Mexico to Yahoo: No Frickin’ Laser Beams
After granting Yahoo a permit to use the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan for a giant slideshow of photos submitted to its digital time capsule, it pulled the permit for fears that beaming light on it may somehow damage the structure. Humph. Yahoo is now looking at other sites, as long as it is anywhere but Mexico.
From Reuters here:
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Lasers on our pyramid? No way!
Yahoo Inc. said on Wednesday it dropped plans to use Mexico’s Teotihuacan archaeological site for its much-hyped “time capsule” project after authorities fearing damage to the ancient ruins denied them permission.
Yahoo launched the project this week aimed at gathering text, images, video and sounds submitted by visitors from all over the world through 20 of the company’s multi-language sites.
The information was to be beamed by laser into space on October 25 from the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan, once the center of a sprawling pre-Hispanic empire, in an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life.
“We did have the permit, but Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) told us Monday night that it could not be done,” Manuel Mazzanti, head of marketing at Yahoo Mexico, said on Wednesday.
Yahoo’s Mazzanti said the company was looking for another launch site for the event but had ruled out Mexico.
