New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus

Post by user24 » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 12:51 PM UTC

davedx wrote: post #17

spodek wrote: post #3

Link-baity title, but warranted, I'd say. The story is that the government is launching a spy satellite with a logo on it featuring a "mascot" -- a giant Kraken-like octopus taking over the planet. Whoever created it could only have been thinking of their bureau's unchecked ability to do what it wanted and not the public's perception of it because the creature, especially its eye, looks menacing, ominous, foreboding,…

How is the title link-baity?

Post by pizza234 » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 1:03 PM UTC

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #15

timbro wrote: post #4

"NOTHING IS BEYOND OUR REACH" says their tag line. Let that sink in for a minute. It's the mindset of crazies.

Or the mindset of a spy sattelite. I honestly don't get what the fuss is all about. They wouldn't launch a spy sattellite with the tagline 'We can only see a very small bit of earth after getting a court to agree on it in triplets', would they?

Post by VMG » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 1:09 PM UTC

kristofferR wrote: post #19

trothoun wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I found this[1] one to be particularly reassuring. [1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/NROL49_pa...

It says "Better the devil that you know"

Post by ck2 » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 1:12 PM UTC

Post by Ellipsis753 » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 1:16 PM UTC

adamc wrote: post #22

user24 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't say "logo". Literally interpreted, it means that there is a giant octopus on the satellite. That provokes one to click the link to find out more.

Oh, good grief. That was the original article's title.