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Re: The International Flag of Planet Earth

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Post by kamac »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #26

Yeah, 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 --…

> Why can't they just hire Michael Okuda, whose work in Star Trek (and NASA) produced really pretty logos and flags?

Flags are supposed to be simple, and Michael Okuda's work has too many details.

Re: The International Flag of Planet Earth

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Post by billpg »

billpg wrote: post #33

I 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.

Found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Five_Rings#Inter...

Re: The International Flag of Planet Earth

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Post by alyx »

chasing wrote: post #38

As 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 aro…

That would lead to analysis-paralysis pretty quickly. Just saying.

Re: The International Flag of Planet Earth

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Post by fizixer »

Yet another possibility is to use UN flag as representing earth?

Also any "planetary" space program, as opposed to country specific programs like NASA for US, JAXA for Japan etc, can be under some newly created body, like "UN space program" or something.

Re: The International Flag of Planet Earth

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Post by sandworm101 »

JD557 wrote: post #25
sandworm101 wrote: post #15

Two things: 1) Blue and white aren't exactly politically neutral. They tried to give Iraq a blue and white flag, with blue stripes representing the rivers. It did not go well. 2) A flag should not be so complex that children cannot draw it with crayons. The interlocking rings are nice, but the specificity of which goes under which makes things too difficult. The union jack is perfect example of this complexity but at…

I completely agree with your second point. Being able to easily draw a flag is a really nice indicator of how nice your flag is (eg. is it too complex? Does it scale well?). Look at the image posted by dakridge: https://imgur.com/gallery/7ze3a Anyone could easily draw that, and that makes it much better than OP's flag.

Ya, but its a little dated now. Any reference to the number of planets cannot survive the next upstart science teacher pushing out a new definition to get himself on the daily show.

Re: The International Flag of Planet Earth

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Post by unethical_ban »

jarito wrote: post #21
dakridge wrote: post #6

This 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.

If an alien civ discovered that flag somehow, we've probably tipped our hand.

Re: The International Flag of Planet Earth

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Post by AYBABTME »

The rings are not interleaved consistently, which is annoying me because there's no explanation as to why.

The middle ring is on top of all the rings, but the two bottom ones.

The right-most ring crosses its neighbours from under, instead of in an interleaved under/over like the other rings.

The top-left ring crosses its neighbours from over, in the same fashion.

The other 4 outer rings are (clockwise) over their precedent, then under their following ring.

I'm curious if it's on purpose. If it's not on purpose, then I'm a bit disappointed that something so obvious wasn't found, when the rest of the presentation and discourses suggest great consideration. If it is indeed on purpose, then I don't understand why it's not explained, and why they made the top-left, right most and center rings different from the other ones.

Anyways, in other cases I'd say I'm nitpicking a whole lot. But this is a flag design, their text appeals to great consideration for the craft of designing flags. I'm a noob and I can notice the inconsistency, so I'm perplexed.

Re: The International Flag of Planet Earth

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Post by monochromatic »

This is a silly project that solves a problem no one has. When we encounter aliens, it'll maybe make sense to have some designation for humans/earth as a whole. In the meantime though, it's completely meaningless.

And the flag itself is... ok I guess, but there are a million designs that would be equally acceptable.

I just don't get the point.

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