WARNING - FAKE METEOR SHOWERWell why the hell not? They doing everything else fake these days :P
No They are NOT UFO's No' it's NOT and Alien Invasion (just to get that gone :P )
Want an impressive opening ceremony? 2020 Olympics may include man-made meteor shower.
So you send up a spaceship, fill it with a 1000 metal spheres of different elements and gases, and lauch the spheres towards earth...
VOILA Instant spectacular meteor shower of all colors;
SkyCanvas Promotion MovieQuoteCall it the world's best idea or worst idea, but it's sure to be something special. The Olympics may be all about athletic prowess, but its opening ceremonies have always been about showmanship. And what could be more spectacular than a man-made meteor shower?
A startup called Star-ALE is bidding for the right to create a meteor shower over the Japanese capital city of Tokyo, which will serve as the highlight of the 2020 Olympics opening ceremony. Because why use fireworks when you can create a light display visible across 120 miles of the country?
Star-ALE has dubbed the ambitious feat "Sky Canvas." It would rely upon a microsatellite that would shoot up to 1,000 pellets of various gasses and elements back toward Earth from outer space. Apparently, the company has tested this concept on Earth, placing pellets into a vacuum and hitting them with gas moving at supersonic speeds, creating an artificial environment similar to that of re-entering Earth's atmosphere. When the pellets come in contact with the heated gasses, the startup says, they burn and produce different colors. Theoretically, when these pellets are launched from outer space, they'll ignite when they're about 35 to 50 miles above our heads, and will be visible to around 30,000,000 people in Tokyo and its nearby areas.
"It is artificial but I want to make really beautiful (meteors) that can impress viewers," Lena Okajima, CEO and founder of ALE, said to AFP.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/tokyo-man-made-meteor-shower/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHvyz3h-rRo
http://star-ale.com