/sci/ - Science & Math

>>1190814
Ha ha ha. Well on that note I need sleep. 4 hours till Nintendo's conference and I have to do some writing on it.

Catch you people later. I hope you enjoy the flag!

I don't care what the hell a professor does in his class.

>>1190739
Well I'm a graphic designer by trade. Don't worry, I feel dirty too. But sometimes I put design to the side for function.

>>1190737
I didn't mean a band procession. I just meant some piece of music. More than likely a collection of pianos and strings since we have absolutely no idea how they perceive sound. But that's a whole different can of worms.

>>1190734
I'm an autodidact. No Uni.

>>1190701
No, you're missing what I mean. I am telling that what primary colors we see. Depending on how your eye evolves, primary colors can be different for you. You can have 4 or 7 or 3. We have 3 as a collective whole, and some women have 4 (yellow).

>>1190714
Mathematics exemplifies music and poetry. And since those things are not viable for a flag medium, you can just play an anthem when you march up there.

>>1190690
Yes sorry. I've been up since 10am yesterday for E3. The Visible light spectrum. As stated in my OP.

>>1190688
oh god dammit I would've designed it in Illustrator if I knew someone was going to go to all that trouble.

>>1190681
Because the distance between red and green is farther than the distance between green and blue.

>>1190664
very cool

>>1190635
I really wasn't talking about that. What I mean is that our bones tend to grow in a ratio to themselves. It's just logical.

>>1190556
I based some of the concepts from this very image.

>>1190523
Guys get the fuck in there and support the flag.

>>1190510
In the thread, we decided the name of the flag (like Union Jack or Old Glory) would be

<span class="math">\mathbf{Stellaterran}[/spoiler]

Star people. We are all starstuff

Okay putting the guilt by association and petty bickering aside, I have posted this

>>1190510

So let's celebrate the unity of humanity for the cause of making Contact!

SHOWCASE FROM >>1189201

Heres a flag for humanity. This went from concept to acceptance within a part of /sci/ so we're sharing it with the rest of you.

Premise: peaceful aliens have travelled from Alpha Centauri or wherever and happened across humanity. We're sending a large group to make contact and our flag is going to represent humanity.

Concept: I thought about it and this is a prototype idea for "about humanity". I'll go over it in detail. Any interstellar race would be able to discern this by studying it.

The existance of the flag tells them we have vision. The shape of the flag--a rectangle-- tells them that we have stereoscopic vision.

The three primary colors of visible light are listed in order, and with a shape that corresponds to their wavelengths. Red is longer and blue is shorter. Combined with black and white, they now know all the colors we need in order to communicate. Even if the aliens can't see "red" as red, they can use a spectrometer to measure the wavelengths of each one and they will fit exactly within 'red', 'green', 'blue'. Their size and black space is proportional to their wavelength separation on a chart.

Next we have a circle. This shows them that we understand the properties of a circle, namely the constant PI. The inscribed pentagram also shows that we understand another constant, the growth of life on our planet: PHI. We know that things grow proportional to themselves. And if they're perceptive and intuitive, this will hint at our knowledge of evolution. After all, we evolved in the shape of the pentagram and with the ratios within it.

Lastly we have a carbon atom in the center of the symbol to show that we are carbon-based. This would take them a little more study than the others, but one good chemist could easily pick it out of the bunch if they remember back before the days of quantum physics.

OKAY GUYS. Looks like this is good. Let's go tell the rest of /sci/ about it.

>>1190433
<3

>>1190403
You should watch the ending part. It's not about religion.

>>1190334
He explains PHI at the end. Phi = 1.6180339887... and is the n-th Fibonacci number divided by the next Fib after 1. Because of this, the longer side of a pentagram is proportional as the two smaller lengths in that exact ratio for a pentagram of infinite length. (Phi is infinitesimal). So for a pentagram of n length, it will be like doing the Fib dividing.

>>1190307
I'd be glad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC86sltzBhQ

>>1190280
OP's flag looks VERY good for inter-earth flag design. But we won't be meeting humans who necessarily place aesthetics above all else.

>>1190260
<span class="math">\mathbf{Stellaterran}[/spoiler] it is.

And we'll use this flag then: >>1190231


All in favor?

>>1190187
I support this.

>>1190231
Actually had this idea when I first started but I couldn't think of how to make it work.

>>1190193
Brilliant.