Flag Designs for Earth & The Solar System in 2020 and Beyond
Redittor thefrek has designed a kick-ass series of flags for the Solar System and its planets. But flags, as we all know, change over time. So he’s also created possible revisions for those flags reaching as far as 800 years into the future.
Here you’ll find thefrek’s concept designs for “Earth/Solar flags throughout the future,” but we highly recommend checking out the banners he envisioned for each individual planet, and especially this batch of future-flags from a Martian Revolution, when the Red Planet “declares itself to be the dominant force in the Solar System, and claims all other planets as part of its empire.”
Earth’s flag
2020: Humanity is only present on Earth and the Moon.
2044: Humans have settlements on Earth, the Moon, Mars and its moons, and Ceres.
2087:Two more objects in the Asteroid Belt have been colonized as well as Europa and Venus.
2204: Humans have settled on every large body in the Solar System. Terraforming is well underway on most planets, and interstellar voyages are beginning.
2355: Another star system is incorporated into the Solar Federation.
2412: Another system has been conquered.
2484: The Solar Federation now has too many systems to show them on the flag - Each circle represents one star system, with the Solar System in the centre.
2514: Yet more systems are being settled.
2544: Expansion is occurring at a breakneck pace.
2639: Several different alien races now exist within the Solar Federation, co-existing peacefully with humanity.
2812: 800 years into the future, the Solar Federation is the leading force in the galaxy, with all denizens of our galaxy being given equal representation. Humanity has taken the responsibility to ensure peace and prosperity everywhere in the Milky Way.
Check out more examples of thefrek’s futuristic flag work over on reddit.
Carl Sagan/Cosmos inspired music artist The AETHER releases debut track “Universe Unveiled” taken from forthcoming EP titled “Origins” to be released 12/21/12.
http://theaether.bandcamp.com/track/universe-unveiled
Its a Cosmos night.
(Source: unknownskywalker)
Le Pater, Alphonse Mucha (1899)
“Mucha considered Le Pater his printed masterpiece, and referred to it in the January 5, 1900 issue of The Sun Newspaper (New York) as the thing he had “put [his] soul into”. Printed on December 20, 1899, Le Pater was Mucha’s occult examination of the themes of The Lord’s Prayer and only 510 copies were produced.”
Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: part 1 - The shores of the cosmic ocean
(photo: Hubble Space Telescope ultra deep field view of galaxies)
“We are a way for the universe to know itself… Star stuff contemplating the stars”
~ Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996)
A 49 year era of NASA’s manned space flight program comes to an end this November when the last and final Space Shuttle mission is scheduled to launch before the shuttle’s are retired. Ever since I was a child, I always dreamed of witnessing a shuttle launch. They are profoundly spiritual events for me that give me chills or bring tears to my eyes every time I watch one and this is my last chance to ever see it in real life. I still remember as a child watching the birth of the shuttle program with the first launch of Columbia on television in ‘81. I want to say that I witnessed in person one of humanity’s greatest triumphs and something which was such a definitive part of my generation.
