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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.
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.
Add on the fact that the organization as a whole is bloated and encumbered by institutional dogfighting that would put Microsoft to shame, I don't see any UN funded/backed/approved space ventures happening anytime soon. Theres a reason the ISS isn't under a UN flag.
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…
Having a flag for planet Earth is an oxymoron. The very purpose of a flag, and nationalism in general, is to be a symbol of a nation, and the very concept of a nation can only exist in contrast to other nations . One side of the coin can only exist because there is another side. All of Earth, considered as a whole, has nothing to compare itself to. We call the sides of a coin “heads” and “tails”, but we don’t have a…
There probably is intelligent life out there. If we meet them one day, and they have a flag representing their planet. "Hi Earthlings, you don't have a flag?"...awkward.
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 pre…
This one is still my favorite: http://imgur.com/gallery/7ze3a
That one is a lot more interesting, though it's basically just a map, which is atypical for flags. The OP's flag is very abstract. Presumably, any other alien race also strives for unity and lives. It's hard to create a better flag without actually knowing aliens and having some idea of commonalities and differences with humanity. Indeed, maybe we need a flag for humanity, not planet earth?
Sure, it's not really a flag, a piece of fabric suspended from a big stick, but at the very least, let's simply go with an icon, rather than "flag", aka, rectangle. It's so primitive an nonsensical.
This one is still my favorite: http://imgur.com/gallery/7ze3a
That one is a lot more interesting, though it's basically just a map, which is atypical for flags. The OP's flag is very abstract. Presumably, any other alien race also strives for unity and lives. It's hard to create a better flag without actually knowing aliens and having some idea of commonalities and differences with humanity. Indeed, maybe we need a flag for humanity, not planet earth?
http://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/ima...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque#/media/File:Pio...
And my personal favorite: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Voyager_...
(BTW there is a flag for earth: http://static.news18.com/pix/2015/04/UN_flag.jpg )
Why not use the Olympic flag. Isn't that the purpose of the Olympic Games? To unite humanity?
