We come in peace • 我们平安而来 • اتينا مسالمين
"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another." — Carl Sagan
Planetary Civilization Flags
Open-source project
As humans, we're facing challenges like climate change, wars, pollution, and economic inequality that we must address to ensure our survival.
We should unify our cultural differences, establish common ground, and envision a clear path into our future.
What is a Planetary civilization?
In 1964, Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev defined three levels of civilizations, based on the order of magnitude of power available to them.
Kardashev scale
The scale has three designated categories:
Type I civilization
also called a planetary civilization can use and store all of the energy which reaches its planet from its parent star.
Type II civilization
also called a stellar civilization can harness the total energy of its planet's parent star.
Type III civilization
also called a galactic civilization can control energy on the scale of its entire host galaxy.
Humans are currently at Type 0 civilization.
"These civilizations can effectively control the entire resources of their planet; they can predict weather patterns and earthquakes very accurately, and even control them using artificially induced greenhouse effects or space-based lasers. A Type 1 Civilization could conceivably halt an ice-age." — Dr. Michio Kaku
Planetary civilization flag
We are creating a visual language that supports the idea of becoming a Planetary civilization.
The symbol is abstract and adaptable, free from cultural bias, and can evolve as we do.
By adopting the symbol, we embrace current values like compassion, love, and truth, aiming for a planetary civilization. This is just a suggestion.
Next stop: Mars?
...or our planets?
Criticism
Having so many flags offers a potential scenario for dividing us once more. Evolving into Stellar civilization would be reasonable as one solar system and not as one of the planets.
Stellar civilization flag
Sun's gravity holds the solar system together, keeping everything - from the biggest planets to the smallest particles of debris - in its orbit.
"Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!" —Yuri Gagarin
History
Some individuals and organizations have promoted designs for a flag representing the planet Earth, though none have been officially recognized as such by any governmental body. Widely recognized flags associated with Earth include the flag of the United Nations.
While working on a design project a question sparked our imagination. What would our home planet's flag look like?
Srđan and I didn't do any research, we just separately drew what we thought was the logical visual representation. We immediately noticed that we had an identical solution. Only this drove us into research.
We found out there were few attempts already put to practice. The logic of our predecessors was the same. Earth as a planet in our solar system. We even found almost exact design being made in 1970 by James W. Cadle (USA).
This proved we were on a right path. Having the same ideas and opinions about the visual representation of our homeland in a different time and place brought us closer also culturally. And from then on, we designed it into a system.
Planetary civilization flag was designed by The Miha Artnak & Srđan Prodanović at Studio Ljudje in January, 2013. Miha continued with the research and designed it into a system (2017).
Where can I get them?
This of course is an open-source project, that's why we put the pdf files online.
Official webpage
Unofficial merch
Disclaimer
The ideas shared under these flags are simply opinions. While trolling, hate speech, misinformation, and manipulation can't break our faith in humanity or the symbol itself. It shows our different cultures and beliefs. Now, we need to come together to build a better future.
