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The International Flag of Planet Earth(flagofplanetearth.com)

over 8 years ago from Hugo Costa

  • Ed AdamsEd Adams, over 8 years ago

    Looks like this is a design student's final project, and it's certainly not a bad one.

    I personally had always thought that a flag to represent our planet would just be a picture of the globe, though.

    7 points
    • Bob CBob C, over 8 years ago

      I like that he stayed away from a literal global like on the United Nations flag and took a more metaphorical approach. After all flags for countries are rarely geography based either. It also circumvents many issues on what countries should be positioned where. :-)

      10 points
      • Hawke BassignaniHawke Bassignani, over 8 years ago

        I think that for a flag that humans will see and care about, it’s great to go metaphor (since we live here; we know what it literally) looks like.

        If an alien came across our flag, I’d rather that it be a picture of our planet with its continents or even a diagram of our solar system… or a star map. It would be clearer to someone/thing that had never been to Earth if it looked like the thing they were looking for.

        (Unless of course the aliens are hostile… in which case, a map to where we live might be bad).

        But this is all assuming that alien organisms see the same light spectrum that we do and are land-walking. (I.e. the UN map is mostly a map of landmasses, but maybe these aliens are water-based… or air-based… or really small or really big?)

        Now I’m just rambling.

        Serious Designer Thoughts

        4 points
    • Laurens SpangenbergLaurens Spangenberg, over 8 years ago

      The problem with a globe is that it conflicts with the fact that there are other Earth like planets out there.

      4 points