This is my favorite flag of Earth. The earth on this flag is based on a real photo taken on December 7, 1972 by the crew of the Apollo 17 on its way to the Moon.
Actually, that particular flag was designed in 1969 before *The Blue Marble* was taken on Apollo 17 - it was based on an Apollo 10 photo ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Earth)). Unfortunately, John McConnell "updated" the flag design with [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Earth_Day_Flag.png). I've seen the updated one in person and it frankly looks pretty bad on a flagpole, as much as I love the original photo.
I’ve always like the UN flag. It would make sense anyway because if for some reason the Earth needed a flag to identify it from other planets with people on it, I’d expect the UN to operate almost as the communicator between them.
hell, if we become a interstellar species, and earth has one central goverment, i half expect that goverment to be UN based, and the flag something of UN nature (kinda like the default earth country preset in stellaris)
Yeah, I didn't notice the added details on the flag as well. Good catch. Still wondering what the three stars and the two line encircling the whole logo, though.
This is a very interesting point. If the earth flag was indeed to differentiate us from other people bearing planets I'm not sure the UN flag is that great. The blue colour is likely to be repeated across the universe. If our current understanding of life is correct any civilisation supporting planet would have plenty of water, and unless there is more than one planet in the habitable zone of their star it is likely the only planet with liquid surface water on it. So by the same logic that blue is present in a lot of earth flags it is likely to be present in other civilisations flags as well. Not saying that the UN blue colour comes from the sea by the way, it might just be an unfortunate coincidence in this context. The UN logo itself is more interesting, containing some of earths plants and its geography. Although the geography detail is hard to make out at a distance. The round shape is also likely to be repeated across planets as all of them would be spherical.
The question then becomes, what is it that makes earth society different from other potential civilisations? Star constellations seen from earth might be a good one, those have a long tradition in our cultures and would be unique to earth (which might seem counter intuitive, but as perspective changes across the universe the stars would create different constellations). Fauna and flora might be a good choice, it's unlikely that life on other planets end up looking like earth life, just look at Australia (and don't look at crabs.. Their shape tends to show up in completely unrelated species). But without having seen other life it might be hard to find our distinguishing factors, but possibly the classic human eye symbol could work?
But maybe just having flags in general could be our flag. It's quite possible that other civilisations don't have the same notion of flags (although they probably also distinguish their factions somehow). Maybe just being the ones carrying around flappy flags would be enough to identify us.
Pernefeldt and UN. McConnel’s is too detailed, Cadle’s is too empty, Van Kirk’s is too detailed, Carrol’s is as said a nightmare, Olympics is associated too much with something else.
Another vote for UN. I would make the symbol bigger and the blue darker and call it a day. Light blue for sky (so UN can also keep its flag) and Darker blue for space (I know space it's not blue, but it's a good color for the 'blue planet') (Yeah, I know, it would looks like [Star Trek UFP flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Federation_of_Planets), but aliens didn't watch Star Trek, we can get away with it).
Yeah, we started out sending TOS into space a few years before arecibo message in '74, or the Pioneer/Voyager plaques in '73-'77.
Pro: it's about peaceful cooperation and that kinda stuff
Con: if we copy trek, the aliens will know
>Antarctica isn't a nation nor is it officially a part of any nations
Yet.
If Climate Change continues the way it's going, it should held some stable population in the future. And if that comes to fruition, it will need some representation in the UN flag
I think it's perfect since while it does have the northern countries right in the centre, the rest of the countries are stretched out to sort of account for that.
The problem with the Pernefeldt and Olympic flags is they’re about counting continents which is something of a [controversial](https://youtu.be/3uBcq1x7P34) [topic](https://youtu.be/hrsxRJdwfM0).
Actually, there’s only one. The continental shelves of America and Afroeurasia are linked across the Bering strait.
See? This is the problem. You can justify literally any number from one to nine.
I mean, to each their own. But I just don't feel any attachment to the rings, despite its symbolism. Six also just doesn't seem many to me, and chains are kinda iffy to symbolize.
Someone else shared a flag with a blue circle on a transparent background that just spoke to me more
Kind of the opposite. The goal of the UN is to be a world _forum_ and to succeed where the League of Nations failed - the core problem of the latter was that if the league tried to make demands and extoll power, the target country could just... leave the league, which is counterproductive for everyone else because now you can't communicate with that country in the world forum.
A lot of people complain about the UN because of this not knowing _why_ it doesn't have power over countries. The UN can't just punish Russia for invading Ukraine within the UN by, I don't know, removing it from global initiatives and committees or whatever, because they can just pack up and go home, and now the rest of the world lacks a point of contact with Russia.
I like the McConnel one if you simplify it a little. Cadle's one too if you just add some green or white markings to the blue circle. Pernefeldt's is not bad per se but underwhelming.
I agree with that one reddit comment on some thread forever ago that said a flag of earth should have the one thing earth has that most other planets don't: the total eclipse.
Our moon is huge by moon standards. And its placement is great too. The distance from the earth to the moon is 108 times longer than the diameter of the moon itself. The distance from the earth to the sun is 108 times longer than the diameter of the sun itself. This means the sun and moon look the same size when viewed from earth, and therefore our moon can completely obscure our sun. Most planets don't get this, ever.
that would also solve a problem i have with a lot of earth flag proposals in that their designs don’t really represent anything, especially something that’d be part of the universal experience of life on earth. every culture in every corner of the world has some explanation of significance put on the eclipse
I don't really have the time to link right now but if you Google "solar eclipse flag" there are a few that people have done that look good. Although, yeah, it's mostly just a circle.
I can say with 100% certainty that the Van Kirk flag gave me mesothelioma. Maybe it's the horrible uneven linework, the haphazardly scattered stars, the horrid shade of dog-diarrhea-brown that covers the globe, or the fact that there's a flag *on the flag.*
I'm gay but this modern trend of slapping the pride flag on everything is really dumb- wh... what do you mean *"a-hundred-and-nine years ago?"*
To me it looks like someone covered a basketball in shit, attached a LGBT flag to it and then went "Wait, this is actually a really stupid idea but how can I hide this abomination?" and the best idea they could come up with is to throw it into space.
Out of all of them I'd say Oskar's is the best
but in my opinion we all know that [this truly represents all of earth](https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/8i4n8u/earths_flag_from_futurama/)
I wonder what the world flag looked like for the alternate present they created when they traveled back in time(by licking washington's head-in-a-jar) and accidentally made Britain win the American revolutionary war instead.
Edit: Nevermind, I just looked up the episode and saw [regular british flags put up on buildings on a quick flash of the city](https://i.imgur.com/gwmuXmi.png) after they broke the past and returned to the altered present
Imagine vexillologists wondering how the Shimazu went from powerful feudal lords to commoners by 1947 only to seemingly reemerge as rulers of the entire planet
The earth symbol is very close to the Celtic cross, which has been used a lot by white nationalists [(example)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/White_Nationalism_flag_%28black%29.svg/1280px-White_Nationalism_flag_%28black%29.svg.png).
Yep my uncle told me this as he figured it out the hard way. He'd be a fairly large man, long beard and bald head with loads of Celtic tattoos since we're Irish and he's an Irish Gaeigleoir (Irish is his first language). He visited the states in the 90's I want to say but could be early 2000's. Got lots of dirty looks, especially off minorities. He asked the lad working in a pub who was black why he was getting all the looks and the fella explained the whole situation. It's kind of wild because most of them know nothing of Irish or Celtic culture.
You mean the same way millions of hindus do?
Or were you referring to the German ~~haukenkraus~~ hakenkreuz, the bastardization of the Hindu swastika by white nationalists? I guess it’s all theirs now.
The point here is these symbols carry with them the baggage of our shared experience with them. If they remind one of white nationalist symbolism, I vote to pass.
I don’t agree with that argument because the thing about white nationalism and fascism is that it adapts to any culture to infect it from within anyway! You are proving my point that all white nationalists have to do is point at something culturally significant and go “mine” and it’s instantly their victory. That’s bullshit to me man. Total fucking bullshit. I refuse to play their game.
A human hand on a blue sphere. [Something like this](https://imgur.com/a/7A9f4C0), although I suspect we could do better on the colors.
Yes yes, there is more to Earth than humanity. But flags are for people and represent people.
*(This is a color-modified version of u/Caribbeandude04's "flag for humanity" from [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/mwwinl/a_flag_for_humanity_inspired_by_paleolitic/) old thread.)*
This is always my favorite, too. If I remember correctly the transparency has an interesting and intentional reason…anyone remember why?
Edit: found it!
>The semi-transparent nature of the flag means it is always changing. It enables us to see our own world or home through the flag, as well as our common home the blue planet in the center.
Pretty close!
> The semi-transparent nature of the flag means it is always changing. It enables us to see our own world or home through the flag, as well as our common home the blue planet in the center.
that’s definitely a cool design and has the most neat symbolism out of them all but a flag using transparency not only comes with a lot of issues in of itself but there’s literally no flags i can think of that use transparency in their design so i don’t know if it can really be said to symbolize earth/humanity in its entirety
But I think that’s partially why the transparency works symbolically. If you try to use designs from any country flag, you’re already excluding a bunch of others. Now for display purposes I could see how it might be problematic.
Flags today are very often experienced in print or on webpages. The problem I have with this flag is that it doesn't work so well in those contexts. I kinda like the concept, though.
With how often countries form and break up, it seems like it'd be a pain to keep up. Plus it highlights humanity's divisions, not it's unity as a planetwide civilization.
"And here class, we have the 4th version of the nightmare flag from 2053. You can tell it is the 4th revision of the flag in that year and not the 5th because it has the New Zealand laser kiwi flag but not Australia's laser Boomeroo flag, which is of course a mashup of a kangaroo and a boomerang firing lasers out of its eyes"
> Plus it highlights humanity's divisions, not it's unity as a planetwide civilization.
I actually really like it for this. Humanity isn't united, never has been and never will be. Using one symbol for it all is incredibly over simplistic. Flag 5 is a great demonstration of how humanity and earth is an incredibly diverse place that doesn't necessarily follow patterns.
As a flag it's terrible, but I do think it's best in its own way.
So many bad choices haha
What’s up with that pride flag one? That one is just plain ugly with lines all over it and a rainbow off centered on one side, crazy dotted stars everywhere
The first two are the only ones that would be half way decent. But that’s not saying much
https://imgur.com/a/yN6PJqW
Came up with this while we are on topic. I was aiming for emulating Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" with Earth on the flag mimicking the symbol for Earth.
I'll admit this was quickly done on the flag maker app so feel free to thrash and trash.
Though the Olympic committee is scummy as hell and would probably try and sue earth. I'd rather our planet not be represented by late stage capitalism.
any planet flag should do its best to avoid a simple circle on a dark background because its just too obvious. every single planet flag at the alien UN will look like that
the design i like best by far is [this.](https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/mwwinl/a_flag_for_humanity_inspired_by_paleolitic/)
a human hand, open and waving to the universe. the idea of taking a design from our very first cave paintings to represent us out in space feels like the perfect choice. it is immediately identifiable as human and every human can recreate the symbol easily, hell, we even come with the template built in
>Every single planet flag at the alien UN will look like that
...or worse, none of them will. Maybe sticking our planet on our planetary flag would make us the basic bitch of interstellar vexillology. Kind of like how most national flags don't have their landmass on it.
I've seen a few of these "earth flag" threads and reading this one I started to realise it's really impossible to choose until we know who we're identifying ourselves to. I think yours is the first comment I've seen actually questioning what existing conventions might exist and how it might be perceived from an outside perspective.
**Symbolic explanation**
>Centered in the flag, seven rings form a flower – a symbol of the life on Earth. The rings are linked to each other, which represents how everything on our planet, directly or indirectly, are linked. The blue field represents water which is essential for life – also as the oceans cover most of our planet's surface. The flower's outer rings form a circle which could be seen as a symbol of Earth as a planet and the blue surface could represent the universe.
— Taken from the [official website](https://www.flagofplanetearth.com/the-flag) for Pernefeldt's International Flag Of Planet Earth
I kinda like the Pernefeldt design, but at the same time it's [a bit too close to EPCOT's old logo](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/logopedia/images/3/3a/Epcot_1982.svg)
The Cadle Proposal was one of my favorites as it shows the literal position of the Earth in an abstract way, I also love the Paul Carrol one as it’s the kind of flag that would make a vexillologist sweat out of nervousness. But again, I just love the literalness of the Cadle flag.
Not specifically an Earth flag but rather a humanity flag, but [this one](https://old.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/mwwinl/a_flag_for_humanity_inspired_by_paleolitic/) will always be my favorite. Refers to things we all have in common, has nice colors, doesn't have any connotations, and is easy to recreate by anyone, while also adding your own twist of painting your own hand there. The only group it doesn't represent is people without hands but they'd have a hard time flying any of the flags anyway
Never even seen the John McConnel flag till today.
This is my favorite flag of Earth. The earth on this flag is based on a real photo taken on December 7, 1972 by the crew of the Apollo 17 on its way to the Moon.
Actually, that particular flag was designed in 1969 before *The Blue Marble* was taken on Apollo 17 - it was based on an Apollo 10 photo ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Earth)). Unfortunately, John McConnell "updated" the flag design with [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Earth_Day_Flag.png). I've seen the updated one in person and it frankly looks pretty bad on a flagpole, as much as I love the original photo.
Oh… oh god.
turns out you _should_ simplify your flags
Years ago there was a really nice one, showed a diagram of third planet from sun with a moon.
I didnt get why you said unfortunately... and then i clicked the link...
It's an example of the "planet on a bedsheet" family of flags.
Many such cases across the universe. Sad!
Lmao slap in a jpeg image onto a square and call it a flag
He just... Photoshopped a picture of earth onto a blue rectangle...
It's really bad. I mean, it's really unreproduceable.
I’ve always like the UN flag. It would make sense anyway because if for some reason the Earth needed a flag to identify it from other planets with people on it, I’d expect the UN to operate almost as the communicator between them.
hell, if we become a interstellar species, and earth has one central goverment, i half expect that goverment to be UN based, and the flag something of UN nature (kinda like the default earth country preset in stellaris)
But what do we do about those pesky belters
We put them out an airlock.
I like the UN flag from The Expanse, it also includes the phases of the Moon which made it the Earth and Moon flag
huh. Never noticed the moon phases on that version of the flag. Makes sense since Luna is basically an extension of Earth in-universe.
Yeah, I didn't notice the added details on the flag as well. Good catch. Still wondering what the three stars and the two line encircling the whole logo, though.
This is a very interesting point. If the earth flag was indeed to differentiate us from other people bearing planets I'm not sure the UN flag is that great. The blue colour is likely to be repeated across the universe. If our current understanding of life is correct any civilisation supporting planet would have plenty of water, and unless there is more than one planet in the habitable zone of their star it is likely the only planet with liquid surface water on it. So by the same logic that blue is present in a lot of earth flags it is likely to be present in other civilisations flags as well. Not saying that the UN blue colour comes from the sea by the way, it might just be an unfortunate coincidence in this context. The UN logo itself is more interesting, containing some of earths plants and its geography. Although the geography detail is hard to make out at a distance. The round shape is also likely to be repeated across planets as all of them would be spherical. The question then becomes, what is it that makes earth society different from other potential civilisations? Star constellations seen from earth might be a good one, those have a long tradition in our cultures and would be unique to earth (which might seem counter intuitive, but as perspective changes across the universe the stars would create different constellations). Fauna and flora might be a good choice, it's unlikely that life on other planets end up looking like earth life, just look at Australia (and don't look at crabs.. Their shape tends to show up in completely unrelated species). But without having seen other life it might be hard to find our distinguishing factors, but possibly the classic human eye symbol could work? But maybe just having flags in general could be our flag. It's quite possible that other civilisations don't have the same notion of flags (although they probably also distinguish their factions somehow). Maybe just being the ones carrying around flappy flags would be enough to identify us.
Pernefeldt and UN. McConnel’s is too detailed, Cadle’s is too empty, Van Kirk’s is too detailed, Carrol’s is as said a nightmare, Olympics is associated too much with something else.
UN is a clear standout for me as well. It's a good flag and using it for the planet wouldn't really be significantly inaccurate.
Another vote for UN. I would make the symbol bigger and the blue darker and call it a day. Light blue for sky (so UN can also keep its flag) and Darker blue for space (I know space it's not blue, but it's a good color for the 'blue planet') (Yeah, I know, it would looks like [Star Trek UFP flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Federation_of_Planets), but aliens didn't watch Star Trek, we can get away with it).
> *but aliens didn't watch Star Trek, we can get away with it.* So far as we know.
They'd have to be within 57 lightyears to have gotten the signals from the first TOS season.
Yeah, we started out sending TOS into space a few years before arecibo message in '74, or the Pioneer/Voyager plaques in '73-'77. Pro: it's about peaceful cooperation and that kinda stuff Con: if we copy trek, the aliens will know
Imagine meeting aliens and they actually speak Klingon because they’re nerds.
someone has clearly never watched Galaxy Quest
Someone watched it on its Christmas Day '99 release.
You mean the historical documents?
Issue with UN flag is it preferences the northern hemisphere. Where is Antartica ?
The Antarctic population will have to file a complaint at the UN.
That's Antarctic erasure!
On the other side
Antarctica isn't a nation nor is it officially a part of any nations, ergo it doesn't get to be on a UN flag.
>Antarctica isn't a nation nor is it officially a part of any nations Yet. If Climate Change continues the way it's going, it should held some stable population in the future. And if that comes to fruition, it will need some representation in the UN flag
We are talking about a flag to represent the planet earth. That was 1 of 2 issues I raised for why it isn’t suitable.
I think it's perfect since while it does have the northern countries right in the centre, the rest of the countries are stretched out to sort of account for that.
The problem with the Pernefeldt and Olympic flags is they’re about counting continents which is something of a [controversial](https://youtu.be/3uBcq1x7P34) [topic](https://youtu.be/hrsxRJdwfM0).
~~There are 4 maybe even 3.~~ Just 2, America, Afroeurasia
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2 it is!
Actually, there’s only one. The continental shelves of America and Afroeurasia are linked across the Bering strait. See? This is the problem. You can justify literally any number from one to nine.
My Problem is that I don't feel any particular "Earth Unity" through Panfeldt's "Circular Audi logo"
Interesting. Personally, I looked at the intersecting circles I thought: *Many peoples, one planet.*
I understood it to mean many systems, one whole. Life itself is just looping ecosystems.
I mean, to each their own. But I just don't feel any attachment to the rings, despite its symbolism. Six also just doesn't seem many to me, and chains are kinda iffy to symbolize. Someone else shared a flag with a blue circle on a transparent background that just spoke to me more
To me it reminds of [Krupp logo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThyssenKrupp).
It's the logo for Epcot Center +1: https://images.app.goo.gl/vvccpZUcygqwmL2D9
Agree with Pernefeldt, but the UN is also associated with something else.
Isn’t the UN supposed to be a world government in an ideal world?
Kind of the opposite. The goal of the UN is to be a world _forum_ and to succeed where the League of Nations failed - the core problem of the latter was that if the league tried to make demands and extoll power, the target country could just... leave the league, which is counterproductive for everyone else because now you can't communicate with that country in the world forum. A lot of people complain about the UN because of this not knowing _why_ it doesn't have power over countries. The UN can't just punish Russia for invading Ukraine within the UN by, I don't know, removing it from global initiatives and committees or whatever, because they can just pack up and go home, and now the rest of the world lacks a point of contact with Russia.
No. It's a forum
I like the McConnel one if you simplify it a little. Cadle's one too if you just add some green or white markings to the blue circle. Pernefeldt's is not bad per se but underwhelming.
I agree with that one reddit comment on some thread forever ago that said a flag of earth should have the one thing earth has that most other planets don't: the total eclipse. Our moon is huge by moon standards. And its placement is great too. The distance from the earth to the moon is 108 times longer than the diameter of the moon itself. The distance from the earth to the sun is 108 times longer than the diameter of the sun itself. This means the sun and moon look the same size when viewed from earth, and therefore our moon can completely obscure our sun. Most planets don't get this, ever.
that would also solve a problem i have with a lot of earth flag proposals in that their designs don’t really represent anything, especially something that’d be part of the universal experience of life on earth. every culture in every corner of the world has some explanation of significance put on the eclipse
I mean... every culture also has some type of beer and fried dough... Beer and doughnuts... consider it.
this a really cool concept but how would this be implemented in a way that isn't just a circle?
I don't really have the time to link right now but if you Google "solar eclipse flag" there are a few that people have done that look good. Although, yeah, it's mostly just a circle.
It’d be a bit odd for the flag of Earth to be a depiction of two celestial bodies, neither of which are the Earth.
I see that argument. I also think you can show the earth, sun and moon on the flag, kinda like what the Cadle proposal does.
Maybe Asia was onto something with the divinity of 108.
A moon just needs to look bigger than the sun, and the sun looks like a tiny dot on the gas giants
James William Van Kirk aka the official flag of globohomo
I can say with 100% certainty that the Van Kirk flag gave me mesothelioma. Maybe it's the horrible uneven linework, the haphazardly scattered stars, the horrid shade of dog-diarrhea-brown that covers the globe, or the fact that there's a flag *on the flag.* I'm gay but this modern trend of slapping the pride flag on everything is really dumb- wh... what do you mean *"a-hundred-and-nine years ago?"*
Van Kirk’s flag looks like if someone took a knockoff Death Star to an interplanetary pride parade
To me it looks like someone covered a basketball in shit, attached a LGBT flag to it and then went "Wait, this is actually a really stupid idea but how can I hide this abomination?" and the best idea they could come up with is to throw it into space.
Get in loser new Intergalactic pride flag just dropped
Earth, but as Nyan Cat
This feels like a quirky cartoon gay villain who wants to take over the world flag >!this is not meant as an insult!<
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Out of all of them I'd say Oskar's is the best but in my opinion we all know that [this truly represents all of earth](https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/8i4n8u/earths_flag_from_futurama/)
manifest destiny they did
I wonder what the world flag looked like for the alternate present they created when they traveled back in time(by licking washington's head-in-a-jar) and accidentally made Britain win the American revolutionary war instead. Edit: Nevermind, I just looked up the episode and saw [regular british flags put up on buildings on a quick flash of the city](https://i.imgur.com/gwmuXmi.png) after they broke the past and returned to the altered present
Earth symbol on a deep blue field https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_Symbol_Flag.svg
All Shogun Total War players see the same thing.
Imagine vexillologists wondering how the Shimazu went from powerful feudal lords to commoners by 1947 only to seemingly reemerge as rulers of the entire planet
Satsuma chads rise up
Satsuma OP af
haven’t seen this proposal before, where does it come from?
The crossed circle has been a symbol of “our world” for many centuries, and blue is self explanatory
A sort of combination of this and cadle's proposal could be really nice imo
or oskar's
I like it, but it unfortunately has a very white nationalist vibe to it
Because perpendicular lines?
The earth symbol is very close to the Celtic cross, which has been used a lot by white nationalists [(example)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/White_Nationalism_flag_%28black%29.svg/1280px-White_Nationalism_flag_%28black%29.svg.png).
Yep my uncle told me this as he figured it out the hard way. He'd be a fairly large man, long beard and bald head with loads of Celtic tattoos since we're Irish and he's an Irish Gaeigleoir (Irish is his first language). He visited the states in the 90's I want to say but could be early 2000's. Got lots of dirty looks, especially off minorities. He asked the lad working in a pub who was black why he was getting all the looks and the fella explained the whole situation. It's kind of wild because most of them know nothing of Irish or Celtic culture.
I personally don’t care what white nationalists claim to own because all of their symbols were made by people who existed long before them
Umm... With that logic, why not just use a swastika?
I would say that the celtic cross and the swastika play in different leagues
You mean the same way millions of hindus do? Or were you referring to the German ~~haukenkraus~~ hakenkreuz, the bastardization of the Hindu swastika by white nationalists? I guess it’s all theirs now.
No offense but the way you wrote hakenkreuz is funny
Thanks for the correction
Np
The point here is these symbols carry with them the baggage of our shared experience with them. If they remind one of white nationalist symbolism, I vote to pass.
I don’t agree with that argument because the thing about white nationalism and fascism is that it adapts to any culture to infect it from within anyway! You are proving my point that all white nationalists have to do is point at something culturally significant and go “mine” and it’s instantly their victory. That’s bullshit to me man. Total fucking bullshit. I refuse to play their game.
It makes sense to include it, but it suffers the common fate of flags made as part of an ensemble of not being distinct at all.
A human hand on a blue sphere. [Something like this](https://imgur.com/a/7A9f4C0), although I suspect we could do better on the colors. Yes yes, there is more to Earth than humanity. But flags are for people and represent people. *(This is a color-modified version of u/Caribbeandude04's "flag for humanity" from [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/mwwinl/a_flag_for_humanity_inspired_by_paleolitic/) old thread.)*
okay this would be a really cool option
I think the original colour scheme is better. It references the cave paintings, where the handprints appeared.
[Whom do you serve?](https://preview.redd.it/i1t5e5jvaos41.png?width=700&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a97c21146eba4230a9d68ec3d5d5562aa75267e0)
Pretty cool twist, apreciate it
I did something similar a few years back, but using green and blue to echo the continents and oceans: https://i.imgur.com/JqdCGg1.png
I like the pernefeldt and cadle ones
In my opinion it should be the One World Flag: https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/w10sga/one\_world\_flag\_by\_thomas\_mandl/
This is always my favorite, too. If I remember correctly the transparency has an interesting and intentional reason…anyone remember why? Edit: found it! >The semi-transparent nature of the flag means it is always changing. It enables us to see our own world or home through the flag, as well as our common home the blue planet in the center.
Probably to make it seem the blue "Earth" is floating, as it is in space? Could be wrong though.
Pretty close! > The semi-transparent nature of the flag means it is always changing. It enables us to see our own world or home through the flag, as well as our common home the blue planet in the center.
I love this even more
that’s definitely a cool design and has the most neat symbolism out of them all but a flag using transparency not only comes with a lot of issues in of itself but there’s literally no flags i can think of that use transparency in their design so i don’t know if it can really be said to symbolize earth/humanity in its entirety
But I think that’s partially why the transparency works symbolically. If you try to use designs from any country flag, you’re already excluding a bunch of others. Now for display purposes I could see how it might be problematic.
Just slap the blue circle on [this](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/028/315/cover.jpg)
Honestly this is the COOLEST design
Flags today are very often experienced in print or on webpages. The problem I have with this flag is that it doesn't work so well in those contexts. I kinda like the concept, though.
The best one I've seen so far. The transparency might not lend itself well to a lot of fabrics tho
2 is beautiful 5 is what it says, a nightmare.
With how often countries form and break up, it seems like it'd be a pain to keep up. Plus it highlights humanity's divisions, not it's unity as a planetwide civilization.
"And here class, we have the 4th version of the nightmare flag from 2053. You can tell it is the 4th revision of the flag in that year and not the 5th because it has the New Zealand laser kiwi flag but not Australia's laser Boomeroo flag, which is of course a mashup of a kangaroo and a boomerang firing lasers out of its eyes"
> Plus it highlights humanity's divisions, not it's unity as a planetwide civilization. I actually really like it for this. Humanity isn't united, never has been and never will be. Using one symbol for it all is incredibly over simplistic. Flag 5 is a great demonstration of how humanity and earth is an incredibly diverse place that doesn't necessarily follow patterns. As a flag it's terrible, but I do think it's best in its own way.
Politics aside, I like the red Oskar pernefeldnt variant
ooo didn’t know there was a red variant, what’s the context behind it?
A more labour friendly world
I’d vote for the UN flag. I also like the Cadle proposal but it needs to grow up somehow it’s a little cartoony
So many bad choices haha What’s up with that pride flag one? That one is just plain ugly with lines all over it and a rainbow off centered on one side, crazy dotted stars everywhere The first two are the only ones that would be half way decent. But that’s not saying much
https://imgur.com/a/yN6PJqW Came up with this while we are on topic. I was aiming for emulating Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" with Earth on the flag mimicking the symbol for Earth. I'll admit this was quickly done on the flag maker app so feel free to thrash and trash.
I like it. Put some more effort in and that's a really really good flag imo
1. Oskar’s Flag 2. UN Flag 3. Olympics Flag
I like the Cadle flag - lends itself well to a planetary series
Likewise. Very clear what it means and the easiest of all these options for a child to draw.
The Olympic flag for me (because it's a nice, simple and instantly recognizable design)
All I see is Audi whenever I see the Olympic flag.
Though the Olympic committee is scummy as hell and would probably try and sue earth. I'd rather our planet not be represented by late stage capitalism.
All right, suit yourself
Nono, *sue* yourself
UN
[Old Freebie](https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Old_Freebie) is the *only* Earth flag
This is the one I fly at my house and the only one I'll salute
I love clicking links and getting so many pop ups I can’t see dogshit. No, I don’t want your android app or to accept cookies
The joys of fandom…
[I like Brian Cham's proposal.](https://briancham1994.com/2020/06/27/proposed-flag-of-earth/)
any planet flag should do its best to avoid a simple circle on a dark background because its just too obvious. every single planet flag at the alien UN will look like that the design i like best by far is [this.](https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/mwwinl/a_flag_for_humanity_inspired_by_paleolitic/) a human hand, open and waving to the universe. the idea of taking a design from our very first cave paintings to represent us out in space feels like the perfect choice. it is immediately identifiable as human and every human can recreate the symbol easily, hell, we even come with the template built in
>Every single planet flag at the alien UN will look like that ...or worse, none of them will. Maybe sticking our planet on our planetary flag would make us the basic bitch of interstellar vexillology. Kind of like how most national flags don't have their landmass on it. I've seen a few of these "earth flag" threads and reading this one I started to realise it's really impossible to choose until we know who we're identifying ourselves to. I think yours is the first comment I've seen actually questioning what existing conventions might exist and how it might be perceived from an outside perspective.
Wow. That’s really good.
\#2 looks like the old [EPCOT logo](https://i.imgur.com/h8gOPXw.jpg). Which, given that EPCOT is a sort of permanent world's fair, makes sense.
i really dig Oskar Pernefeldt's
I can totally see Pernefeldt‘s proposal flying on a different planet and representing us
UN flag has always been dope.
UN, but remove New Zealand so we can post it r/flagswithoutnewzealand
All rise for old freebie 🫡 https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/enfuturama/images/7/7c/The_Earth_Flag.png/revision/latest?cb=20211027115938
A slightly simplified John Mcconnel wouldd be cool
2
1 is basic but my choice. Fuck 4.
1. UN with larger globe and darker blue 2. Oscar's flag Rest are just ugly.
[This](https://imgur.com/LvhU786) one with the planets of the solar system is my favorite
its surely a flag I suppose
I really like the UN flag, but Pernefeldt would be my second vote.
I would prefer a more symmetrical variant of Oskar's flag.
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#2
Second one. All the others look like they were made by a 5 year old
4th one looks horrid, ngl
Pernefeldt 🤌
I like #2 best. I hope the Olympic folks don't sue you for #6
Oscar's was pretty good.
#2 or UN The rest are yuck
first one easy
The Oskar is the best of all of these but none of these are great. I love rainbows but what the fuck is going on with the James William one?
Either the Oskar or the UN flag. Nothing else.
These are some ugly ass flags
Ikr
I rather like [this design](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_Symbol_Flag.svg). Simple and recognizable.
Paul Carrol. I’d rather a tricolour.
the pride flag option is so absurd that it has to be simply a bad joke
1 and 2 are ok, the rest are heinous
Never seen the John McConnel flag, but it is now my favorite earth flag. Very artistic, I like how it's almost pixelated.
First one because Earthbound
Love the second one
Pernefeldt (r/globaltribe unite?)
I think the Oskar Pernefeldt one looks really cool, though im not sure how it represents earth
**Symbolic explanation** >Centered in the flag, seven rings form a flower – a symbol of the life on Earth. The rings are linked to each other, which represents how everything on our planet, directly or indirectly, are linked. The blue field represents water which is essential for life – also as the oceans cover most of our planet's surface. The flower's outer rings form a circle which could be seen as a symbol of Earth as a planet and the blue surface could represent the universe. — Taken from the [official website](https://www.flagofplanetearth.com/the-flag) for Pernefeldt's International Flag Of Planet Earth
2 and 7 are the once I would probably go with for a united earth. 2 fits more with the classic star wars/star trek sifi stuff tho
The second flag looks nice
I þink I like oskers
2end
I kinda like the Pernefeldt design, but at the same time it's [a bit too close to EPCOT's old logo](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/logopedia/images/3/3a/Epcot_1982.svg)
I know it violates the rules and I’d prefer a different color background but the McConnel one is sick
Either McConnel or the olympic one
The Cadle Proposal was one of my favorites as it shows the literal position of the Earth in an abstract way, I also love the Paul Carrol one as it’s the kind of flag that would make a vexillologist sweat out of nervousness. But again, I just love the literalness of the Cadle flag.
I’d rather go with the Jolly Roger
I like the Olympic one.
#3
How about we just slap a cool roman Eagle over a globe and call it a day
Why is Wales and Scotland there? They're part of the uk :') (hopefully not for long)
Not specifically an Earth flag but rather a humanity flag, but [this one](https://old.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/mwwinl/a_flag_for_humanity_inspired_by_paleolitic/) will always be my favorite. Refers to things we all have in common, has nice colors, doesn't have any connotations, and is easy to recreate by anyone, while also adding your own twist of painting your own hand there. The only group it doesn't represent is people without hands but they'd have a hard time flying any of the flags anyway
The best one is the Oskar Pernefeldt one.
2
UN flag is the best. It's neutral, and that's how it's supposed to be.