Ever see schools of fish move in sequence? Ok, ever seen a cartoon where they spell out words, or form a big single fish or do some other kind of visual gag?

So you get a couple of hundred 2 foot long powered blimps that each have gps so they can go to exact locations in a matrix in the sky and form stuff. You then send them their preset programming to act as pixels in your sky movie.

For absolute windless days only of course, but I think it would make a real eye catching display. A swarm of these suckers fly over and start their routine you'd have everybody looking up. Great for sporting events.

A marriage proposal with these spelling out "Will you marry me (name of proposed bride)?" would have real panache.

One where you actually filled out her name would be even better.
-- doctorremulac3, Jan 25 2012

Like this http://www.youtube....watch?v=Le13by2WM70
Fast forward to about 18 seconds into the clip. And turn the sound off. The blue fish is really annoying. [doctorremulac3, Jan 25 2012]

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You could give the systems away cheap and use them to advertise dog food using the [doctor]'s idea [normzone, Jan 25 2012]

Yes.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jan 25 2012


"Ahhhh ... Bradwell, take the shotgun and the binoculars and pass me my Blimp rifle ..."

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-- 8th of 7, Jan 25 2012


Class!
-- gnomethang, Jan 25 2012



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