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Proposal for a Flag of Mars

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The way things are currently going, I highly doubt there'll be very many flags on Mars. Corporate logos are another story though.

Flags are generally designed to stand out against the background, so I am not convinced that using red on the martian flag is such a good idea. Which is also why there are few green flags in Europe, and also why the white flag of House Stark does not make any sense :-)

The majority of the flag is white though, and only a small portion is red. So I wouldn't consider this much of an issue. My understanding is that sandstorms are likely to reduce visibility at great distances anyways.

The field is white, so the red will stand out just fine. More pressing though is: what happens when the flag is soiled by a duststorm ?

It looks very similar to the "logo" of Princeton University [1].

[1] https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-eJ6mEvslTq8/AAAAAAAAAAI/A...

Although the idea of colonising Mars is something really exciting, I doubt we will be able to pull it off any time soon. There are many much more hospitable places that we haven't yet "colonised", despite a long history of human presence -- compared to Mars surface, Antarctica and Greenland interior are practically a paradise.

> It represents more. The new flag represents multiple aspects of Mars itself and of humanity’s relationship with Mars.

Did they miss out the part where they explained what it actually represents?

Did the authors of this website ever heard of the male sign (♂) which is already for millennia the symbol for Mars? Or is this supposed to be an upgrade?

The upward pointing "blade" is also a male symbol (neo-pagan)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pagan_symbol_male_phallus...

but honestly i like neither. Mars isn't a bathroom or a boys only club, and it shouldn't have male symbols on its flag. Roman gods be damned.

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