First Company Logo Visible From Space

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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Re:Let's define VISIBLE as naked eye visible

[StikyPad]

Link to the Target, for the lazy.

What About Eva?

[cdrudge]

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

KFC = Kentucky Fried Chicken

[TubeSteak]

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).

Re:Maxim?

[JazzLad]

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