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New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus

289 点作者 Eye_of_Mordor超过 11 年前

29 条评论

spodek超过 11 年前
Link-baity title, but warranted, I&#x27;d say.<p>The story is that the government is launching a spy satellite with a logo on it featuring a &quot;mascot&quot; -- a giant Kraken-like octopus taking over the planet. Whoever created it could only have been thinking of their bureau&#x27;s unchecked ability to do what it wanted and not the public&#x27;s perception of it because the creature, especially its eye, looks menacing, ominous, foreboding, malicious, malevolent, and borderline evil. It implies the agency is insular, unaccountable, and has an aggressive, secret agenda it cares about more than anything else, certainly more than your privacy or the consequences of its actions.<p>The kicker is a comment that juxtaposes the logo with a warning illustration saying &quot;Know your communist enemy&quot; with a nearly-identical logo, presumably implying an evil enemy from the Cold War, which we have become.<p>The government octopus looks like the Kraken on the top of the wikipedia page -- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kraken</a> -- except the government one is planet-sized and its eyes seem to have more evil intent, to me, at least.
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mdisraeli超过 11 年前
That Octopus is probably one of their tamer patches. The National Reconnaissance Office missions have the best patches - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_Launches" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_NRO_Launches</a> and <a href="http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/Mission_Patches_Their_Source_and_Meaning_002.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelivingmoon.com&#x2F;45jack_files&#x2F;03files&#x2F;Mission_Pa...</a> detail them rather well.
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columbo超过 11 年前
Doesn&#x27;t seem all that surprising, these kinds of things have been around for years:<p><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/11/secret-insignias-from-the-black-ops-world/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;dangerroom&#x2F;2010&#x2F;11&#x2F;secret-insignias-fro...</a><p><a href="http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/top-10-most-sinister-psyops-mission-patches/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vigilantcitizen.com&#x2F;vigilantreport&#x2F;top-10-most-sinist...</a><p>Patches seem more like a game of one-upmanship.<p>I do like this patch&#x27;s story, sounds just like something a bunch of engineers would come up with:<p><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/NROL49_patch.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;3&#x2F;3c&#x2F;NROL49_pa...</a><p>&gt; This patch for NROL-49 depicts a phoenix rising from the flames with the flag of the United States in the background. The Latin words “Melior Diabolus Quem Scies” roughly translates to mean “The Devil You Know,” as in the phrase “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know”. Cryptic. According to NASA, this saying refers to the return of the use of an old system after attempting to use a new one, which had resulted in failure.
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mapt超过 11 年前
Yes, it&#x27;s a ballsy logo, but on the other hand...<p>Wikipedia tells us that NROL-39&#x27;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.<p>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&#x27;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.
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zwdr超过 11 年前
I like it. It&#x27;s so super-villainy that I can&#x27;t help but think it&#x27;s meant tongue-in-cheek. And the logo does look awesome.
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ry0ohki超过 11 年前
The military&#x2F;spy agencies are not concerned about being politically correct. This is sort of a tradition, if you look at missile projects they all have logos like these and are called things like &quot;reapers&quot; etc... If we start seeing this on the White House seal I&#x27;ll be concerned.
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bowlofpetunias超过 11 年前
None of the revelations of US spying of the past year have particularly shocked or surprised me, and probably not very many here.<p>The level of sheer insanity displayed in the latest revelations however, with yesterday&#x27;s &quot;horde of Orcs&quot; and this sickening slogan &quot;nothing is beyond our reach&quot; is worse than I could have imagined.<p>US intelligence has not just gone beyond what is acceptable, they&#x27;ve completely gone off the reservation and have lost all perspective. Historically, this doesn&#x27;t end well.
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rdtsc超过 11 年前
This is like the Rapiscan. Really, you are going to name an invasive x-ray-taking-pictures-of-your-junk device Rapi-scan?<p>It is slapping you in the face and laughing at it just because they can. Someone said &quot;Hey I bet I can do this and get away with it. Here hold mah beer, watch me draw a giant octupus devouring the earth!&quot;
eumenides1超过 11 年前
the logo reminds me of an image in an old Canadian history text book. it was an american octopus grabbing all of America (north and south) and part of the section that talked about manifest destiny ( <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Manifest_destiny</a>).<p>So yes, it is frightening, but only since colonial America.
scotty79超过 11 年前
It&#x27;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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spiritplumber超过 11 年前
It&#x27;s the Space Kraken! We must fire SRB&#x27;s at it!<p><a href="http://www.kerbalcomics.com/2012/07/30/episode-12-fighting-spirit/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kerbalcomics.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;07&#x2F;30&#x2F;episode-12-fighting-s...</a>
aluhut超过 11 年前
The current flow of things while I read all of the works of Bruce Sterling realy freak me out a little bit.<p>This guy looked in the future somehow. I&#x27;m pretty sure about it.<p>Just finishing &quot;The Zenith Angle&quot;
trekky1700超过 11 年前
Anyone else just think this is meant to be a bad ass logo and not something to be psychoanalyzed as some metaphor for the intelligence community?
simbolit超过 11 年前
this is one of those cases where a parody would inevitably fail. the reality is its own parody, and perfectly so.
walshemj超过 11 年前
Tip for the new NSA&#x2F;CIA&#x2F;FBI Director<p>One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation.<p>BTW NCIS wont need this as they have Jethro Gibbs just run every thing past him and if he doesn&#x27;t hit you on the back of the head your golden.
ambler0超过 11 年前
The comparison to old anti-communist propaganda in the promoted comment after the article is priceless.
bananacurve超过 11 年前
HN has been seriously trolled. You would think smart people have a sense of humor. You would be wrong.
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Sputum超过 11 年前
There is an Airforce unit in NH tasked with tracking and maintaining government satellites which has this incredibly evil looking logo <a href="http://i.imgur.com/jAzLyvS.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;jAzLyvS.jpg</a>
znowi超过 11 年前
They should have used Octocat - charming, friendly creature, who keeps your stuff in order :)<p>This one will do.<p><a href="http://octodex.github.com/images/murakamicat.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;octodex.github.com&#x2F;images&#x2F;murakamicat.png</a>
charlysisto超过 11 年前
Funny nobody spotted it&#x27;s also commonly used to represent the mafia. Small side note : mafia&#x27;s power mainly relies on people&#x27;s fear of being heard if they say anything against it... Just sayin...
ck2超过 11 年前
How did that Google engineer put it?<p>F- these guys.<p>Seriously.
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leokun超过 11 年前
Well at least they&#x27;re being honest. Getting rid of the logo is just like changing the marketing without changing the bigger problem.
celticninja超过 11 年前
in the same way that abu ghraib&#x2F;gunatanamo torture and mistreatment of detainees served as a recruiting tool for al-qaeda and similar organisations i can see this sort of thing being the equivalent for digital activists.
squozzer超过 11 年前
&quot;Nothing is beyond our reach&quot; - except subtlety, obviously.
cproctor超过 11 年前
It seems to have inadvertently collected North America.
eli超过 11 年前
Sure, and AT&amp;T features a deathstar
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timbro超过 11 年前
&quot;NOTHING IS BEYOND OUR REACH&quot; says their tag line.<p>Let that sink in for a minute.<p>It&#x27;s the mindset of crazies.
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ninjac0der超过 11 年前
I read the comments in this thread and realize for the most part, the US government can do no wrong. Then I realize you mofos are the real problem.
acheron超过 11 年前
Trolling achievement unlocked.<p>U mad bro?