The idea that one day Earth will finally be at peace and united under a single government is something that interests a great many people. If such event were to happen, what would be the flag that humanity would plant on newly discovered planets as we spread throughout the stars? A graphic designer named Oskar Pernefeldt designed an interesting idea of one flag. His design is a blue field with a series of intersecting white circles. The design looks similar to the Olympic flag if you look at it at a certain angle. Pernefeldt chose the color blue to represent the ocean that covers the majority of Earth's surface. The rings interconnecting are supposed to represent all life on Earth and how everything is connected to each other in some way. This idea isn't something new, since people have been making imaginative flags since it possible to do. Now, some people believe that should the Earth be united, that we shouldn't have flags anymore, as flags are indicative of separate groups of people divided by social constructs. Basically, if we're united as one people, we shouldn't have a flag because flag in this case represents countries. I personally feel that if there was one human nation, then we should have one united flag, as this new flag will represent everyone on Earth. In any case, the future of Earth being united under one flag is still something that hopefully is attainable in the future. When humans start (hopefully we do) spreading throughout the stars, we need a flag to plant to represent humanity extending our reach. For the flag design, I like Pernefeldt's design, but I feel like it should have more symbolism.
Link to the article with Oskar Pernefeldt's flag design.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/18/8622411/international-flag-planet-earth-design-mockups
I find Google's new "invention" quite interesting due to the pro's and con's that it brings up. As it is America is by far one of the States with the highest obesity problem: our kids have more health problems due to their weigh and eating habits. It does worry me that this will only increase those rates even higher, before we barely had any exercise activities to do and now with this advantage we won't have any at all. As for the advantages it makes things easier for some people that have a very busy and fast pace life that barely have time to cook or go pick up their food not to mention moms that have kids and have a hard time going out for food.
ReplyDeleteI definitely find Googles invention interesting. Is a great invention from Google but with the problem we have from obesity it would only make things worse dipites that I still think is a great invention that Google has made.
ReplyDeleteI find this very interesting because who doesn't like food but I think that's just being more lazy than before. I think it's smart but not that healthy, before you at least walked inside the store or at least cook but using google to order food you will barely walk to the front door. It's a great idea if people know how to use it correctly.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of ordering your food from online, though there is a problem with that. The problem that people will take advantage of ordering food online from fast food joints rather than actually getting up and going, which increased unhealthy eating and eventually more obesity.
ReplyDeleteHonestly this is funny to me how we are progressing to such a lazy society, I feel like we might end up like the people from wall-e. I just hope all the cliche robot versus humanity thing doesn't come to play but on a serious note I personally don't agree with all the new drone type things that are happening because they take away potential jobs that could have been given to someone who wants or needs a job.
ReplyDeleteI honestly found this very amusing and helpful at the same time. As lazy as it will make me sound but having food delivered to you with just a couple of searches sounds pretty cool and i can see myself doing it pretty soon if it's as easy as it sounds.
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