So You Want to Carve an Ad Into the Moon

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In 2020, students from the University of Texas proposed sending a fleet of rovers to the Moon that, for a price, would carve words and symbols into the surface for *you*, random human. And that got us thinking, how big would such a message have to be for you to read it all the way from Earth?

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