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First Company Logo Visible From Space

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Re:That's a bad idea... by jazman_777 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Lionel Barrymore played a wonderful Kentucky Colonel opposite Shirley Temple's "Little Colonel." I try to recall that anytime I see the KFC logo.

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  2. Maxim? by CODiNE · · Score: 3, Informative

    Didn't Maxim already do this by putting a magazine cover of theirs somewhere near Las Vegas? It showed up as an overlay in Google Earth so I wasn't sure if it was just a bitmap they paid Google to show, or if it's a representation of the actual billboard but overlaid on older satellite images.

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    1. Re:Maxim? by JazzLad · · Score: 5, Informative

      It has been taken down; here is what it looked like

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  3. Re:Let's define VISIBLE as naked eye visible by StikyPad · · Score: 5, Informative

    Link to the Target, for the lazy.

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  4. What About Eva? by cdrudge · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apparently KFC never heard of Maxim's giant magazine cover of Eva Longoria.

  5. KFC = Kentucky Fried Chicken by TubeSteak · · Score: 5, Informative
    I thought this one sentance at the end of TFA was quite interesting:
    KFC has also now reintroduced the name "Kentucky Fried Chicken" into their marketing materials.
    "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. According to snopes, here are the reasons they changed the name:
    • A move to de-emphasize "chicken" because KFC planned to offer a varied menu that included other types of food. (The Boston Chicken corporation took the same approach for the same reason, changing their name of its retail food outlets to Boston Market.)

    • A desire to eliminate the word "fried," which has negative connotations to the increasingly health-conscious consumer market.

    • A recent trend towards the abbreviation of long commercial titles, as demonstrated by other companies' employing shortened forms of their names, such as The International House of Pancakes (IHOP) and Howard Johnson's (HoJo).
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    1. Re:KFC = Kentucky Fried Chicken by Rugikiki · · Score: 3, Informative

      From the link at the bottom of the page, one is redirected to the Lost Legends page, which explains it to be a hoax.

  6. Re:This one is from the 1920s by spitzak · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google maps link: http://www.google.com/maps?q=41.66870852724252,-86 .49160929064662

  7. First Company Logo visible From Low Earth Orbit by LordSnooty · · Score: 3, Informative

    There, fixed the headline for you.

  8. Re:That's a bad idea... by Nuskrad · · Score: 3, Informative

    You are aware that most Google Earth images are from aerial photographs and not orbiting satellites?