[Cthulhu_]

Or the mindset of a spy sattelite. I honestly don't get what the fuss is all about. They wouldn't launch a spy sattellite with the tagline 'We can only see a very small bit of earth after getting a court to agree on it in triplets', would they?

[pizza234]

The only way one cannot understand "what the fuss is all about" is by ignoring the context under which all of this is happening.

[sigzero]

Or maybe to understand that it is but one logo in a long tradition of wacky logos.

[narag]

Even with that tradition in mind, you can still understand why it calls the eye.

Filed under "unintentional gallows humor".

[hahainternet]

Or, by being rational and reasonable.

[rbanffy]

Or it could just name the satellite, maybe have a deliberately inaccurate picture of it and be done with it.

Their job is not to call attention for themselves and now that attention was called, their job is not to make it worse. We all agree they have a job to do (even if we cannot agree whether the job is necessary) and this kind of publicity makes it harder to do it.