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It's like the jokes about hitting a women. Once you actually had done it they are no longer even remotely funny.
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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!
Holy crap! I wish someone had told me...
Yes, 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 goo…
> the project was killed in what the Times report calls "perhaps the most spectacular and expensive failure in the 50-year history of American spy satellite projects."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office...
They spent more money than the entire GDP of about 90+ countries for a single spy satellite:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
A big portion of that money went to Boeing:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/washington/11satellite.htm...
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How is the title link-baity?
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.
https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=eac39969d68f...
Yes, 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 goo…
It should be noted Topaz was the only outcome of a failed $25 billion dollar project called Future Imagery Architecture: > the project was killed in what the Times report calls "perhaps the most spectacular and expensive failure in the 50-year history of American spy satellite projects." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office... They spent more money than the entire GDP of about 90+ countries fo…
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How is the title link-baity?
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.
And how do you know that there isn't?
Besides, the use of the word "features" to mean "has a picture of on it" is pretty well established. The US coat of arms features an eagle, but that doesn't mean there is an actual eagle sitting on it.
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It should be noted Topaz was the only outcome of a failed $25 billion dollar project called Future Imagery Architecture: > the project was killed in what the Times report calls "perhaps the most spectacular and expensive failure in the 50-year history of American spy satellite projects." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office... They spent more money than the entire GDP of about 90+ countries fo…
Haha, no wonder that in the actual logo, the globe is turned so that the octopus is feeding on North America. The motto instead should have been "nom, nom, nom".