December 29, 2006

Geostationary Banana Over Texas

There is currently an art project underway to place a gigantic banana in the Texas sky. The object will float between the high atmosphere & Earth's low orbit, being visible only from the state of Texas & its surroundings.

To be constructed out of bamboo and balsa-wood with onboard gyroscopes, the banana will be clearly visible from the ground day and night. (via metafilter)

Posted by clunkyrobot at 9:02 AM | art & design cosmology | Comments (6)

Comments

That sculpture gives my life meaning.

Posted by: Josh at December 29, 2006 5:56 PM

Oh Jesus, that is frickin nuts. Awesome! I have my doubts that these guys will be able to get the funding, though.

Posted by: rp at December 29, 2006 5:58 PM

how confusing. this is going to make children insane. how will they ever know what is real, and what is a banana in the sky?

Posted by: ak at December 30, 2006 9:24 PM

It fascinates me that Canadians with a Hong-Kong-hosted website want to make a Texan space bananana.

Posted by: Rob at December 31, 2006 1:46 AM

all pics/art work depicting texas from now on should have a banana in the sky.

Posted by: ablebody at December 31, 2006 5:43 PM

I actually hope they fail. If they succeed it will be about 2 nanoseconds before Coke, Pepsi, McDonald's, Nike, and Microsoft logos are floating all over the sky.

Posted by: Overdroid at January 5, 2007 4:14 PM