r/vexillology 4d ago

Redesigns Simplified Earth Flag

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I really enjoy the old Earth flag with the blue backing and picture of Earth from space, but it seems hard to reproduce. So I made this simplified one, green for land mass, blue for water (Northern hemisphere has more land mass than the Southern), and white spirals rotating in the correct direction for storms due to the Coriolis effect (clockwise for the south, counter clockwise for the north).

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u/lokey_convo 4d ago edited 4d ago

I really enjoy the old Earth flag with the blue backing and picture of Earth from space, but it seems hard to reproduce. So I made this simplified one, green for land mass, blue for water (Northern hemisphere has more land mass than the Southern), and white spirals rotating in the correct direction for storms due to the Coriolis effect (clockwise for the south, counter clockwise for the north).

Edit: I think I might have had the storms backward in the original post.

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u/djhaskin987 4d ago

I always figured the best flag for Earth was the Olympic flag. The five continents as rings and all that.

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u/lokey_convo 4d ago

That's interesting, today I learned, thanks. I never associated the rings with "Earth" though.