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Louis: I drew an ensign that is composed of two Kepler triangles (one green and the other blue). The ensign’s aspect ratio is 1 to 1.272. The solid red circle that represents Mars is centered on the intersection of the flag’s (invisible) diagonals. The circle is 0.618 units in diameter, so its diameter is in golden ratio with the height of the flag. [1 to 0.618 (the reciprocal of Phi) is a golden ratio.]
The tilt axis of Mars has varied from 10 degrees to 60 degrees so the common hypotenuse of the two Kepler triangles, tilted to about about 52 degrees from vertical, can represent the axis of Mars (the tilt axis is currently at about 25 degrees). I added two small red circles to represent Phobos and Deimos. The circle representing Deimos is a little larger and a little farther away.
Would you buy a little flag of that design and attatch it to the antenna of your car?
Louis: In the “Mars Society International” section of this forum I posted a message titled “A Phi-based Flag of Mars”. I described my Mars flag design as including two Kepler triangles. Wikipedia has an article titled "Kepler triangle".
You might consider giving your Mars flag design an aspect ratio of 1 to the square root of Phi (~1.272). Then the triangles in your design would be Kepler triangles. The aspect ratio of your design would be slightly higher than the aspect ratio of the flag of Monaco (see the “List of aspect ratios of national flags” article in Wikipedia).
Some countries have a main flag and an alternative flag (an ensign) that is suitable for attachment to a moving vehicle. The main Mars flag might have an aspect ratio equal to the golden ratio (1 to 1.618) and an alternative flag might have a 1 to 1.272 aspect ratio. The relatively shorter “ensign” would be sitable for attachment to the antenna of an automobile. The shorter length of the ensign would make the ensign less likely to be torn by air resistance as the vehicle moves.
You might consider having the left and right edges of the central red circle on your flag design pass through the two golden section points on the common hypotenuse of the two Kepler triangles. And maybe add a smaller circle on each side of the central “Mars” circle; one small circle to represent Phobos and the other to represent Deimos.
The disk of the Milky Way galaxy is not flat; it’s corrugated. New findings reveal “that the galactic disk is contoured into several concentric ripples”. See “The Corrugated Galaxy—Milky Way May Be Much Larger Than Previously Estimated”. And see “Ripples in the Milky Way”, by Camille M. Carlisle, March 16, 2015.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronom … 316201523/
[Or drop a pebble into a pond and watch as corrugated ripples form.]
I believe that pressure waves form in the solar wind, and that these waves have caused the disk of the Solar System to become corrugated. I also believe that billions of year ago the corrugations caused solid matter to collect into larger and larger clumps and to eventually form planets. The contour of the corrugations appear to be related to Phi (an irrational number). See “Phi and the Solar System”, by Gary Meisner, June 18, 2012.
https://www.goldennumber.net/solar-system/
Phi seems to be woven into the fabric of our galaxy and our solar system. That is why I have designed a Mars flag that is 1 unit high and Phi units long (Phi to 1 is known as the “golden ratio”). My design includes two Kepler triangles, which also have proportions based on the golden ratio. (This Phi-based triangle is named after the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who deduced that Mars follows an eliptical path around the Sun.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler
Please see my Phi-based Flag of Mars at http://docdro.id/ibOvhp9
The Mars Society might adopt a Mars flag that embraces the golden ratio.
Dr. Zubrin wrote, “The NASA leadership itself has embraced fear to justify paralysis.”[1] He then cited NASA’s fretful and timid response to data which indicate that “a crew undertaking a six-month voyage to Mars would receive a cosmic-ray dose about double that received by a space-station crew member over the same period.”
Rather than worrying about cell damage caused by ionizing radiation, astronauts should be instructed to take a daily dose of olive oil that contains naturally high levels of oleocanthal. The oleocanthal can cause a cancer cell’s junk yard (its lysosome) to rupture and to thereby kill the cancer cell. This killing takes about one hour.
1. Robert Zubrin. “A Martian Odyssey: We Can Do It”. National Review, September 29, 2015.
Hello New Martians.
I recently made a few changes to the Wikipedia article titled "Flag of Mars". For example, I added a reference to an article that was published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. That reference article is titled "The great Martian flag wars". The reference provides some interesting history about the two leading versions of the Flag of Mars.