, so, you could read 12939 from the opposite side, mirroring the text and making PEPSI obvious.
Parcel tracker: "Your package has been delivered" - picture of fireball curving back to Earth. Well, it makes difference from a picture of some unknown other front doorstep.
The famous movie "2001: A Space Odyssey", portraying in year 1968 the world as it would be in the year 2001: Both the US and the USSR had their bases on Luna, with a common Space Station. The flights from Earth to Luna, and the shuttle services on Luna itself, aren't a prerogative of any government, but of... Pan Am. At the time, Pan Am - with their blue logo and white hats - did good business and was the unofficial US flag carrier, and nothing would indicate that, about 22 years later - in 1991 - it would cease operations. Pan-am was the most evident advertising job in the movie. And maybe, the UK Dorchester Hotel, in a room with two statues reconstructed from the memories of David Bowman...
@@pattheplanter well, two years ago you thought he was great, so think back to when they told you to like him. They you will understand the humor. And thanks for the inflation
4:15 "never seen anyone vomit quite so much" Poor guy! But honestly I spend the next few minutes laughing about it, almost sounds like the cosmonauts was both scared and impressed 😆
They should have known about the wet burps. The first few Apollo crews drank fuel cell water that had dissolved hydogen gas, causing GI distress. A Pd-Ag hydrogen separator solved the problem on Apollo 12 onwards.
@@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv Not sponsored content, no, but I don't see any ads inserted by youtube. They can't stop me from skipping through their promotions, though, and if they try I'll simply drop their channel.
@@Skorpychan It is still advertising. Some channels DO have special advertiser sponsored videos. Most that have sponsors have them their regular videos.
For some very early humorous takes on advertising in space, check out two stories by iconic Sci-fi writers Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick. Asimovs' contribution is 1958's "Buy Jupiter" and Dick's contribution is 1954's "Sales Pitch". Both written before space travel became a thing.
Heinlein was already exploring ideas for commercialisation of space in his 1950 novella "The Man Who Sold the Moon", including engineering competition between the fictional Moka Coka and 6+ brands to raise funds.
And rather than working out the logistics of painting the company logo on the moon, he got both companies to pay him _not_ to paint the rival company’s logo.
Yesss, I love the Gnome Chompski reference at the end. You are correct, he was in HL2 Ep 2. There was an achievement to pick him up at the start and carry him the whole way through the game and launch him on the rocket at the end.
@@y2kkmac Did an internet sat hurt your family? Last time I checked they are helping bring good internet to rural people which to me far outweighs the negative of it maybe ruining some astronomy stuff.
Chinese private launch service seems to always have a lot of advertisement sponsor. The recent Gravity-1 launch have HLA a clothing brand logo on them. Recent CAS Space Kinetica-1 also launch cup noodle into space as well. I think there was once Galactic Energy Ceres-1 rocket launch with bank advertisement.
Woops my mistake CAS Space is just “commercial” company rather than private company. But it show that even government related launch service still do advertisement.
There is also the question of whether commercial products being used in space constitutes as advertising. Certainly Hassleblad's reputation wasn't hurt by supplying cameras for NASA... even if NASA had to heavily modify them to work with the space suits.
Well, that's basically the line walked by a lot of modern "influencers", isn't it? If they're endorsing a product they genuinely find useful, it's perceived a lot differently to "they paid me to advertise this load of crap".
@@simongeard4824 I think its pretty clear that if you have a massive following and you show a product on your page, it's an advertisement because A: everything they do is a commercial, and B: regardless of whether they are getting "paid" the real reason they are doing that is because they hope to get a case of it in the mail. Influencer culture is 300000% commercial and fake (regardless of how "authentic" everyone thinks they are) and you cannot convince me otherwise.
@@patreekotime4578Copy stuff to your notes before you post it, and check back after ~30 seconds, if it's still there, then good. If it isn't, then edit it to remove language that advertisers might not approve of and try again.
I thought the first commercialism in space was Spaceballs The Lunchbox, Spaceballs The Breakfast Cereal, and Spaceballs The Flamethrower...the kids love that one... 😉
I think I remember an Arthur C Clarke short story where a moon mission squirts vaporized sodium out of the moons shadow and the 'curly letters of a well known brand of soft drink' fluoresce across the moon being clearly visible from earth. Still waiting for that.
I remember that, thought it was neon to give the appropriate red colour. And another story Heinlein or maybe Colin Kapp where the stranded astronauts in a grain ship essentially brewed beer as a propellant.
Yep, referencing a cola that came in a "distinctive wasp-waste bottle," i.e., definitely Coke. And the poor commander of the ship that brought that particular experiment was so shamed by it happening on his watch that now, instead of his favorite cola, he'll only drink beer when he goes out -- and he hates beer!
@@Oldtanktapper "Watch this Space" was the fifth of a six part "Venture to the Moon" series published in 1956. I read that in the collection titled "More than One Universe" first published in 1991.
I forget the title, but one of Arthur C Clarke's early short stories was about an advertising coup where a rocket experiment was illicitly modified to eject a liquid (molten sodium perhaps?) through a nozzle to produce a large glowing C**a Cola sign visible from the surface in the night sky. The perpetrator was well paid of course.
Reminds me of the movie, "The Astronaut Farmer". He needed funding so he went around his town to get sponsorships, including Dunkin' Donuts. Great movie and great scene. Worth a watch.
I love Pocari Sweat. Nothing like it to bring you back to life after a rough night. Probably one of my favorite discovered products while sailing the indo-pacific.
A lot of other comments saying you "forgot" about the tesla in space but considering space x is entirely commerical and musk partially owns both its not especially remarkable and I'm not surprised you left it out. Cola that makes you vomit though, that's the stuff!
Not that it was commercial, but during the rendezvous of Gemini VII and Gemini VIA in December 1965, signs were held up. "At one point, Schirra, who was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy along with Lovell and Stafford, held up a sign in the capsule window that read, “Beat Army,” referencing a 7-7 tie in the annual Army-Navy Game that year. Borman, a no-nonsense graduate of the U.S. Army’s United States Military Academy at West Point had the last laugh. “Frank Borman topped me, though, darn it, if you’ll remember that,” Schirra recalled in an oral history. “He said, ‘Look at that sign. It says, “Beat Navy.” The heck it does!”
"They weren't supposed to be big on money-making commercialism, but they needed the money." I'm reminded of something A. Whitney Brown once said on SNL just after the breakup of the USSR: "Whoever thought that the fatal flaw of communism would turn out to be that there's no money in it."
It makes sense when you think about the physics of it, but it never occurred to me that burping would be problematic in zero G. Even when consuming plain water and regular space food, you'd have to be careful not to swallow too much air.
I just saw the photo in your thumbnail from ares67's NSF threads about shuttle missions! (ran into some Jordin Kare music mentioned, too). Those threads are a history gold mine
Old Hungarian joke about space advertising from the 1980s: An aid runs into the white house: - Tell the president the Russians are painting the moon red. - OK, don't worry A day later the guy comes again - Tell the president the Russians have already painted half the moon red. - OK, no problem. Next day the guy comes back in a panic - Tell the president the Russians have painted the moon completely red. - OK, get the NASA guys up there and let them paint Coca-Cola over the red circle.
Talking about NASA and its lack of advertising. I work for a NASA supplier and NASA uses our products in several ways. Getting permission from NASA to use even the NASA worm or meatball in an advertisement saying that our products are used by NASA is nigh on impossible. Just a press release that our product was being used in a new way took several months. But I guess that makes sense, you don’t want NASA astronauts flight suits looking like a NASCAR driver.
Thanks. I wish I could pin your post to the top since so many people are confused by thinking that NASA using an off-the-shelf commercial product means they are advertising it.
Omega made of lot of watch sales for the Speed Master that they would have never made if it hadn't been used as the official issued watch of NASA astronauts.
Difference is, Omega advertised BECAUSE they were in space and the moon and contributed to mission success (Apollo 13). Pepsi and the others have nothing to do with spaceflight
Maybe not Scott's demographic but the Axiom Zero-G indicator is a 'build-a-bear' astronaut. That must have involved some serious money to get that included.
Sapporo has a brand of beer called Sapporo Sweat. Not sold outside of Japan that I recall seeing. Recall some sci-fi movies with brands on the spaceships (2001 (PanAM), Silent Running* (American Airlines), others...) *Bought the DVD a few years ago expecting the marvel I saw as a kid only to cringe at Dern's acting. We'll always have his sister at least...
Reminds me of this old space race era joke: "Apollo 11 to Houston. The Ruskis made it to the moon first ... and they are painting it red!" After a few moments: "Houston here. Do you have white paint on board?" - "Yes?" - "Wait until they are done and then write Coca-Cola on it."
For a fun foreshadowing of the "Cola War" decades before it happened, read Heinlein's 1949 novel "The Man Who Sold The Moon." The main character (D.D. Harriman who is essentially a P.T. Barnum type character) convinces "Moke Cola" that "6+" is planning to turn the Moon into a giant billboard for their soda, and vice versa. Thus, he convinces both to fund his plan to prevent that from happening. Without giving too much of the plot away, he does similar fear mongering with nations and other industries.
I had to laugh about the DHL logo on the Peregrine moon lander. DHL once again had failed to deliver to the correct address and lost the package. When ordering anything online I make sure they are not the shipper.
I find it hilarious that Pizza Hut once looked into projecting their logo onto the surface of the Moon for the whole planet to see--and only decided not to because of the cost, not because of the questionable ethics of such a stunt.
it would count as something private or well like that would be the intent but that is the thing, space is by law agreed to be public to everyone, so they can't claim anything to be private of them and if it is public anyone can interact with it in any way, so even if they had the means to do it, with current law, it wouldn't make any sense, either it wasn't a real consideration of the people that considered it were dumb dumb dumb, technically there is the chance the thing was proposed before such agreements were in place but that would mean the technology was even worse, like no matter how you look at it, it makes no sense
Gatorade now sells a Gatorade minus the sugar. Its awful... not the least because some flavors require a sweet component to make them recogmizable. Turns out if you take the sweet component out of orange flavor and add salt, you get... bloody mary mix. Which... would be fine if that is what you are expecting, but not when you expect orange.
@@patreekotime4578 Well we Pocari does not taste great, a bit salty and a spritz of citrus. We drink it because its usually well above 110-120F 45-50C, humidity 80%, so you drink what keeps you alive other than plain water.
@@SarahKchannel Sure. But Americans just want sugar water with magic health benefits. 🤣 And honestly, we want to eat stuff that will kill us faster but also to have the delusion that its healthy.
For a price, Delos D. Harriman, the man who sold the moon, offers to put commercial logos on the moon big enough to see from Earth to finance the conquest of space in a 1950 short story by science fiction writer Robert Heinlein.
9:50 "pie in the sky" Funny you should mention that. For your younger viewers, there's an old sci-fi story that had a different take on space advertising: "Pi in the Sky" by Fredric Brown. It appeared in "Thrilling Wonder Stories v26 n03 [1945-Winter]" and that magazine can be read on the Internet Archive. Yet another take on space advertising: "Buy Jupiter" by Isaac Asimov. And I'm sure there were others.
Imagine seeing a gigantic advertisement in the skies i the middle of the night... It would ruin astronomy. 😬 Thanks, Scott! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
As you already touched upon, "Art in Space" is another similar topic.... E.g. the "cosmic dancer on the mir space station" in 1993, there are videos of it on RU-vid.
I was searching the comments for Tang & SFS. I don't think SFS actually WENT to space. Tang MIGHT have. Tang was perfect for early spaceflight. It was dry (and lightweight) and could be easily rehydrated like MANY of the early foodstuffs. I vaguely "remember" it being touted as the "official drink of astronauts". Whether that's true or not will need some clarifying. I know my Dad *loved* the stuff, and was a huge space fan. They had the iconic orange flavor, but they also had GRAPE flavor for a while.
@@josephmelnick3446 According to Wikipedia, a "modified" version of Space Food Sticks were tested on Skylab 3. Tang was used quite a bit; almost every reference to "orange drink" is Tang.
@@josephmelnick3446 So I did a little searching. Tang was invented in 1959, but was a market penetration failure until it was used by NASA astronauts in flight for about a decade starting in 1965. These days, it is still an ongoing product, but apparently it is big in Brazil, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and the Philippines.
NASA using an off-the-shelf commercial product does _not_ mean they are advertising it, as Scott points out how NASA uses devices made by Apple does not mean NASA is advertising them. NASA buying commercial products like Tang, Hasselblad cameras, Fisher pens, etc. does not mean they are advertising them since they were never paid by the manufacturers to do so. If the manufacturers wanted to advertise that NASA uses their products they were free to do so but that would be done without NASA’s involvement.
re: Advertising in space. If you haven't, read "Watch this Space," part of Arthur C. Clarke's "Venture to the Moon" story series from 1956. The series describes the first expedition to the moon, a joint US/USSR/UK expedition, with a lunar atmosphere experiment that suffers a little commercially-oriented sabotage. I won't spoil the rest of the story.
This made me remember a part in Red Dwarf (I think the novel) where the Nova 5 is doing all this stellar engineering and it turns out the point is to set off all these stars to go nova timed to be visible from Earth to spell out "Coke Is Life," I think. Anyway, let's hope we never hit that point of nihilism.
Not sure why the FAA and FTC are so against ads in space, on spacecraft and so on. Good way to get extra $$$. I always thought the main fuel tank of the Space Shuttle was PRIME REAL ESTATE for ads. It was just so HUGE and ugly, why not put something on there that would have softened it a bit, maybe made it more appealing?
In the 1960's NASA promoted TANG as an astronaut drink on every flight and which was also promoted to the general public. TANG can still be purchased, but the NASA and astro connection has been forgotten. A fictional example of Space Advertising comes from the BBC TV Series Red Dwarf Lister, Cat, and Rimmer find the robot Kryten caring for the desiccated corpses of a ship's crew who were tasked with triggering a succession of Super Nova explosions that, when seen from Earth, all take place at the same time and depicting a product logo
Slight correction. The makers of Tang promoted it, not NASA so it doesn’t qualify for Scott’s video. NASA did say the astronauts drank it but that really doesn’t count as promotion since NASA was never paid by the makers of Tang to do so.
I am surprised there isn't more of this. Seems like a great way to offset some of the cost of going to space. You would think any major launch where there would be interest from a lot of people then an ad would be on the side of the rocket.
shooting things into space is still expensive enough that no company in the USA has lobbied to change the rules. For far less than the cost of a satellite and rocket launch a company can get more impact with a few ads during the Super Bowl at least when talking US audiences. Also the SB is the one time people actually watch the commercials.
Surprised you didn't mention Taco Bell. They didn't send anything up (that I know of) but when Mir was de-orbited, they put a target out in the ocean and promised to give a free taco to everyone in the US if MIR hit it. Of course, MIR did not hit it (the odds were literally astronomical) so no free tacos for us. However, Taco Bell did offer a consolation prize of 2 Tacos for $0.99
In the novelization of Red Dwarf, the Nova 5 was one of several interstellar spacecraft on a commercial mission to send carefully selected stars into supernova at the same apparent time from Earth so they read in blinding brightness, "Coke adds life!" It cost the same as the US military budget throughout history, though a marginally better way of blowing the money.
Ironic that I'm watching this vid during a time that RU-vid is driving me nuts by placing ads in the middle of videos, often about 1 every 5 minutes, which is very aggravating when it happens during music or narrative vids. Thanks commercialism!
