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First Company Logo Visible From Space
Posted by
kdawson
on Tue Nov 14, 2006 06:33 PM
from the fast-food-for-aliens dept.
from the fast-food-for-aliens dept.
Albert Sandberg writes, "KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) has created the first logo that is visible from space. The construction was made by 65,000 1x1-foot tiles and covers about 2 acres. The logo was built and assembled over about a month and is located in the Nevada desert near Area 51. The article also has a short video showing the construction in time-lapse. Now the aliens know where to get their slimy food :-)"
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That's a bad idea... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:That's a bad idea... (Score:5, Funny)
Is this English?
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Re:That's a bad idea... (Score:4, Funny)
My wife calls them "Matrix Chickens", and claims that KFC grows them in a warehouse without heads or feet. The cut-off neck and legs are used to inject whatever hormones and nutrition needed to grow the "chicken" body. I'm not sure if thats exactly how it happens, but I ate at a KFC not too long ago, and something is seriously wrong with their food. She's on to something. Video at 11
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I'm speechless.
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KFC = Kentucky Fried Chicken (Score:5, Informative)
You may or may not have heard the rumor that they were forced to change the name to KFC because the FDA said their chicken was not longer chicken... but apparently that is not true. [snopes.com] According to snopes, here are the reasons they changed the name:
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Kentucky Fried Chicken, from a McDonalds perspecti (Score:5, Interesting)
"Kentucky Fried Chicken" was changed to KFC back in 1991! You may or may not have heard the rumor that they were forced to change the name to KFC because the FDA said their chicken was not longer chicken... but apparently that is not true.
Yeah, that's absolute idiocy. I was working for McDonalds at the time, back in high school, and we had the same bullshit: "The patties are 100% pure beef" implied that we'd created/purchased a company called "100% Pure Beef". We didn't; the supplier (name a Canadian or American national meat packaging company) and the ingredients were marked clearly on the box: beef. Some even stated province: Pure Alberta Beef. 100% Ontario Beef. New York's finest Dead Cow. (OK, the last one was a joke... d'Uh)) The fact is (and as a former manager, a position to which I was promoted quickly because I actually showed up on time and *most* days liked my co-workers, customers and my job) McDonald's hamburgers are a higher grade of beef (Cdn AAA) than you can usually buy in the supermarket. That's lower fat than is commonly available to consumers. And it's very important to McDonalds - higher fat would be bad for the cooking process (admittedly not an open flame, unfortunately) and for the dietary disclosures now required. Throw a 1/4 pound of top-end premium ground into a frying pan, and I guarantee you'll get more fat than if you threw a *half* pound of uncooked McDonalds quarter-patties in the pan. (Try a few McDonalds, tell them you're on some sort of my-parents-were-idiot-hippies raw beef diet, sooner or later one of them will let you have uncooked patties. American or Canadian, I'll bet money than 1/2 pound of McDonalds patties gives less fat than 1/4 of extra-lean grocery store beef.)
As for KFC, all you need to do is bite into it to know it's chicken. I don't know what sort of scientifically (and culinarily) inept uncircumcised inbred NDP-voter started the rumor that "KFC can't call themselves KFC because they don't serve chicken", but it's really sufficiently asinine that the offender shouldn't be allowed to vote or procreate. If you disagree, there's a great B-Movie (sparsely available by Torrents, etc.) called "The Willies" - you'll enjoy the Tennessee Fricassee Chicken scene for sure.
I can't speak for the PETA comments against KFC, which I hope are the usual PETA bullshit. I am a carnivore but I feel for anything with a nervous system - but I will remind you that PETA has been right on occasion. OTOH, if there were anything more stupid than chicken, it would be called a "plant", it would breathe carbon dioxide, and it would think George Bush was a terrific President.
Yes, KFC is chicken. Yes, it's fried. Yes, the founder was from Kentucky. If you're too stupid to understand that the K and the F became liabilities with the diet craze(s) (whatever happened to *moderation*, you know, like us adults do), you don't deserve to breathe or breed.
But so long as you money is still real, "Can I take your order?" (We don't even want to get into my experiences with fat people: "Double Big Mac combo, large sized, large soft drink... better make it a Diet Coke, I'm trying to lose weight..." Me, screaming in my mind at the top of my lungs: "THEN MAKE THIS YOUR WEEKLY NOT DAILY TREAT TO YOURSELF, GET AN ACTIVE HOBBY, AND CUT OFF THE BON-BONS, YOU FUCKING HIDEOUS AND STINKY BEACHED WHALE." Spoken: "Oh yes, a Diet Coke will do *wonders* for your physique." - if they were any dumber, or if I were a commissioned salesperson, I'd tell them I was gay and sell them a *simply fabulous* pair of culottes and a front-load washer - they're dumb enough to trust "diet" over common sense, so they must be dumb enough to trust a cute little rubber door seal over gravity.)
Finally, say what you want about KFC, but sometimes I just get a craving for it - it's damned good (except when you go to a sucky franchise whose left it under the heat lamps too long, in which case it's only slightly better than cafeteria food). KFC, aside from their proprietary seasonings,
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Great (Score:5, Funny)
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KFG
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It's so all alien visitors will know... (Score:5, Funny)
Let's define VISIBLE as naked eye visible (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Let's define VISIBLE as naked eye visible (Score:4, Insightful)
By the way, does anyone know how big that Taco Bell logo was? You know, the giant one that Taco Bell said they'd give everyone in America a free taco if a piece of the Mir station hit it?
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Re:Let's define VISIBLE as naked eye visible (Score:5, Informative)
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I never really seriously wanted to be an actuary (Score:4, Funny)
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Patterns Not Visible From Ground? (Score:4, Funny)
Use of crops for ads? (Score:5, Interesting)
Ads need to be visible standing on the Earth (Score:4, Insightful)
Here is a well known company [google.co.uk] whose logo is also visible from space.
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brilliant! (Score:4, Insightful)
but i don't think anyone has made a movie about alien susceptibility to "supersize me"-style death by artery clogging. so now when the aliens do come, this kfc beacon will guide them to their first meal of addictive tasty trans fats, and they shall die of arteriosclerosis, rather than sepsis
a brilliant plan! huzzah to kfc for saving the world!
The target audience (Score:5, Funny)
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What the aliens are thinking (Score:5, Funny)
[15 minutes and an empty box later]
"Ungh.... THAT'S why..."
Maxim? (Score:4, Informative)
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Meh (Score:5, Interesting)
I always wondered how much it'd cost to paint the moon with a logo. I know it would be astronomical (heh), but surely it'd be worth it for whichever company (coke) did it? I mean, a logo on the moon! beat that, KFC. Who's going to be looking at their crappy from-space logo if the moon has a frikkin coke logo on it? ha!
I think I need some more coffee.
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Company Logo Visible from Earth (Score:3, Insightful)
If there is anything that would lead me to seriously consider engaging in open rebellion against capitalist western culture, a la Camus, this would be it. The last thing some New Guinea Fore or Enga tribesperson or some Australian aborigine needs to see is a damned red and blue sphere with a wavy white stripe down the middle floating across the night sky (personally, I think Pepsi would do it first). I mean c'mon people, have some
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Target Market = Tinfoil hat wearers (Score:5, Interesting)
Billboard from space (Score:5, Funny)
Television ad during Superbowl, $1,200,000
Getting your logo on Google for free, Priceless
So, what's next and how much will be spent to get "free" advertising on Google?
Or, when will GOogle get wise and start charging for AdSpace or EarthAds?
Time for a new right... (Score:5, Insightful)
Am I alone in thinking that advertising should be restricted to certain public spaces designated as 'commercial', and should otherwise not be permitted? I strongly feel that I should be able to move around the world freely without having to look at KFC ads. We pay quite a lot of attention to our environment in a chemistry/biology context, but very little to it in terms of what kind of mental environment we are inhabiting.
I am generally relatively libertarian, believe it or not. I hate laws that interfere unneccessarily with people's right to do whatever they want. But the day I can't go anywhere on this planet without seeing an orbiting billboard [slashdot.org] is the day I become a serial killer. I guess I consider that a billboard or whatever isn't really 'over there' on someone else's property, because I feel its effects wherever I have the misfortune to observe it.
Put it this way - would we tolerate sound advertising that was audible from anywhere on earth? No. So why is visual advertising any different?
We are in danger of becoming a civilisation so enamoured with commerce that we have no independent culture or sense of aesthetics. I mean, we're branding the fucking PLANET now? It's sick. Commerce is a means to an end: we have made it an end in itself. As the first comment on the blog says, "this makes me want to kill myself".
Re:Time for a new right... (Score:5, Funny)
Yes. Next question.
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This one is from the 1920s (Score:4, Interesting)
41.66944 Latitude
It is on the Bendix Proving Grounds, just West of South Bend, Indiana.
Those are 20-30 meter tall trees. And the word 'Studebaker'(original owner) is about 550 meters long.
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First? Ha! (Score:5, Funny)
NOT visible from space. (Score:3, Insightful)
Its really visible when you use zooming technology, in which case my house and care are already visible thanks to Google Earth as proof.
And plenty of company logos can be found going through Google Earth.
first? (Score:3, Funny)
Don't forget.. (Score:5, Funny)
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What About Eva? (Score:5, Informative)
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First Company Logo visible From Low Earth Orbit (Score:4, Informative)
Raping the desert (Score:5, Insightful)
I was born and raised in the Mojave Desert. It's a beautiful place and it makes me sick to see a bunch of out-of-town yahoos clearcut a bunch of it for their little stunt. 'Course environmental awareness isn't the first thing that KFC brings to mind so it's par for the course.
From nerds to KFC: (Score:5, Funny)
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But in essence you are right. Consider this 5m [satimagingcorp.com] resolution image. You can see a municipal baseball field in it; you could easily set up an array of a hundred or so people with cardboard placards to make something recognizable in it. And there are commercial images with 4x the resolution.
Re:Visible from space? (Score:4, Insightful)
Come on, you got his point, don't you? I was about to comment on that too, you don't need to make something friggin huge to have it seen from space, it's all about the resolution you can get from your satelitte, so saying that it's the "First Company Logo Visible From Space" is absurd, for more accuracy it should be "First Company Logo Meant To Be Visible From Space"
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