I hope by the time this flag is used, space suits don't have to be that bulky.
The International Flag of Planet Earth
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Re: The International Flag of Planet Earth
#32This one is still my favorite: http://imgur.com/gallery/7ze3a
Seems like using a flag that gives an unknown contact your home address is a bad idea. That information might not be something we want to communicate right off the bat.
Since we are constantly broadcasting at high energy and with interesting patterns, I wouldn't worry about that. Everyone who sees this flag is either from Earth or knows its position very well.
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#33I think anything with five or more interlocked rings are illegal in any country that wants to ever host the Ol*mpics.
I seem to recall a game (or something) that had a similar logo to this flag but had to be redesigned.
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#34This one is still my favorite: http://imgur.com/gallery/7ze3a
Once we do colonize the solar system I'm sure invidual moons of giant planets will play a larger role than the actual planets. So I don't see this working in the future. The only future we can truly expect, aside from total annihilation and reset of the planet, would be a total colonization of the solar system.
But, if it is to be a "flag for planet earth", it would not need encompass colonies on other worlds, and it wouldn't be the goal of such a flag to do so. If, as someone else suggested, the right idea is a flag for humanity, then your argument works.
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#35It needs more.. pop? ;)
Joking aside, I kinda dig it.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
That was my knee-jerk reaction, as well. Sort of a less interesting variation on the Olympic flag. Now this, this has pizzazz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_in_Futurama#/media/Fi... /s
Yeah, the Futurama one is just fine if you subscribe to American Exceptionalism. Which would suit 4.48% of the world population just fine.
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Re: The International Flag of Planet Earth
#37Pure utopia man. But, we could make a first step by helping the refugees from middle east and people of downtrodden African nations.
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#38As with these sorts of things, I respect the academic exercise, but they always feel really arbitrary. Like, I could pick fifty different decent symbols and color schemes and come up with something that kind of looked good and might be a good Earth flag in a movie or something. If that's the goal, then the challenge isn't really that hard.
If you really wanted to explore a flag for Earth, you'd engage people from around the world. What symbols are important to them? What colors? How do they want to be seen? What does it even mean to them to have a flag that represents Earth as something uniquely ours? And such. Then begin to distill these ideas down into a flag. Or try to create a process by which an idea could be brought about. And try to get buy-in from all of these diverse people. That's the hard part. The interesting part!
(Also, nitpick about the video: 5:8 != the Golden Ratio.)
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#39Great, give us an Earth flag and we can go stick it in things and claim them! Then we can explain to the local inhabitants how that has changed their situation. We'll need pamphlets in a universal language too.
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#40Yeah, I'd say acceptable, and I could get used to it with time. But honestly, it seems to me that every time someone makes a flag for a real-world thing, it almost always suck. Why can't they just hire Michael Okuda, whose work in Star Trek (and NASA) produced really pretty logos and flags? http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/2009/06/image-9a... https://startreklives.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/emblem.gif --…
Those are all either 1) a derivation of the general "starfleet arrowhead" or 2) a ripoff of the UN flag. Most of them are also afflicted with awful outdated-looking gradients.