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Recursion

(56,582 posts)
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 12:20 AM Jan 2016

"A little sinister!!" The story behind National Reconnaissance Office's octopus logo

"It's really neat to me. It's kind of saying the enemy has nowhere to run."

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2016/jan/19/octopus-NRO/

When the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) announced the upcoming launch of their NROL-39 mission back in December 2013, they didn't get quite the response they had hoped for ...



That might have had something to do with the mission logo being a gigantic octopus devouring the Earth.

The logo was widely lampooned as emblematic of the intelligence community's tone-deafness to public sentiment. Incidentally, an octopus enveloping the planet also so happens to be the logo of SPECTRE, the international criminal syndicate that James Bond is always thwarting. So there's that.

Privacy and security researcher Runa Sandvik wanted to know who approved this and why, so she filed a FOIA with the NRO for the development materials that went into the logo. A few months later, the NRO delivered.
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"A little sinister!!" The story behind National Reconnaissance Office's octopus logo (Original Post) Recursion Jan 2016 OP
However, biology professor PZ Myers would be amused. longship Jan 2016 #1
I do like the point in the FOIA'd memo about the octopus being intelligent and resilient Recursion Jan 2016 #2
Hail Hydra dlwickham Jan 2016 #3
"warfighters" ronnie624 Jan 2016 #4
Huh. DoD has used that term for about 30 years now. Recursion Jan 2016 #5
I've heard the term used on occasion. ronnie624 Jan 2016 #6
The first time I saw it I immediately thought "anti-Semitism." Behind the Aegis Jan 2016 #7

longship

(40,416 posts)
1. However, biology professor PZ Myers would be amused.
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 01:26 AM
Jan 2016
Pharyngula

Especially on Fridays when he posts his weekly Friday cephalopod pic. And don't get me started about PZ's Cthulhu obsession.

Then again, Cthulhu may be a sort of a cephalopod -- either way, both are evil. As is PZ (as he would admit). Still, he is Minnesota nice and wouldn't hurt a flea. Nevertheless, PZ is a true liberal and minces no words in his blog.

One of the best blogs anywhere.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
2. I do like the point in the FOIA'd memo about the octopus being intelligent and resilient
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 01:45 AM
Jan 2016

I mean, yes: in a perfect world the octopus probably is an organism we should admire; the optics on this are just horrible, though...

ronnie624

(5,764 posts)
6. I've heard the term used on occasion.
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 02:43 AM
Jan 2016

Usually from the puffed and strutting. Anyone who refers to themselves in such a way, clearly has considerable regard for their self.

I guess that's okay.

Behind the Aegis

(53,828 posts)
7. The first time I saw it I immediately thought "anti-Semitism."
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 03:14 AM
Jan 2016

The octopus (along with spiders, apes, and pigs) have often been associated with Jews, but especially the octopus because it has so many arms, which were to represent the ever present arms of the Jewish people in everything. Of course, I wasn't the only one to see it because apparently there are more than a few out there (?) who think this is just another "hiding in plain sight" move from the New World Order (NWO) which is really just an arm of the Zionist Occupied Governments (ZOG).

Historical anti-Semitism...

Krokodil in 1972


Latuff 2010? (a twofer with this one)


David Icke


Nazi era


"ZOG"





Al Ahram

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