1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background
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5 hours ago
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| 1worldflag.com
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hotep99
15 minutes ago
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Will be useful for the inevitable war against the offworld colonies.
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BSDobelix
10 minutes ago
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I just hope that Mars is not adapting the Japanese flag...pretty bad for colorblind soldiers ;)
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adzm
4 hours ago
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Transparency in a flag is new to me. It's surprisingly effective here. Could this be done with just cloth without synthetics by using thinner threads or thread count?
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fiatpandas
2 hours ago
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I also love the transparency and am surprised it hasn’t been used more. Granted, it would be very difficult to achieve with natural materials and also be durable. A flag should be able to withstand an ocean voyage exposed to the elements.
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alm4x
3 hours ago
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The website mentions silk organza at https://1worldflag.com/flag/. That's where my mind went initially, some kind of sheer silk fabric. I don't know how durable it would be in the elements though.
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nextaccountic
8 minutes ago
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That would be the first flag that isn't vegan, which.. doesn't look very cool
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kelseyfrog
3 hours ago
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The microplastics inherent in synthetics is the point.
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layer8
4 minutes ago
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The Land of the Rising Sea.
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et1337
3 hours ago
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Can’t wait for CGP Grey’s review of this flag
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monkeywork
1 hour ago
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is he still making content it feels like its been forever since ive heard anything about him
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boxed
43 minutes ago
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That's what we always say between videos :P
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karol
53 minutes ago
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I would live to see the transparency around the funding and goals of this project.
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patates
1 hour ago
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I like the direction of unity but this will probably be problematic when we eventually start to colonize other planets. I don't want our first settlers to feel discriminated, so please kindly make a new version with more universality - now that I think about it, Universal Pictures also has the world in their logo so maybe this IS universal but we probably we need Jim and Hannah in the loop as well so they can chime in, and last but not least, we need a review from the legal so I CC'd to all, expect some new ideas/requirements.

Also, can we please make it "pop"?

ps. Attaching a version I made, and this took a lot of back and forth with chatgpt because I care about this a lot, so please have a look, I think we are close to something great here!

Looking forward to seeing more from you!

ps2. when I was about to send our manufacturing guy entered the room and he said the transparency could be a problem. Some alternatives without compromising the idea would be great! They must be cheap but elegant! Thank you!!

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reconnecting
53 minutes ago
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> we eventually start to colonize other planets.

Could you please clarify which ones? I'm planning my escape, but it seems that even lightspeed wouldn't be enough to colonize anything suitable.

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boxed
43 minutes ago
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Eh? If you go at light speed you can literally go everywhere in the universe subjectively instantly due to time dilation.
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reconnecting
36 minutes ago
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> If you go at light speed

I will certainly not. And even if I did — within any reachable radius there's nothing actually suitable, everything is 10+ ly away, but maybe I missed something.

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rrgok
3 hours ago
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I don't like the color blue. Can we change it?
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water-data-dude
3 hours ago
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Humanity's working on it, lol
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pixlmint
1 hour ago
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Holy typo… does the one world not have proofreaders?
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nickandbro
2 hours ago
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This will be needed for the galactic civil wars that will soon take place.
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Leptonmaniac
2 hours ago
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So this is effectively the Esperanto of flags?
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jszymborski
2 hours ago
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layer8
8 minutes ago
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He asked about the Esperanto of flags, not about the flags of Esperanto.
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hackernulls
2 hours ago
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Yep, that no one uses too.
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rolymath
2 hours ago
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Judging by the comments here, the 1worldflag should have been a picture of two people arguing.
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grebc
2 hours ago
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Yes! Classic.

We don’t have an outside enemy atm so we squabble amongst ourselves, it’s a pattern as old as humans have gathered into groups.

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simondotau
1 hour ago
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Like all flags, this will come to represent those who choose to fly it, and the causes they fly it for. Which then makes them symbols of the ideas opposed by people who think flag waving is cringe.
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lanyard-textile
4 hours ago
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Love the idea.

But the transparency :( It makes the whole flag low contrast, an undesirable quality in flags.

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seirim
2 hours ago
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Try to add a favicon for the website if you can guys, a blue dot would work well here.
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Skidaddle
1 hour ago
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Very cool, hard to beat the Earthican flag though

https://theinfosphere.org/images/1/17/Earth_Flag.svg

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slekker
1 hour ago
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Did you miss an "/s"? That's horrendous!
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fc417fc802
4 minutes ago
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Not at all - it's clearly intended as a threat. /s
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xgkickt
3 hours ago
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Blue needs to be paler, and the dot smaller ;-)
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dylan604
2 hours ago
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I was disappointed it wasn't a pale blue dot as well.
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ant6n
55 minutes ago
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Yeah, it’s more like a saturated blue giant circle.
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suddenlybananas
53 minutes ago
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Looks like something out of 1997.
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ARandomerDude
2 hours ago
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What if we took Japan’s flag, imagined it printed on paper, but made the dot blue?
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visha1v
41 minutes ago
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the most european thing i’ve seen today
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s20n
3 hours ago
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but that's the wrong shade of blue? It'd have been great if they took the colour from "The blue marble" instead of this Turbo Pascal blue.
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moss_dog
2 hours ago
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What do you mean by "wrong"?

I reckon the actual color doesn't matter as long as it's blue-ish. There are no branding guidelines or anything. Even the size of the circle is unspecified, which IMO is a feature, not a bug. It's accessible :)

EDIT: I'm incorrect, there is a spec. Whelp! I still like my imagined more-flexible version of the flag.

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dheera
1 hour ago
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It is the 16-color VGA version of blue, not the version of blue you'd pick if you had a 24-bit color display.

This website reminds me of the early 90s internet because of the specific shade of blue they picked.

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dylan604
2 hours ago
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Maybe they couldn't find American Flag Blue??? Or is that reserved for swimming pools now?
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NordStreamYacht
2 hours ago
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Esperanto flag.
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glerk
27 minutes ago
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I like this. And furthermore, it is my opinion that all current nation states should be dismantled.
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BSDobelix
14 minutes ago
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>all current nation states should be dismantled.

Fun fact. Just people who live in a shitty country want that, maybe instead of change everyone else, change you own country?

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glerk
4 minutes ago
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I've lived in several different countries. There are nice people everywhere. The country governments are shitty everywhere.
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dostick
7 minutes ago
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I am from so called 1st world, how do you define “shitty country”, are there better ones?
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9dev
5 minutes ago
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German here, I want the same. We are one species inhabiting a single habitable world in a giant dead void. Nationalism is an idiotic game of no value that causes destruction of resources we need, senseless killing in wars over nothing, and ultimately merely a distraction from everything that’s really important.
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halapro
8 minutes ago
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I wish so too, but clearly this is not in any way practical. The EU is the closest thing we got to "fewer borders"
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Auracle
13 minutes ago
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It’s a nice goal, but no thank you. In my opinion, more of the world needs to be all but quarantined.
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altmanaltman
24 minutes ago
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good opinion and one that most agree with

what most don't agree with: what happens next?

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legostormtroopr
24 minutes ago
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And replaced with what?
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BSDobelix
12 minutes ago
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Have you read the utopian book "Starship Troopers" from Heinlein ;)
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glerk
6 minutes ago
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That can be figured out after the dismantling process :)

My personal utopian take: smaller communities/city-states that would naturally coalesce into more fluid confederations. A lot of these communities could also be distributed and non-local.

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