Posted by
Roblimo
on from the now-mars-needs-a-planetary-anthem dept.
Cebert writes "An article on CNN
discusses the new flag for the planet Mars. This just brings back thoughts
of Daffy and Marvin duking it out on Planet X..." And memories of many fine Heinlein tomes, too. Prof. Bernardo de la Paz would have approved, I'm sure.
6 comments
I think the RGB flag is ugly
by
Anonymous Coward
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In my disgustingly selfish opinion, the flag looks horrible. The Planetary Society had a design for a Martian flag many years ago and it looked really great. (I don't know if it's somewhere around their pages) It was reddish-ocra coloured and had a symbolic planet from which an arrow darted into upper right. It had mucho symbolism: a stepping board for future exploration (the arrow), the colourings and also the arrow-thing reminds one of the ancient symbol of Mars as a deity of war (due to the red colour - blood) etc.
The RGB-mockup is ugly, why couldn't they go with the TPS version instead, or at least some sort of more intelligent colouring than three colours which are complement to each other. Well... it's my subjective opinion.
If they can deliver the flag there along with humans in my lifetime then maybe I'll change my mind. But we should really go to the Moon first... oh hell, I won't get started about THAT.
After having voted (against the flag: it sucks) on CNN's site, I was glad to receive the following insightful commentary from CNN:
This poll is not scientific and reflects the opinions of only those Internet users who have chosen to participate. The results cannot be assumed to represent the opinions of Internet users in general, nor the public as a whole.
I guess we can assume that they tack this on below all their polls. Still, someone has at some point actually typed the above words. Granted, it was probably one of their legal people, and the observation will probably come as a surprise to someone. But is there really any chance that CNN could be held responsible for anyone taking the results of any poll to "represent the opinions of Internet users in general, [or] the public as a whole"?
but our flag's not like that?
by
Mr_Ceebs
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so which martian's decided on this? if you can't land a spaceship on it properly you might as well give it a flag, the more I see of the space industry, the more I see those telephone sanitisers from hithchikers rearing their heads
I was a bit curious so I took a look at the Mars Society webpage at http://www.marssociety.org. They have some interesting info on progress towards the exploration of Mars and related projects.
The Mars Society even appears to have some corporate sponsors, which dispells some of my initial thoughts that this could be some random group.
Black/transparent sections?
by
apsmith
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The picture at CNN looked like it had black vertical bars between the colors - probably just a lighting artifact, but it looked kind of cool like that. The background to the picture was the usual black space background, and it occurred to me it might be even better to have, instead of black bars, transparent bars separating the colors. That would make it uniquely different from any Earth flag, don't you think?
By the way - how long has this slashdot science section been up? A good idea, though not many people seem to frequent it...
Sure, they claim the colours are from the Kim Stanley Robinson books. So why do the colours remind me of the martian eyes from 'War of the Worlds'? (The 1950's film, not the book/concept album/computer game)
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In my disgustingly selfish opinion, the flag looks horrible. The Planetary Society had a design for a Martian flag many years ago and it looked really great. (I don't know if it's somewhere around their pages) It was reddish-ocra coloured and had a symbolic planet from which an arrow darted into upper right. It had mucho symbolism: a stepping board for future exploration (the arrow), the colourings and also the arrow-thing reminds one of the ancient symbol of Mars as a deity of war (due to the red colour - blood) etc.
The RGB-mockup is ugly, why couldn't they go with the TPS version instead, or at least some sort of more intelligent colouring than three colours which are complement to each other. Well... it's my subjective opinion.
If they can deliver the flag there along with humans in my lifetime then maybe I'll change my mind. But we should really go to the Moon first... oh hell, I won't get started about THAT.
After having voted (against the flag: it sucks) on CNN's site, I was glad to receive the following insightful commentary from CNN:
This poll is not scientific and reflects the opinions of only those Internet users who have chosen to participate. The results cannot be assumed to represent the opinions of Internet users in general, nor the public as a whole.
I guess we can assume that they tack this on below all their polls. Still, someone has at some point actually typed the above words. Granted, it was probably one of their legal people, and the observation will probably come as a surprise to someone. But is there really any chance that CNN could be held responsible for anyone taking the results of any poll to "represent the opinions of Internet users in general, [or] the public as a whole"?
so which martian's decided on this? if you can't land a spaceship on it properly you might as well give it a flag, the more I see of the space industry, the more I see those telephone sanitisers from hithchikers rearing their heads
The Mars Society even appears to have some corporate sponsors, which dispells some of my initial thoughts that this could be some random group.
The picture at CNN looked like it had black vertical bars between the colors - probably just a lighting artifact, but it looked kind of cool like that. The background to the picture was the usual black space background, and it occurred to me it might be even better to have, instead of black bars, transparent bars separating the colors. That would make it uniquely different from any Earth flag, don't you think?
By the way - how long has this slashdot science section been up? A good idea, though not many people seem to frequent it...
Energy: time to change the picture.
Sure, they claim the colours are from the Kim Stanley Robinson books. So why do the colours remind me of the martian eyes from 'War of the Worlds'? (The 1950's film, not the book/concept album/computer game)