The Octopus and The Military

cthulhu77;92706 said:
Funky! That sucker would have been hard to fight in, but sure looks the part.

It's no problem: you just stab them while they're saying "hey, check out that guy's hlemet, it's got an octopus on it! WTF, man, I *ouch*..."
 
Fort Mont-Valérien, Paris, is the site of a grand war memorial dedicated to the French dead of WWII. Sixteen bronze relief sculptures flank a 12m central cross; each bronze square is an allegory for a specific action. The tablet below commemorates the November 27, 1942 escape of the submarine Casablanca from the port of Toulon, where it and other French vessels were threatened with scuttling by the occupying Germans. French visitors to Mont-Valérien would no doubt be reminded of the struggle between Gilliatt and the octopus in Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea. That association might in turn remind them of Les Misérables' Jean Valjean, who was imprisoned at Toulon.

Clem
 

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U.S. Spy Rocket Has Octopus-Themed Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach Logo. Seriously.

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The Office of National Intelligence was very excited about sending a rocket into space Thursday with a bunch of new satellites and live tweeted its launch. This would usually be a cute display of social media, along the lines of NASA getting the world excited about its Mars Curiosity Rover, except these are spy satellites that will likely be used to gather communications flotsam and who knows what else from people around the world. Dragnet surveillance is a touchy subject these days what with the Snowden leaks and constant new revelations about cell phones being turned into location trackers, listening in on foreign leaders’ phone calls and the vacuuming up of any information sent digitally that’s not encrypted. Given that, I was a little surprised that ODNI was bragging about the launch on Twitter and putting the mission patch for the rocket on prominent display as it looks like it was drawn by a writer forThe Simpsons with his tongue firmly in his cheek.
 
A Brief History of Octopi Taking Over the World

Includes a photo gallery of other ominous octopus depictions.

Popular Science said:
Octopuses, octopi, octopodes: whatever plural form used, the surprisingly smart eight-tentacled underwater cephalopods are a popular symbol of something far-reaching and sinister, both on earth and, now, above it. The National Reconnaissance Office, tasked with watching the earth through largely classified satellite programs, recently launched a new rocket into space. That rocket's classified contents were marked with an incredibly subtle image: an octopus spreading its tentacles across the globe, over the words "nothing is beyond our reach." Charming! In honor of the "oct" in octopus, here are eight images featuring an octopus--and similarly limb-surplused creatures--straddling the globe.
 

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