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NutmegYankee

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2. I can't get worked up over this

Fri Dec 6, 2013, 07:19 AM

Dec 2013

A satellite by nature presents the entire world for viewing. Patches like this are produced for every program and vessel and are often designed by members to be "bad ass, cool, and intimidating".

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America Is Launching A Giant, World-Sucking Octopus Into Space [View all] DeSwiss Dec 2013 OP

But but why are we so misunderstood newfie11 Dec 2013 #1

Yeah! DeSwiss Dec 2013 #7

----> agent46 Dec 2013 #65

we invade countries and kill heaven05 Dec 2013 #17

With the message "Nobody is beyond our reach" (slightly edited without changing the real meaning) BlueStreak Dec 2013 #52

I can't get worked up over this NutmegYankee Dec 2013 #2

And besides..... DeSwiss Dec 2013 #5

Yes, look at some of these terrifying, militaristic mission logos Bucky Dec 2013 #38

Very funny and clever. Thanks, Bucky! AAO Dec 2013 #47

Shame he failed to notice that NASA isn't a military agency... NutmegYankee Dec 2013 #60

Which is why they've never had a military person...... DeSwiss Dec 2013 #66

NASA is not the same organization as the NSA, love. DRoseDARs Dec 2013 #48

I suppose if you hand them their "a," NSA could become NASA! MADem Dec 2013 #58

Oh man, I wanna work on that Pink Floyd project! klook Dec 2013 #49

Yeah, but you know they're gonna use the unicorn juice for evil. n/t Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #50

Like NOT pressing Z to make their dreams come true! n/t Scootaloo Dec 2013 #57

Shame you put so much effort in that post, but didn't catch who the agency is... NutmegYankee Dec 2013 #59

I was talking about military programs and vessels. NutmegYankee Dec 2013 #42

Didn't the Doctor save us from one of those once? tclambert Dec 2013 #3

He save us from the Daleks and Cybermen too, but they still keep turning up JHB Dec 2013 #4

Never gets the credit he deserves, either... freshwest Dec 2013 #70

You sure that wasn't a Star Trek??? DeSwiss Dec 2013 #8

That was James Bond, I believe. Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #51

Be afraid, be very afraid ... GeorgeGist Dec 2013 #6

With their iconography, you understand them. Pholus Dec 2013 #9

Oh you mean this? DeSwiss Dec 2013 #13

Ever notice where Sauron's eye glare was directed? Pholus Dec 2013 #18

Yeah, that was classic: freshwest Dec 2013 #71

There are several things out of reach. Savannahmann Dec 2013 #10

These guy's aren't even playing the same game. DeSwiss Dec 2013 #14

- common decency, constitutional principals grahamhgreen Dec 2013 #75

Umbra leeroysphitz Dec 2013 #11

''UMBRA!!!'' He groaned into the toilet in the morning..... DeSwiss Dec 2013 #16

k&r for exposure. n/t Laelth Dec 2013 #12

Government spy satellite rockets into space on Atlas 5 pinboy3niner Dec 2013 #15

unique retrograde orbit traveling in the opposite direction of Earth's rotation Ghost Dog Dec 2013 #61

We're launching Cthulhu into space? NewJeffCT Dec 2013 #19

A world-gobbling octupus used to be considered a bad thing deutsey Dec 2013 #20

Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!! DeSwiss Dec 2013 #21

AWE-SUM!!!! Pholus Dec 2013 #22

lol DrDebug Dec 2013 #36

It's not totalitarianism when WE do it! FiveGoodMen Dec 2013 #53

And another one, from WWII caraher Dec 2013 #72

Sigh legin Dec 2013 #23

''What you resist, persist.'' ~Carl Jung n/t DeSwiss Dec 2013 #28

Yep. A real confidence builder. Baitball Blogger Dec 2013 #24

Very SPECTRE-esque. Arkana Dec 2013 #25

Oh...my..... Informative Post and Thread. KoKo Dec 2013 #26

.... DeSwiss Dec 2013 #29

Bring it on fadedrose Dec 2013 #27

No..... DeSwiss Dec 2013 #30

That makes sense...:) fadedrose Dec 2013 #31

On blastoff: "Release Dah Kracken!" Dash87 Dec 2013 #32

Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2013 #33

ph'nglui mglw'nafh NROL-39 Fort Meade wgah'nagl fhtagn ... eppur_se_muova Dec 2013 #34

Now THAT'S a terrifying image hatrack Dec 2013 #45

It is not an octopus... carla Dec 2013 #35

Sums up their mentality...and if you're not afraid, joeybee12 Dec 2013 #37

You would think... SOMEONE in the process of designing it, sketching it, painting it onto the rocket AtheistCrusader Dec 2013 #39

In the original 1966 Batman movie with Adam West... CubicleGuy Dec 2013 #40

IMO still the best Batman movie NobodyHere Dec 2013 #43

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!! Erose999 Dec 2013 #41

It gives that phrase a whole new meaning doesn't it? Cleita Dec 2013 #46

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!!!! hatrack Dec 2013 #44

I better tell you the official NSA Motto jmowreader Dec 2013 #54

I really thought this was going to be satire... Tien1985 Dec 2013 #55

Your tax dollars at work. blkmusclmachine Dec 2013 #56

I vote Kindasleazy for Octopussy! ConcernedCanuk Dec 2013 #62

And we are ctsnowman Dec 2013 #63

The Logo agent46 Dec 2013 #64

The freakiest story I've heard... backscatter712 Dec 2013 #67

People, people, calm down. They're finally launching Goldman-Sachs into orbit! BelgianMadCow Dec 2013 #68

Holy fuck. I thought that was The Onion Matariki Dec 2013 #69

I think I've seen something like that before� Jackpine Radical Dec 2013 #73

I prefer hand-drawn logos myself. Crowman1979 Dec 2013 #74

Looks like the commie octopus of old: grahamhgreen Dec 2013 #76

I wonder what Cthulhu is going to think of this darkangel218 Dec 2013 #77