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I looked it up. NO body’s going to jack with my sunsets: Space marketing of Roswell, GA., announced in April 1991 what they touted as a bigger and better advertising device: a mile ­long floating billboard with a contractual lifespan of 30 days, after which its release would allow it to vaporize by ignition.

This feat of human ingenuity met its demise however at the hands of Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass. whose reaction was to propose a bill to prohibit such space marketing. Republican Sen. James Jeffords, R-Vt. and Rep. Susan Molinari, R-N.Y., supported the Markey bill and as a result sunsets will remain the same as we’ve grown accustomed to. I’m going to send them a painting.