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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.
http://www.exploringbinary.com/binary-code-on-the-pioneer-10...
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.
There are a large number of political and practical reasons why the U.N. flag isn't going to be used to represent earth, the biggest one being that few nations would say the U.N. as a body represents anythijg more than the interests of the five permanent members of the security council. Add on the fact that the organization as a whole is bloated and encumbered by institutional dogfighting that would put Microsoft to…
If the security council can agree on a policy how to represent Earth, they have armed might to back it up.
If they do not, all the bets are off, but I suspect that most of the powers and many smaller countries would do their utmost to fight down any independent movement claiming to represent the Earth their governments do not approve of.
The UN is a bloated thing of corruption, but so is most of all of the organized humanity on any scale, so that's quite fitting. Most of our existing international operational frameworks both de jure and de facto are coordinated under the UN or very related organizations. Assuming the world will resemble the one we live in now, if a need to represent the Earth arises (like, say, alien contact) and if everyone who matters agrees how to deal with the aliens, they'll probably just stick the UN sticker on that decision. If they do not, sucks for us.
If someone not-UN will start their space adventure to find aliens, they'll use their own nationalist / corporate / ideological symbolism. If they in addition claim to represent the Earth or the Humanity instead of just themselves without everyone's approval (can't see that happening, I doubt the permanent members would agree precisely because the reasons you outlined), they will probably have a war at their hands at home. In that case and without drastic changes in the international political reality, I'd wager that the ones who can make their claim to stick would be the UN permanent council members, because that's how they got in there in the first place.
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…
> All of Earth, considered as a whole, has nothing to compare itself to. Except other planets.
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…
>To contrast against this, we may need a symbol against nationalism. The 'against-nationalism-ism' would just turn out like a nationalism. After all, it has a flag. Just look how the International turned out when they managed something resembling of the revolution they longed after in one corner of Earth.
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 --…
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.
http://marketblog.envato.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ru75...
Not saying it could actually be used as a flag. Notice how it puts the accent on us rather than the environment. I find it fresh and combative, it reminds us of our unity but also of our animality. It says very well who and what we are (without giving away our address!). However it's not inclusive and well-meaning enough to be politically acceptable. Isn't that strange?
All the other efforts, including the one linked by the OP, look trivial or perfunctory to me.
Just googled for "earth flag". Among the various results, this is the only one that impressed me: http://marketblog.envato.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ru75... Not saying it could actually be used as a flag. Notice how it puts the accent on us rather than the environment. I find it fresh and combative, it reminds us of our unity but also of our animality. It says very well who and what we are (without giving away o…
Here is a much better proposal, with the added benefit of keeping our planet safe: http://traipse.com/upgrade/
All I can see is a striking resemblance to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hazard
