FEEDBACK is keeping Saturday 27 October free. That’s when American artist
James Downey intends to paint the Moon red. His idea—he describes it as “a
collaborative work of celestial art”—is to ask millions of people to aim
their laser pointers at the Moon at the same time (11 pm if you live on the East
Coast of the US).
“For five minutes we can all touch the Moon, if only with our laser
pointers,” he says on www.paintthemoon.org.
But one thing stands in Downey’s way. The online magazine Space.com asked
Donald Umstadter, a laser expert at…
