[HN Gopher] 1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background
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       1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background
        
       Author : davidbarker
       Score  : 178 points
       Date   : 2026-06-08 01:37 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (1worldflag.com)
        
       | adzm wrote:
       | Transparency in a flag is new to me. It's surprisingly effective
       | here. Could this be done with just cloth without synthetics by
       | using thinner threads or thread count?
        
         | kelseyfrog wrote:
         | The microplastics inherent in synthetics is the point.
        
           | BSDobelix wrote:
           | Good one ;) and a flag should never be wet, so cover it in
           | Teflon.
        
         | alm4x wrote:
         | The website mentions silk organza at
         | https://1worldflag.com/flag/. That's where my mind went
         | initially, some kind of sheer silk fabric. I don't know how
         | durable it would be in the elements though.
        
           | nextaccountic wrote:
           | That would be the first flag that isn't vegan, which..
           | doesn't look very cool
        
             | benj111 wrote:
             | I'm sure there have been plenty of flags that haven't been
             | vegan.
        
               | nyanmatt wrote:
               | You could make any flag out of non-vegan materials, sure.
               | But that this flag was designed with the basis of cruelty
               | (silk) makes it also conceptually non-vegan.
               | 
               | What a great way to unite the world in a practice of
               | cruelty to its inhabitants
               | 
               | - 1worldforhumansonlyflag -
               | 1worldindifferenttosufferingflag
               | 
               | The whole idea falls flat on its face because of this for
               | me.
        
         | fiatpandas wrote:
         | I also love the transparency and am surprised it hasn't been
         | used more. Granted, it would be very difficult to achieve with
         | natural materials and also be durable. A flag should be able to
         | withstand an ocean voyage exposed to the elements.
        
           | rob74 wrote:
           | I think you pointed out very well why it hasn't been used
           | more: lack of durability. Either it has to be some kind of
           | plastic foil, in which case it has to be thin enough to fly
           | in the wind the same way as a traditional flag does, so it
           | will degrade very quickly when exposed to the elements. Or
           | the silk organza suggested on the page, but if it's thin
           | enough to be (almost) transparent I'm not convinced that it
           | would fare much better.
           | 
           | So, nice idea, but completely impractical, which makes it a
           | gimmick.
        
         | invalidusernam3 wrote:
         | It's a novel and fun idea! I also wonder how it would be
         | represented correctly as a digital image, could be as an actual
         | png or maybe the white/grey checker pattern from PhotoShop?
         | Realistically probably just with a white background
        
         | lloeki wrote:
         | I feel what makes it work well here is also that it's not
         | _perfectly_ transparent so you can still see it wave in the
         | wind and make out it 's rectangular shape.
         | 
         | I'd definitely take that into consideration for a digital
         | version.
        
           | anaumann wrote:
           | >> I'd definitely take that into consideration for a digital
           | version.
           | 
           | Finally, an application for Apple's Liquid Glass UI
        
             | hsbauauvhabzb wrote:
             | Seems unfair to associate anything good with that
             | abomination.
        
             | lloeki wrote:
             | Well given there's no abuse of refractive light bending it
             | looks more like whatever frosted glass existed before
             | liquid glass.
             | 
             | Also this flag has square corners.
        
         | bux93 wrote:
         | Not great for t-shirts
        
       | lanyard-textile wrote:
       | Love the idea.
       | 
       | But the transparency :( It makes the whole flag low contrast, an
       | undesirable quality in flags.
        
       | rrgok wrote:
       | I don't like the color blue. Can we change it?
        
         | water-data-dude wrote:
         | Humanity's working on it, lol
        
       | s20n wrote:
       | but that's the wrong shade of blue? It'd have been great if they
       | took the colour from "The blue marble" instead of this Turbo
       | Pascal blue.
        
         | dylan604 wrote:
         | Maybe they couldn't find American Flag Blue??? Or is that
         | reserved for swimming pools now?
        
         | moss_dog wrote:
         | What do you mean by "wrong"?
         | 
         | I reckon the actual color doesn't matter as long as it's blue-
         | ish. There are no branding guidelines or anything. Even the
         | size of the circle is unspecified, which IMO is a feature, not
         | a bug. It's accessible :)
         | 
         | EDIT: I'm incorrect, there is a spec. Whelp! I still like my
         | imagined more-flexible version of the flag.
        
           | dheera wrote:
           | It is the 16-color VGA version of blue, not the version of
           | blue you'd pick if you had a 24-bit color display.
           | 
           | This website reminds me of the early 90s internet because of
           | the specific shade of blue they picked.
        
       | xgkickt wrote:
       | Blue needs to be paler, and the dot smaller ;-)
        
         | dylan604 wrote:
         | I was disappointed it wasn't a pale blue dot as well.
        
           | ant6n wrote:
           | Yeah, it's more like a saturated blue giant circle.
        
       | et1337 wrote:
       | Can't wait for CGP Grey's review of this flag
        
         | monkeywork wrote:
         | is he still making content it feels like its been forever since
         | ive heard anything about him
        
           | boxed wrote:
           | That's what we always say between videos :P
        
           | aquariusDue wrote:
           | He's got a regular monthly podcast called Codex if you're
           | into that format too.
        
             | RugnirViking wrote:
             | *cortex
        
             | jrflo wrote:
             | He hasn't been on cortex for over a year
        
           | latexr wrote:
           | Like so many other creators, seems like Grey's main focus
           | might now be on podcasts. Easier to produce and monetise.
        
           | mcmoor wrote:
           | Seems like his work now is just keep changing thumbnails of
           | his old videos to bait me into rewatching it.
        
       | Leptonmaniac wrote:
       | So this is effectively the Esperanto of flags?
        
         | hackernulls wrote:
         | Yep, that no one uses too.
        
         | jszymborski wrote:
         | Esperanto actually already has a flag
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_symbols#/media/File%...
        
           | layer8 wrote:
           | He asked about the Esperanto of flags, not about the flags of
           | Esperanto.
        
             | jszymborski wrote:
             | Wouldn't the Esperanto of Flags be the flag of Esperanto?
        
               | layer8 wrote:
               | The Esperanto of sign languages wouldn't inherently be
               | the sign language of Esperanto. The same goes for flags.
        
               | jszymborski wrote:
               | I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree!
        
         | TwoFerMaggie wrote:
         | I suppose a lot of flags are esperanto of flags...
        
       | rolymath wrote:
       | Judging by the comments here, the 1worldflag should have been a
       | picture of two people arguing.
        
         | grebc wrote:
         | Yes! Classic.
         | 
         | We don't have an outside enemy atm so we squabble amongst
         | ourselves, it's a pattern as old as humans have gathered into
         | groups.
        
         | hgoel wrote:
         | Probably more fitting as the flag of HN
        
       | NordStreamYacht wrote:
       | Esperanto flag.
        
       | seirim wrote:
       | Try to add a favicon for the website if you can guys, a blue dot
       | would work well here.
        
       | nickandbro wrote:
       | This will be needed for the galactic civil wars that will soon
       | take place.
        
       | ARandomerDude wrote:
       | What if we took Japan's flag, imagined it printed on paper, but
       | made the dot blue?
        
       | Skidaddle wrote:
       | Very cool, hard to beat the Earthican flag though
       | 
       | https://theinfosphere.org/images/1/17/Earth_Flag.svg
        
         | slekker wrote:
         | Did you miss an "/s"? That's horrendous!
        
           | fc417fc802 wrote:
           | Not at all - it's clearly intended as a threat. /s
        
           | Skidaddle wrote:
           | Yes it's from Futurama
        
       | pixlmint wrote:
       | Holy typo... does the one world not have proofreaders?
        
         | amarant wrote:
         | Nope! They were sent off along with other useful professionals
         | such as telephone cleaners on a big space ship!
        
       | simondotau wrote:
       | Like all flags, this will come to represent those who choose to
       | fly it, and the causes they fly it for. Which then makes them
       | symbols of the ideas opposed by people who think flag waving is
       | cringe.
        
       | patates wrote:
       | I like the direction of unity but this will probably be
       | problematic when we eventually start to colonize other planets. I
       | don't want our first settlers to feel discriminated, so please
       | kindly make a new version with more universality - now that I
       | think about it, Universal Pictures also has the world in their
       | logo so maybe this IS universal but we probably we need Jim and
       | Hannah in the loop as well so they can chime in, and last but not
       | least, we need a review from the legal so I CC'd to all, expect
       | some new ideas/requirements.
       | 
       | Also, can we please make it "pop"?
       | 
       | ps. Attaching a version I made, and this took _a lot_ of back and
       | forth with chatgpt because I care about this a lot, so please
       | have a look, I think we are close to something great here!
       | 
       | Looking forward to seeing more from you!
       | 
       | ps2. when I was about to send our manufacturing guy entered the
       | room and he said the transparency could be a problem. Some
       | alternatives without compromising the idea would be great! They
       | must be cheap but elegant! Thank you!!
        
         | reconnecting wrote:
         | > we eventually start to colonize other planets.
         | 
         | Could you please clarify which ones? I'm planning my escape,
         | but it seems that even lightspeed wouldn't be enough to
         | colonize anything suitable.
        
           | boxed wrote:
           | Eh? If you go at light speed you can literally go everywhere
           | in the universe subjectively instantly due to time dilation.
        
             | reconnecting wrote:
             | > If you go at light speed
             | 
             | I will certainly not. And even if I did -- within any
             | reachable radius there's nothing actually suitable,
             | everything is _10+ ly_ away, but maybe I missed something.
        
               | hgoel wrote:
               | If you were traveling very close to light speed, time
               | dilation would mean your experience of time is slowed
               | down, such that if you can go infinitely close to the
               | speed of light, you can travel anywhere as quickly as you
               | have the energy for. For an observer on Earth you'd still
               | take however many lightyears away the location is.
        
       | karol wrote:
       | I would live to see the transparency around the funding and goals
       | of this project.
        
         | nakedneuron wrote:
         | Lacking transparency is a red flag.
        
           | prox wrote:
           | Nothing a good conversation to PNG can't fix
        
           | pelagicAustral wrote:
           | Thank you for flagging this issue.
        
           | butlike wrote:
           | That's deeply funny since the Japanese flag is opaque white
           | and red
        
       | suddenlybananas wrote:
       | Looks like something out of 1997.
        
       | visha1v wrote:
       | the most european thing i've seen today
        
       | glerk wrote:
       | I like this. And furthermore, it is my opinion that all current
       | nation states should be dismantled.
        
         | legostormtroopr wrote:
         | And replaced with what?
        
           | BSDobelix wrote:
           | Have you read the utopian book "Starship Troopers" from
           | Heinlein ;)
        
             | elictronic wrote:
             | It had a real Mary Poppins feel when interacting with the
             | skinnies.
        
           | glerk wrote:
           | That can be figured out after the dismantling process :)
           | 
           | My personal utopian take: smaller communities/city-states
           | that would naturally coalesce into more fluid confederations.
           | A lot of these communities could also be distributed and non-
           | local.
        
           | Towaway69 wrote:
           | Money.
        
         | altmanaltman wrote:
         | good opinion and one that most agree with
         | 
         | what most don't agree with: what happens next?
        
           | yanhangyhy wrote:
           | civil war?
        
         | BSDobelix wrote:
         | >all current nation states should be dismantled.
         | 
         | Fun fact. Just people who live in a shitty country want that,
         | maybe instead of change everyone else, change you own country?
        
           | dostick wrote:
           | I am from so called 1st world, how do you define "shitty
           | country", are there better ones?
        
             | BSDobelix wrote:
             | Yes and it's really easy.
             | 
             | Are the vast majority happy? = Good one
             | 
             | If not = Shitty
             | 
             | Example? Norway[1] = good, Sudan[2] = really..really shitty
             | 
             | [1] https://www.bi.no/en/research/business-
             | review/articles/2025/...
             | 
             | [2] https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2025/sudan-
             | voices/
             | 
             | To be honest, those two are so far apart it's not even
             | comparable.
        
           | 9dev wrote:
           | German here, I want the same. We are one species inhabiting a
           | single habitable world in a giant dead void. Nationalism is
           | an idiotic game of no value that causes destruction of
           | resources we need, senseless killing in wars over nothing,
           | and ultimately merely a distraction from everything that's
           | really important.
        
             | rlpb wrote:
             | The paradox of tolerance applies though. It helps to keep
             | the intolerants at bay.
        
               | emaro wrote:
               | No borders doesn't mean no rules.
        
             | BSDobelix wrote:
             | Nothing against a Coordinating body like the UN, and really
             | small states (lets call them community's).
             | 
             | But there is no "we are the world, we are the children",
             | future is probably more like US/EU/EAU (east asia union),
             | now you have 3 big blocks fighting against each other (much
             | higher world-ending chance). More power = more bully....
             | 
             | >everything that's really important.
             | 
             | Yes your right, and talking...even with a enemy should be
             | considered the base for future world-freedom.
        
               | 9dev wrote:
               | No, I'm absolutely aware that we are - as of now - unable
               | to get past the pettiness of nationality and tribalism.
               | Maybe it's so ingrained in us, we'll never get past that,
               | I don't know.
               | 
               | It's just massively frustrating to see what humanity
               | could accomplish if we weren't occupied bashing our heads
               | in over religion, nationality, or color of skin. The
               | planet - the only planet - is dying, people and animals
               | are suffering, and the news are dominated by a particular
               | clown and his circus. It's really unbearable sometimes.
        
               | BSDobelix wrote:
               | >The planet - the only planet - is dying, people and
               | animals are suffering, and the news are dominated by a
               | particular clown and his circus. It's really unbearable
               | sometimes.
               | 
               | Oh man you speak from my heart, it's like we live on a
               | star-ship, but everyone looks just at their own room
               | instead of steering the ship into a better future.
               | 
               | EDIT: However, as we see a shift from the UN (as a future
               | captain?) to NATO (at least in the so called "West"), i
               | see dark times ahead of us.
        
               | SuddsMcDuff wrote:
               | > It's just massively frustrating to see what humanity
               | could accomplish if we weren't occupied bashing our heads
               | in over religion, nationality, or color of skin.
               | 
               | Resenting the real world because it doesn't live up to
               | your make-believe fantasy world is pathological. I too
               | can imagine perfect utopian worlds where everybody lives
               | in peace and harmony, but they're just fantasies.
               | Eventually you have to come back to the real world and
               | learn to accept the harsh truths of the reality you find
               | yourself inhabiting.
        
               | 9dev wrote:
               | That's not what I have said. Imagine you have a mentally
               | challenged brother you love dearly, who continues to run
               | head-first against a wall. That's what it feels like.
               | Doesn't mean I'm not aware and accepting of the reality
               | we all live in.
               | 
               | Edit: And honestly, I find it a bit pathological to take
               | the sentence you quoted upfront and _not_ feeling similar
               | resentment against those things. Granted, Humans are a
               | belligerent species, but just shrugging these things away
               | is really not an acceptable stance either.
        
               | glerk wrote:
               | > Eventually you have to come back to the real world and
               | learn to accept the harsh truths of the reality you find
               | yourself inhabiting.
               | 
               | I don't know why I feel so much contempt for people like
               | you. I kinda get it, you want to feel intellectually
               | superior. You're the reasonable one, the adult in the
               | room, etc. but seriously bro, this reality is so fucking
               | harsh. What keeps you going? Why are you still here and
               | going through with it?
        
               | BSDobelix wrote:
               | >Resenting the real world because it doesn't live up to
               | your make-believe fantasy world is pathological.
               | 
               | I dont think world-peace (more or less) is impossible,
               | even if it's more like "Brave New World" instead of
               | "1984".
               | 
               | Or maybe something like the UN with a strong peace-force
               | and WITHOUT a security council but a real and fair
               | democratic decision process.
               | 
               | And maybe the most important point, i have not seen real
               | War-Winners (except the mil.-industrial-blabla) since the
               | 2. World-war....just losers on both sides.
        
           | glerk wrote:
           | I've lived in several different countries. There are nice
           | people everywhere. The country governments are shitty
           | everywhere.
        
             | yuppiepuppie wrote:
             | > The country governments are shitty everywhere.
             | 
             | Compared to what?
        
               | glerk wrote:
               | Honestly, compared to any random sample of non-retarded
               | and non-malicious people you can find.
        
             | BSDobelix wrote:
             | Funny i live in a country where the people are the
             | government, and with your knowledge of different country's,
             | the future World-Government would not just be shitty but
             | untouchable mighty. I want really small, face to face
             | responsible governments.
        
               | glerk wrote:
               | > the people are the government
               | 
               | A lot of countries claim that. I think that can only work
               | at a small scale.
               | 
               | > I want really small, face to face responsible
               | governments
               | 
               | We are not that different :)
        
             | 0xDEAFBEAD wrote:
             | Why would a world government be any better?
        
         | Auracle wrote:
         | It's a nice goal, but no thank you. In my opinion, more of the
         | world needs to be all but quarantined.
        
           | SuddsMcDuff wrote:
           | I expect there are many people who agree with this sentiment,
           | unfortunately they might not agree on precisely which areas
           | ought to be quarantined. And those who happen to live in the
           | areas you want to quarantine might disagree most vigorously.
        
         | halapro wrote:
         | I wish so too, but clearly this is not in any way practical.
         | The EU is the closest thing we got to "fewer borders"
        
           | glerk wrote:
           | We can always dream and then find ways to make it practical
           | :)
           | 
           | It's encouraging I didn't get downvoted as much as I expected
           | I would.
        
         | yanhangyhy wrote:
         | if cannot merge into 1, at least we can make it a few. 200+ is
         | a waste of resources on so many levels.. so many countries
         | really don't need to exist and have shitty a government...
        
       | hotep99 wrote:
       | Will be useful for the inevitable war against the offworld
       | colonies.
        
         | BSDobelix wrote:
         | I just hope that Mars is not adapting the Japanese
         | flag...pretty bad for colorblind soldiers ;)
        
           | skullone wrote:
           | The Mars colonies would never choose independence!
        
       | layer8 wrote:
       | The Land of the Rising Sea.
        
       | mock-possum wrote:
       | Looks too much like japan's flag.
       | 
       | Let's try an earth and a sunrise behind it - half a circle
       | sitting on the bottom of the rectangle, and a yellow circle
       | making a sunrise on top of that, like a yolk sitting on a blue
       | egg.
        
       | pixel_popping wrote:
       | It should be a different color, because this will be attached to
       | either politics (which you don't want) or EU (which you also
       | don't want), some completely independent color could actually
       | trigger curiosity to look it up.
        
         | its-summertime wrote:
         | I believe its a reference to the planet being a pale blue dot.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
        
         | scratcheee wrote:
         | Disagree, though you're right it's a little bit similar to the
         | eu flag, but only a little, plenty of countries manage with
         | more similar flags.
         | 
         | Flags don't exist for the period where they're gaining
         | recognition. Compromising the significance of the iconography
         | for the temporary gain of not being misidentified during the
         | period it isn't recognisable would just mean if it gains
         | recognition it will forever be less than it could be.
         | 
         | In other words, with flags you need to play to win, not to
         | survive. Better that the attempt have a higher risk of failure
         | with a great flag than a lower risk with a mediocre flag.
         | 
         | The pale blue dot is an excellent way to represent a global
         | outlook and "we're all in it together", not sure I can think of
         | a better pedigree for this concept. I'd perhaps have been
         | tempted to make it a smaller blue dot, but flags do need to be
         | recognised at a distance, so it can't be too much smaller.
        
       | trashb wrote:
       | I like the idea to have a symbol to unite the world under one
       | flag.
       | 
       | The blue dot seems to make sense as it represents the world
       | without focusing on one perspective or projection of the world
       | map. The transparent background also makes sense for the flag,
       | but I think it would be more recognizable if it was just a white
       | background (in my mind the default flag background).
       | 
       | Also it seems to me transparent materials are in general more
       | polluting. On the website it mentions a black background was
       | considered (I suppose representing space). It would be nice if
       | there was an alternative version chosen without the transparency
       | for mediums where transparency is not an option either black or
       | white would suffice imho.
       | 
       | As others mentioned it does seem very similar (same proportions)
       | as the Japanese flag. I wonder what the opinion of the Japanese
       | is on this concept.
        
         | Theodores wrote:
         | Note that blue was an expensive colour until recent times.
         | Painters would use it sparingly.
         | 
         | Nowadays blue is easy and common in flags, and much else, so
         | this flag design is high tech.
        
       | bloak wrote:
       | There are lots of world flags:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Earth
       | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_Flag_Simple.sv...
        
         | arrowsmith wrote:
         | Don't forget Futurama's:
         | https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Old_Freebie
        
           | MisterTea wrote:
           | It's in the article:
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Earth#Futurama
        
         | layer8 wrote:
         | ...which also lists this thread's flag, that apparently is from
         | 2016.
        
         | caseyohara wrote:
         | I quite like the James W. Cadle one from 1970.
        
           | masfuerte wrote:
           | Yes. It has the simplicity of a traditional flag but
           | recognisably represents the earth. The 2016 one (which this
           | thread is about) is too similar to the Japanese flag. Or the
           | Blaupunkt logo.
        
         | Groxx wrote:
         | Surprisingly, none with crabs on them.
         | 
         | Carcinization will fix that eventually. And then Roko's
         | Crabulisk will hunt down everyone who didn't vote for the crab
         | flag.
        
           | Walf wrote:
           | Anteaters will be more likely, apparently.
           | 
           | https://phys.org/news/2025-07-mammals-evolved-ant-eaters-
           | din...
        
       | spondyl wrote:
       | I can't help but be distracted by the 26MB flag video that my
       | fibre connection is only able to download at 150 KB/sec here in
       | New Zealand?
        
       | vintagedave wrote:
       | I appreciate the ethos of unity, but in a sense it scares me were
       | this ever to be political unity -- because I don't trust it would
       | remain (or even ever be) democratic and free.
       | 
       | We see so many examples of power hurting citizens in existing
       | nations. The _risk_ if the entire world had one political unity,
       | of losing freedom, is extreme.
       | 
       | With multiple nations and blocs, at least some remain showing an
       | example of what can exist in the others.
        
         | pelagicAustral wrote:
         | The only way we'll going to achieve anything remotely akin to
         | World Unity(tm) is as some form of dystopic Warhammer 40K
         | future. You try putting even 5 people in a root have them reach
         | consensus on anything.
        
       | mattvr wrote:
       | Is there information on the license of this flag? Not how/if
       | clear you can reproduce it legally.
        
       | hermitcrab wrote:
       | Someone made a flag to express unity and we've just all come here
       | to argue about it. How very human.
        
         | BSDobelix wrote:
         | Are not ~all flags made to express unity?
         | 
         | However that one looks better:
         | https://www.flagofplanetearth.com/
         | 
         | Fight me :)
        
           | jslakro wrote:
           | I wouldn't trust any flag with a hexiform shape. I mean,
           | hexagons can be found in the wild but one perfect circle
           | reflects better our human nature
        
           | butlike wrote:
           | What are these marketing sites advertising the Earth flag?
           | Who's buying?!
        
           | hermitcrab wrote:
           | >Are not ~all flags made to express unity?
           | 
           | Usually the unity of some humans against other humns.
        
       | amai wrote:
       | Will we put this flag on the moon?
        
       | stevenalowe wrote:
       | How about a pale blue dot on a black background
        
       | ChiperSoft wrote:
       | Nothing says "I care about the earth" like a giant sheet of
       | plastic.
        
         | lolc wrote:
         | The flag is not plastic.
         | 
         | https://1worldflag.com/flag/
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organza
        
       | butlike wrote:
       | It should be a white flag. All the colors, and the fact we
       | embraced it as a flag of unity over a flag of surrender should
       | say all there is to say about us getting over our differences.
       | 
       | Edit: From Wikipedia: (A white flag) serves as an internationally
       | recognized sign of truce and negotiation, meaning "we want to
       | talk". It emerged as an ideal symbol for peace because it is
       | highly visible on the battlefield, is easy to make, and doesn't
       | belong to any specific nation.
        
         | g_delgado14 wrote:
         | White flags are commonly associated with defeat in battle.
         | Probably not the vibe one wants.
        
           | mplanchard wrote:
           | from the post you replied to:
           | 
           | > and the fact we embraced it as a flag of unity over a flag
           | of surrender should say all there is to say about us getting
           | over our differences
        
             | insane_dreamer wrote:
             | hard to change an association that has been around for
             | millennia (literally)
        
               | mplanchard wrote:
               | Yeah I don't disagree, but I think the difficulty is kind
               | of the point in the GP's post: it would take an
               | unprecedented era of peace for us to collectively agree
               | that the idea of "surrender" is an anachronism ready to
               | be reclaimed for a better purpose.
        
               | snypher wrote:
               | Which is why we still worship man-with-bird-head and make
               | sacrifices to the Sun at solstice.
        
               | soulofmischief wrote:
               | White flags are easy to see in the middle of a battle.
               | Don't overthink it.
        
           | mc32 wrote:
           | Especially if this represents the Earth in the face of aliens
           | on other planets and they happen to know the flag of
           | surrender... It would definitely give them the wrong
           | impression about Earth.
        
         | xdennis wrote:
         | A white flag used to be the flag of France:
         | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_France_(1814...
         | 
         | A world flag should not use flags which were associated with a
         | country. Evan this proposal is too derivative of the Japanese
         | flag.
        
           | hdjrudni wrote:
           | I love that they published the SVG. It's invisible.
        
         | savoyard wrote:
         | > It should be a white flag.
         | 
         | And it will be.
        
       | dwoldrich wrote:
       | Modern invented flag peddlers only seek to have us fly flags of
       | the division they seek to generate. I only fly the flag of the
       | country I live in and give side eye to anyone that does
       | otherwise.
        
         | scared_together wrote:
         | Is this a trend? Do you have any other examples? And what
         | division would a world flag generate??
        
           | pessimizer wrote:
           | > And what division would a world flag generate?
           | 
           | It's just a way of saying that you're too good for your
           | neighbors. That's why it would appeal to liberals and
           | libertarians alike.
        
       | linsomniac wrote:
       | I recently was listening to a 99 Percent Invisible podcast:
       | Citizen of the World
       | https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/665-citizen-of-the-wo...
       | 
       | It's about a guy who has been fighting for ~50 years to be able
       | to be a citizen of no country. I left that episode thinking "This
       | is the hero we need right now."
       | 
       | He has set up the World Citizen Government
       | https://worldcitizengov.org/
        
       | metalman wrote:
       | ALL flags(standards/banners) are war symbols, declarations of
       | intent to attack and of terrtory held by conquest,
       | tribes,nations, and franchises alike. Any attemp to float the
       | idea of a world flag is a (hidden attempt) of a declaration of
       | total war on all countrys simultaneously, which unfortunatly is
       | too ridiculous to even get points on style. Fashists always have
       | some sort of fashion kink branding thing plus a cult of
       | personality to get things going, but this one needs WAY too much
       | explaining.
        
         | ball_of_lint wrote:
         | This is simply not true.
         | 
         | Pride flags.
         | 
         | Edit: Also the Esperanto Flag.
        
       | tamimio wrote:
       | That grade of blue is more like Neptune than earth, or blue
       | giant.
        
       | soupspaces wrote:
       | "govvie bad so we make giga govment, then no bad"
       | 
       | Instead of cool cool water make it an income distribution chart.
       | More realistic.
        
       | melonpan7 wrote:
       | I love the initiative, I understand the transparency, although it
       | doesn't really look that great imo.
        
       | flybrand wrote:
       | How would we represent this as a sticker on a vehicle?
       | 
       | White outline around the clear field w blue dot?
        
       | nmeofthestate wrote:
       | The apotheosis of Reddit vexillology where all flag symbolism
       | maps to geographical features.
        
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