They should have used Octocat - charming, friendly creature, who keeps your stuff in order :)
This one will do.
New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus
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Re: New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus
#32this is one of those cases where a parody would inevitably fail. the reality is its own parody, and perfectly so.
Re: New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
The only way one cannot understand "what the fuss is all about" is by ignoring the context under which all of this is happening.
Or maybe to understand that it is but one logo in a long tradition of wacky logos.
Re: New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, good grief. That was the original article's title.
We don't have to use the original title here. I too thought it meant a real octopus.
No, the mods strictly and remorselessly enforce the "use the original title at any cost" rule, even when it is misleading and/or linkbait. Any attempt to provide essential context in the title is met with condemnation.
Welcome to Hacker News, where the rules are made up and the points don't matter!
Re: New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
It says "Better the devil that you know"
Similar motif on NROL-66: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NROL-66_Patch.png Can't make this shit up
This one... I have no idea how this one makes me feel: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/NROL10_US...
Like, seriously, what if they were all like that?
Re: New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus
#36Link-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,…
"Obama is a world-devouring octopus" featuring a logo of this creature with Obama's face would be "link-bait".
Sadly, this title isn't provocative at all, since "nothing beyond our reach" is world-devouring! Poor octopus :'(
Re: New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus
#37How did that Google engineer put it? F- these guys. Seriously.
Yeah those arseholes monitoring terrorist cells in Pakistan, those pri... Wait, why are we mad at these people again?
Re: New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus
#38Link-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,…
This reminds me of a relevant Mitchell ans Webb clip, "Are we the baddies?". As an American, I'm having trouble deciding if if we are at this point.
Edited to add clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv2XGQBcvxQ
Re: New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus
#39Yes, it's a ballsy logo, but on the other hand...
Wikipedia tells us that NROL-39's payload is actually a Topaz synthetic aperture radar (SAR) node, flying in constellation with two others already in operation, and two more to come.
This is essentially not-at-all-threatening to civil liberties, being a ground-elevation mapping platform (and to a second order, some degree of surface roughness), of not particularly good resolution, at a semi-polar low earth orbit. There are commercial counterparts to this that are presently in operation, like TanDEM-X, and an order of magnitude improvement on that constellation's capabilities would remain insufficient to track anything particularly interesting beyond the construction over time of large static structures, with a relatively long revisit time.
Re: New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus
#40That Octopus is probably one of their tamer patches. The National Reconnaissance Office missions have the best patches - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_Launches and http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/Mission_Pa... detail them rather well.
If you are a fan of "Sneakers", you'll find this one familiar:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/09/sneake...