Geostationary Banana over Texas

[Dudley]

Looking up bananas in Texas for Peterwolf, I stumbled across the link below.  

Um.  Is this the most barking idea ever?

Link: http://www.geostationarybananaovertexas.com/en.html" target="_blank">Geostationary Banana over Texas

[Peter Wolf]

 Theyre bananas. Too much money and too much time on their hands.A million quid to float a banana in the sky for a month as some sort of absurd artistic statement.The banality of a banana in the sky.

[Funt Solo]

As wastes of money goes, it's not as bad as bombing the shit out of Iraq for years on end - that's really expensive.

[Ignatzmonster]

Come peterwolf, not a million quid, a million dollars. At the present exchange rate I think that makes it about a hundred quid.

[Thursday]

Much as I hate to pick holes in such a genius plan, but doesn't a geostationary orbit require it to be above the equator?

Of course, if part of the plan is to realign the Earth's rotational axis so that Texas is on the equator then I'll be even more impressed.  

[Peter Wolf]

 Its just about exactly half. I like your board name.why not get an icon to go with it ?

[Ignatzmonster]

Don't know how.

[Peter Wolf]

  If you click on help on the top right menu on the messageboard, then there is a section called "how do i get an icon on the messageboard".It tells you how or send wake an email with your icon as an attachment then that works too.


 [     wake@2000adonline.com    ]

[Ignatzmonster]

Thanks peterwolf. Appear to be out of my depth however. What's a "pixel gifs"?

[Ignatzmonster]

Thanks peterwolf. Appear to be out of my depth however. What's a "pixel gifs"?

[mogzilla]

i sent the hellboy icon as an attachment to wake he then told me how to get it on. you go to the chat room(as far as i can remember) and type  

/iconx    (x being your icon,so i had to send /icon hellboy) hope thats useful,and correct for that matter!

i am a complete ignoramus with these things but even i managed.now if you want a gastrostomy button replacing i'm your man!

[Peter Wolf]

  Its computer jargon .32 pixels isnt very much detail.A pixel is an individual part of a digital image.The more pixels you have ,the more detail there is in the picture.The icon is 32 x32 pixels.This isnt very many at all.That is because of its small size.thats why if you try and enlarge a lot of the icons it doesnt work because there simply isnt enough digital information within the icon.You just see lots of large squares.

 with digital cameras a camera that has 7 megapixels when you take a picture with it that picture has 7,000,000 pixels in it.

   hope this helps.

[Huey2]

"Too much money and too much time on their hands"

'cept they don't have the money. Look further and you'll see the team are represented by silhuoettes and are mainly anonymous. They've also got the begging bowl handy as they're asking for sponsorship for this thing. Plus, they ain't even based in texas - Canada. Add to that the fact that the banana is based on a bamboo frame and yet they're advertising for a bamboo specialist.

I'm guessing that this is a wacky way to raise/con money out of folks who'll pledge a buck or two cos they appreciate the joke.

- Huey