Any relation...
... to a giant Vampire Squid?
Some spook agencies like to hide their more ominous workings from the innocent public, protecting Joe Bloggs from thinking too much about the power and influence that can come with snooping on the world. But the US National Reconnaissance Office take a different approach. Ready for launch? An Atlas 5 will blast off at just …
If they can reach anywhere, their logo shouldn't be an octopus, it should be Mr Tickle.
My favourite Mister Man, due to the fact that in the book he wakes up, and immediately after yawning and stretching a bit, he reaches his enormous arm to the kitchen cupboard, and gets biscuits to eat in bed. This was the best thing imaginable when I was 4. I guess now that I'm an adult, I could just take the biscuit tin to bed with me - but for some strange reason I never do. Even though there's a teasmade on my bedside table, and what could be more perfect than tea and biccies?
That's exactly what I was thinking! None of this sneaking around and looking extremely foolish as you're backpedaling from being caught with your dick in a chicken.
This also saves so much money. No need to waste funds on being covert when you just toss it out there unapologetically and tell everybody to suck it.
Not that I like any of the surveillance crap, but if you're going to do something at least be big enough to take credit for it.
Why try to hide the job you have been tasked to do, just come right out and be load and proud about it.
Most of the time what hurts the NSA and the such is the old Never Say Anything attitude. The stuff is going to come out sooner or later and it is the cover up that actually kills you. If the NSA would have pretty much let on that they were monitoring everything on God's green earth because CONGRESS SAID THEY COULD, the whole PRISM coming to light thing (which IMHO was the biggest NO DUH! moment in history) would have been a news story for all of 15 seconds if at all.
The imagery of an octopus with tentacles over the world is not new, not by a long shot (Goodwin alert) it was much used by the Nazi party to depict Judaism as some world spanning monster, imagery that's been recycled by some Arab groups for the same propaganda.
For any organisation to adopt a similar image for themselves shows the normal lack of historical perspective we've learnt to expect from America.
The RAF's No. 8 Squadron uses the classier Uspiam et passim - meaning "Everywhere unbounded"
168 has Rerum cognoscere causas - "To know the cause of things"
and 210 "Hovering in the heavens" though that's from the Welsh Yn y mwyfre yn hedfan
Both 206 and 683 had similar mottoes Nihil nos effugit (Nothing escapes us)
and Nihil nos later -"Nothing escapes us" or "Nothing remains concealed"
206 had an octopus in its badge but that looks more like an illustration from a 19th Century naturalists textbook than the world ravaging monster the US have adopted
but the really cool stuff is the cubesats (see the blog for one of them, for example).
And side-note, the Kickstarter project to propel objects like cubesats has succeeded .
Having said that, I do want a patch with the NRO logo.
It's also (sort of) the emblem of C.H.A.O.S.
Current speculation is that this flight is in fact a radar reconnaissance satellite (eco friendly version. No on board nuclear reactor as the Soviets like to use).
As it's an active sat it can look through smoke, cloud etc and does not need sunlight, hence the "nothing is beyond our reach." It may have passive modes as well, picking up mm microwave emissions (this on the borderline with very long wavelength IR).
And this is the logo
Actually it looks like an octopus with a bit of attitude as well.
If it could speak you can picture it saying "What?"
Nothing more than "Truth in Advertising", as required by the FTC, FCC, NTSB, NSA, FAA, DOAH, OMB and various other alphabet soup agency rules and regulations. At least now we know who watches the watchers.
A/C, but resistance is futile, I'm sure they already know exactly who I am and where to collect me . . .
There are some awesome/disturbing patches for US secret projects, as well as some hilarious unofficial morale patches. This book features a range, along with details of what some of the designs mean: http://www.mhpbooks.com/books/i-could-tell-you-but-then-you-would-have-to-be-destroyed-by-me/
Good for them. I'm so weary of all the milquetoast villains who try to explain how they were misunderstood as children, or fell into bad company in middle school. Here at last are villains who have gazed deeply into their own inner selves and are content with what they saw. No hesitation here, to openly and straight-forwardly crush the natural rights of less powerful planet dwellers. I only wish that more of the clandestine organizations on this planet were as blatant and obvious about what they do. Maybe these guys could lend a few pair of cojones to the NSA.
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