The Flag of Earth

Straight-up crosspost from Warren Ellis’ blog, but this was just too cool not to link:

Warren Ellis:

The Flag of Earth symbolizes the Earth (the center blue disk), the Sun (the yellow disk on the left), and the Moon (the white disk on the right). The Earth and its most important celestial neighbors – the Sun and Moon – are overlaid on a backdrop of the darkness of space.

The Flag of Earth website is administered by NAAPO – the North American Astrophysical Observatory. NAAPO is a not-for-profit organization formed to run the Big Ear Radio Observatory in Delaware, Ohio, and which now runs the Ohio Argus Array.

Though in all honesty, wouldn’t most planets capable of appreciating a flag like this have flags that look pretty similar?  Slightly different sizes of circles may not really get the point across.  Especially when you have them hanging on poles on the top of your spaceships, whipping about in the solar wind in the middle of some epic space battle.

That’s not my opinion, that’s just science.  Look it up.