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Topic:	The International Flag of Planet Earth (proposal)

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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#ffffff" FACE="arial, helvetica">T O P I C     R E V I E W</font></CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="arial, helvetica">Robert Pearlman</FONT></TD><TD><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="arial, helvetica">Swedish student Oskar Pernefeldt has proposed <a href="http://www.flagofplanetearth.com/" target="AirLock">The International Flag of Earth</a> as a graduation project at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm. <BLOCKQUOTE><I>Current expeditions in outer space use different national flags depending on which country is funding the voyage. The space travelers, however, are more than just representatives of their own countries. <P>They are representatives of planet Earth.<P><B>Purpose of the Flag</B> <OL TYPE=1><LI>To be used while representing planet Earth.<P><LI>To remind the people of Earth that we share this planet, no matter of national boundaries. That we should take care of each other and the planet we live on.</OL></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <center><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/127694736?color=ffffff&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen>

This isn't the first Flag of the Earth to be proposed.

James913

Gee, I thought we had already picked one...

onesmallstep

Haha good one. I'm sure people will counter with something akin to the United Federation of Planets. As for me; I think the flag smacks a little like the rings on the Olympic flag and really doesn't depict or allude to planet earth itself (maybe an image of both hemispheres as seen from space?).

Being such an ephemeral artifact, maybe they should consider making any 'flag' out of metal to survive exposure to extreme sunlight and radiation.

randy

I thought the UN flag was considered the flag of the Earth.

Cozmosis22

A silly idea but a nice project for an art student. And no, the United Nations flag is not the "flag of the earth."

dogcrew5369

One thing came to mind - new world order. I prefer national flags. So if we partner one day with other nations to maybe go to Mars will the United States flag be planted there? I hope so. Just my thought as an American.

Robert Pearlman

Though we only planted the U.S. flag, every Apollo mission to land on the moon carried the flags of more than 100 nations and the United Nations.

That said, I hope by the time we're ready to go to Mars, we're beyond planting any flag. Apollo ended because it was a "flags and footprints" program.

Blackarrow

President Kennedy's goal of "...landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" technically did not require either a flag or footprints. Those were added to the basic idea of landing. But a great deal more was added, too. I doubt if Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt, while sampling the famous "orange soil" at Shorty Crater, would have agreed that Apollo was just about flags and footprints.

Robert Pearlman

Had Apollo not been a flags and footprints program, the discovery of the orange soil would have led to expanded exploration of the moon. Science driven programs generally benefit from discoveries.

The flags and footprints were central to Kennedy's goal: the footprints provided the proof of a man on the moon, and the flags proved that the United States were first (and only) there.

Blackarrow

I was simply pointing out that "landing a man on the Moon" does not technically require that man to get out of his spacecraft. Neil Armstrong was asked about this in Dublin in 2003. My recollection of his answer was that the goal would have been achieved without getting out, but that a failure to conduct an EVA and retrieve rocks would have made the scientists very unhappy. That answer was delivered with his inimitable dry sense of humour.

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