Trivia
HardWhat Product Was The First To Be Advertised Into Deep Space?
Answer: Doritos
While a portion of many terrestrial broadcasts have made it into space unintentionally as a side effect of the broadcasting process, it wasn’t until a promotional stunt by Frito-Lay that humanity sent an intentional advertisement into space.
In 2008, as a quirky promotion for their popular Doritos chips, Frito-Lay sponsored a fan-created advertisement contest. The winning short, a clever stop motion film created by Matt Bowron and John Addis from Highbury, London was not only the winning commercial shown here on Earth, but it was also broadcast into deep space.
On June 12, 2008, the winning ad was beamed, using the powerful radar array at the EISCAT Space Center in Svalbard, Norway, at a solar system in the Ursa Major constellation, 42 light years away from Earth. In 2050, any inhabitants of the distant solar system properly equipped to look for signals from alien worlds will be in for a treat.
Trivia
HardWhich Soda Company Briefly Owned A Sizable Naval Fleet?
Trivia
HardSci-Fi Author Ernest Cline Loaned His DeLorean To Fantasy Author George Martin In Exchange For?
Trivia
HardThe Eiffel Tower Was Saved From Demolition By What?
Trivia
HardWhat Ubiquitous Office Application Was Originally Mac-Only?
Trivia
EasyWhy Is Facebook’s Color Scheme Blue-On-Blue?
Trivia
HardWhich Mission Was The First And Only Time “Astronaut Ice Cream” Flew In Space?
Trivia
Very HardPeople Who Modify Their Bodies With Cybernetic Enhancements Are Known As?
Trivia
HardLong Before The World Wide Web French Citizens Enjoyed Online Banking And More Courtesy Of?
Trivia
HardBig Ben, The Famous Clock Of London’s Palace of Westminster, Is Calibrated Using?
Trivia
HardCrayola’s Iconic 64-Crayon Box Was Introduced On Which Of These TV Shows?
