The flag of Mars designed by Pascal Lee is:
1. Quite unaesthetic, which is completely opposite of how a flag should be.
2. It is a tricolor, like 1 in every 3 flags. A flag that represents a planet should be unique.
3. It is based on a book series, and therefore is lacking originality in my opinion.
4. The lone thing it symbolizes is not Mars itself, but its terraformation, a process that may never take place.
Therefore, one I have designed my own version.
The drop on one line and the rise on the other represent the largest canyon and the highest mountain in the solar system, both on Mars.
The white in the square is the new page mars is to humanity, and could also be the sun that looks white on mars.
The four dots then represent the planet's position in the Solar System: Mercury, Venus, Earth and then Mars.
The black separating the two halves of the flag is the space that separates Earth and Mars, and the inner white is the spacecraft that will get us there.
The red background represents the surface of Mars.
This petition will, once reaching a certain amount of signatures, be sent to various space-faring entities which are not restricted by the International Space Treaty, such as the Planetary Society and the Mars Society.
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December 15, 2016
I really thought this might just be me staring at a wall design forever but the support is actually getting somewhere now. It is wild to think that other people are looking at my Mars design and seeing the same potential for a new future that I see when I close my eyes at night.
39 Comments
As a threshold event of the future of humanity, we must have a flag that is at least unique and original.
I like this flag far more than the current proposed one. Nothing about the other one really says "Mars", this one I think both aestetically and symbolically far better captures the awe and wonder that the prospect of colonising Mars one day has to offer.
As much as I love Kim Stanley Robinson's books, the flag of Mars that it inspired is incredibly unasthaetic, and thus needs to be changed.
As a guy interested in vexillology, this is a much better flag design than the current one. The current one just reminds me of RGB and televisions.
Critically speaking as an art enthusiasts and my melancholic personality... Yes! I agree with this flag's structured theme. It is based on facts and it is artfully symbolic that are easy to understand.
Ravit
LETS RISE AS ONE AND TERRAFORM MARS!
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The flag of Mars designed by Pascal Lee is:
1. Quite unaesthetic, which is completely opposite of how a flag should be.
2. It is a tricolor, like 1 in every 3 flags. A flag that represents a planet should be unique.
3. It is based on a book series, and therefore is lacking originality in my opinion.
4. The lone thing it symbolizes is not Mars itself, but its terraformation, a process that may never take place.
Therefore, one I have designed my own version.
The drop on one line and the rise on the other represent the largest canyon and the highest mountain in the solar system, both on Mars.
The white in the square is the new page mars is to humanity, and could also be the sun that looks white on mars.
The four dots then represent the planet's position in the Solar System: Mercury, Venus, Earth and then Mars.
The black separating the two halves of the flag is the space that separates Earth and Mars, and the inner white is the spacecraft that will get us there.
The red background represents the surface of Mars.
This petition will, once reaching a certain amount of signatures, be sent to various space-faring entities which are not restricted by the International Space Treaty, such as the Planetary Society and the Mars Society.
Please take a moment to share this petition with your friends.
Updates
December 15, 2016
I really thought this might just be me staring at a wall design forever but the support is actually getting somewhere now. It is wild to think that other people are looking at my Mars design and seeing the same potential for a new future that I see when I close my eyes at night.
39 Comments
Having a flag with greater depth of meaning for Mars and terraforming will help promote interest in the project.
As a threshold event of the future of humanity, we must have a flag that is at least unique and original.
I like this flag far more than the current proposed one. Nothing about the other one really says "Mars", this one I think both aestetically and symbolically far better captures the awe and wonder that the prospect of colonising Mars one day has to offer.
As much as I love Kim Stanley Robinson's books, the flag of Mars that it inspired is incredibly unasthaetic, and thus needs to be changed.
As a guy interested in vexillology, this is a much better flag design than the current one. The current one just reminds me of RGB and televisions.
Critically speaking as an art enthusiasts and my melancholic personality... Yes! I agree with this flag's structured theme. It is based on facts and it is artfully symbolic that are easy to understand.
Ravit
LETS RISE AS ONE AND TERRAFORM MARS!
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Having a flag with greater depth of meaning for Mars and terraforming will help promote interest in the project.