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.
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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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)