welcome to england, he said. welcome to my world.

[intrikate88]

Its anthem is the wind in her trees
And the waves of her seas.

Welcome to the web home of the Flag of Earth.

The Flag of Earth symbolizes the Earth (the center blue disk), the Sun (the yellow disk on the left), and the Moon (the white disk on the right). The Earth and its most important celestial neighbors - the Sun and Moon - are overlaid on a backdrop of the darkness of space.

The Flag of Earth website is administered by NAAPO - the North American Astrophysical Observatory. NAAPO is a not-for-profit organization formed to run the Big Ear Radio Observatory in Delaware, Ohio, and which now runs the Ohio Argus Array.

We need a flag why, exactly? Are we doing that damn colonization thing again? Are we earthlings avoiding being somebody's indigenous bitch? DAMMIT, GUYS.

I have only one thing to say to the Flag of Earth project:

We stole countries! That's how you build an empire. We stole countries with the cunning use of flags! Sail halfway around the world, stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain." And they're going, "You can't claim us. We live here! There's five hundred million of us." "Do you have a flag?" "We don't need a flag, this is our country you bastard!" -Eddie Izzard.

 

(Thanks to Warren Ellis for the heads-up on this bemusing effort on the part of NAAPO.)

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[firegoddess.livejournal.com]

this amuses me. we are so "civilized" but we still love the idea of colonizations.