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- Опубликовано: 20 май 2023
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Lack of color specificity also means you don't need to use the same red for each stripe, same white for each star, or a consistent blue for the field
Do the stripes even need to have a consistent color across it's length? We need a GRADIENT FLAG!!!
@@durnolog6617 hell, you could even make a gradient from the blue square to the red stripes and add another for the white ones so they don't feel lonely
@@durnolog6617 YES!
The possibilities go even greater when you recognize that each individual stripe is not required to be the same shade of red in its entirety. This means you can do a gradient, sure - but you can also basically make a monochrome picture, so long as it's all kept within shades of red with white bands separating the stripes.
@@abdulmasaiev9024 let's go
The loose guidelines may seriously be problematic on the governmental level, but OH BOY is it fun to play around with the design of the US flag while keeping those guidelines.
Truly the greatest representation of american ideals
Ukraine will win the war
@@13ased_American No
Next time, they should add the following:
- 7 red stripes and 6 white stripes
- Blue field is rectangular and at the top left corner of the flag
- All stars in the blue field must be of even size and have the same number of points.
Hmmm, does a fess lozengy count as a horizontal stripe? If so, the flag can get _funky_ with it's divisions lol
I already knew about this because one of my friends got in trouble for bringing a custom flag to school with the stars arranged to say “DICK” lol
Huge Cheney supporter, I'm sure.
@@Tapakapa Massive. He really knew how to show his patriotism
Well, if it had as many stars as there are states, it's oficially legal.
@@ghostel9253 hey
@@Tapakapa He supports a huge pair of Cheneys alright...
The CGP Grey cameo has me screaming and burping
yassssss
Exactlyyyyy
There is a CGP Grey cameo in all his videos wdym
It's not a cameo. It's a rip-off. There's a difference.
@@dannyarcher6370 You missed the cameo then. He was in the corner when he mentioned the possibility of a hexagonal USA flag
America gives its citizens the *freedom* to pick their own colors and proportions
😂🎉 I’m stealing this
This is amazing!
no they don’t.
The vague flag is so un-American, its american
For Hungary, the flag is described in the Basic Law as the following: "The flag of Hungary consists of three, equal-width, horizontal bars, red, white and green in order from the top, where the color red represents strength, the color white represents loyalty, and the color green represents hope."
The proportions are specified in a government decree to be 2:1 for state flags, while civil flags are allowed to follow the older proportion specification of 3:2 as well.
There is also a standard that specifies the colours using Pantone, but not with RGB.
so if the flag looks exactly the same as the hungary flag but the colours don't represent those values, it's not a real hungarian flag.
Pantone sues hungary
@@deloptin545 Of course. If the colours represent the British republican movement, then it is indeed not a Hungarian flag.
@@kazooduck sovereign immunity
2:1 ratio is what won fidesz the election
The most funny version of the flag to me is the one where the stars form the hammer and sickle.
Lol
soviet onion 🧅
Thats just California
Fun fact: the star on the California flag is a reference to Texas, and the star on the Texas flag is a reference to Florida (the bonnie blue flag)
@@csmlyly5736 actually a fun fact thanks
Imagine if the US kept with the rule that increased the amount of stripes from 13 to 15 from Flag Act II. Today's flag would literally have 50 stripes.
From far away, it would just look pink.
@@Xezlec To play a devils advocate...
A flag of peace that has been stained with the blood of the people who fought to protect it, yet still waving.
@@coltondodger*stained with the blood of the collateral damage in wars
@@coltondodger stained with the blood of the millions we slaughtered to take this land
At that point it would be a bar code, truly the capitalist symbol American would like to show off.
When I showed the title and thumbnail to my veteran grandfather he said, "That's distress."
When asked to elaborate, he said, "If you see a ship in the sea, and its flag is upside-down, that means it's in distress."
how can i signal this with an austrian flag?
@@illdeletethismusic sideways?
@@bigmac69iiu71 iirc if a ship has a flag that is hard to tell if its upside down they just tie a knot in it
@@vectorthehop3945 bit late but ok
unpopular opinion: the textile colors look really good on screen, the flag has a sort of dignified look to it
Just make the white lighter
Having seen so many obnoxiously saturated US flags used on the internet, I really like the textile one a lot. It's very easy on the eyes.
Yeah, like it’s been through and done a lot.
You could say it has a kind of....old glory to it.
Wish we could have more of that throughout the internet
exactly.. i really loved it more
This is what I call a 180 after Nepal. Wait, can I make America's flag Nepal?? Shape's up to my choosing, after all.
Could legally Nepalify it, yup.
I wonder if Nepalifying it and then adding the chequered PNG-turned-JPG background back on is legal. Mmhh.
America really has left a lot of options, there are 9 possible shapes that i could think of
@@intrepid.
Yeah, that definitely is the shittiest reply. See ya on the server.
Nice rhyming
And here's an interesting thing related to the flag: Walt Disney was proud to be an American. When you enter Disneyland in California and Magic Kingdom at Disney World in Florida, you are greeted with buildings topped with American flags on Main Street USA. The United States Flag Code establishes advisory rules for display and care of the flag. It states that it is the universal custom to display the flag only from sunrise to sunset on buildings and on stationary flagstaffs in the open. However, when a patriotic effect is desired, the flag may be displayed twenty-four hours a day if properly illuminated during the hours of darkness
But the flags on the buildings of Main Street USA aren't illuminated at night what so ever, so why are they left up all night? Because while they have thirteen stripes, they have only 45 stars. This is because Main Street USA is set at the turn of the 20th century, around 1890 to 1910. And during that time, the US had 45 states (Utah joined as the 45th state in 1896). The only REAL American flag on Main Street USA at both of these parks is at the square by the train station, where they do a flag retreat ceremony with veterans involved. The other Disney World parks in Florida also have a flagpole at the front where the flag is lowered each night.
Your Ideas are intriguing to me and against my better judgement I will subscribe to your newsletter.
Whenever I see a comment or video from a Kim Jong-un I always check the account to see if it the real one. I still don’t know if this one is real yet
As an Arizonan, I am outraged that we are not recognized as a legitimate state by Disney
I don't know if imma regret following you Kim
What about disneyland paris?
Someone who knows what they're doing should make a webtool that randomly creates USAnian flags, with random stripesizes and staralignments
Yes, embrace the goofy!!!! Standards are for wimps!!! And conformists
It's two hours too late into the night for me to do this right now but reply to this in 12 hours or so and I gotchu
@@RyanTosh you profile is a minecraft hash map for chunk loading xd
You say this as if webtool programmers know what they're doing
@@RyanTosh only saw it now, you still up for it?
The flag act being vague is a feature not a bug. Flags originate from heraldric banners, which were blazoned vaguely and only carried a particular design through tradition. "Wiggle room" being given for what can be considered an official flag of the United States allows the nation to represent itself even with poor quality materials or inexact production methods.
vague
Great point! Especially since we started out as a collection of colonies that was heavily reliant on trade with our mother country Great Britain. Pre-Revolution colonists were cash poor since they were not allowed to create their own standard currency to trade with, even only among other colonies.
That is a really good Point, but with modern production this is no longer necessary.
So it was a feature to accommodate for the circumstances, but now that those changed it became a bug.
Quite fascinating actually.
sounds like something a programmer would say
@@ilfedarkfairy after the world ends us Americans will laugh at the rest of the world as of course we’re the only ones able to mass produce accurately legal flags for our nation by hand.
4:39 always love when creators make good use of ad placement lmao
I thought it was gonna switch to a Raid Shadow Legends sponsorship
I learned a few years ago about a similar problem in France. For decades, the government had been matching their blue to the EU blue (for symbolism) until one day Macron decided that flags in the executive branch were going back to an older # darker, shade. So now there's two versions depending on what branch of government you're dealing with.
It's not a problem in the us It's a feature
is there any resistance movement with a flag that deliberately uses neither of those shades?
I like the more subtle color, its a little more dignified and gives it a sense of age
Im with you there
Puts the ‘Old’ in ‘Old Glory’… almost seems to imply a time past…
2:08 CGP GREY?! Oh right Hexagon lol!
HEXAGONS ARE THE BESTAGON
@@FajreroCintilo HA HA!
Chessagon!
@@owenplays3770 hexagon is chessagon
Hexagons are the bestagons
So what your telling me is that the flag bikinis girls wear on July 4th aren't legally recognized? This is an outrage!
No, my friend. He brought up how the shape of the flag doesn’t matter. That means we legally can push that a bikini be the official flag shape in the US 🇺🇸 💪🏻 🧨
@@hotpotato5587 exactly! That's like the sole purpose of the video
I think they might even be illegal, cause flag code says you shouldn't put the flag on clothing.
@@safebox36 the flag code is not a law
@@safebox36 i dunno, what about patches with the us flag? Are velcro patches considered clothing, or only those currently worn, or only those which are stitched to a garment?
Lots of illegal American government people like army and police running around in that case.
Honestly it never really occurred to me that their wasn’t a color standard for the American flag. There were always different versions as a kid but I figured it was just the aesthetic
This would be such a fun prompt for an art or government/social studies/history class!!!!! Design your own American Flag following the legal requirements of the Flag Act!!! You can explore the ambiguity of language, the art of design, etc. etc. Would be a very fun and interesting school project!!!
I am telling my Government teacher for this.
you might even be able to turn it into an aerodynamics exercise.
an efficient sail has a tall aspect ratio (rather short in the direction of airflow to reduce pressure difference and therefore turbulence), an approximation to a quarter ellipsis, and ideally a trailing edge exactly at right angle to flow direction to reduce turbulence.
this means, your flag should be very tall, narrow, and with a mast bent to follow the edge of an ellipsis.
good luck fitting the required elements into that.
@@illdeletethismusic sounds like the kind they used to advertise outside car dealerships and stores, actually 😂😂😂 A pseudo-elliptically-bent pole with a vertically tall but horizontally narrow flag attached along the pole
@@AndromedaCripps yes, except with a sail you"d also have battens to keep the curve in the 3rd dimension
Agreed
I think I'd have to disagree with the color distubutuon because it clearly states it has to be "alternating red and white" meaning it can not be alternating white and red
A contentious point. It doesn't explicitly call for red to go first, only names it before white.
Now, obviously, common sense would demand it, but neither is it common sense to make a flag, that's not somewhat rectangular.
@@Tapakapa "but neither is it common sense to make a flag, that's not somewhat rectangular."
Are you sure about that?
@@mbg8733 yes because. R is before w so it is just logical to list it first without referring to order.
@@ooldmka I was talking about flag shape you dingus
Depends if you're reading it from the top or bottom. Which the flag code does not specify. So you can just say you're reading it from bottom up and be within the law.
My favorite flag is Seychelles! On the Seychelles (🇸🇨) flag, the colors used in the current flag are the official colors of two of the country's major political parties: the United Seychelles Party (the former ruling party under France Albert-René) and the Seychelles Democratic Party. The oblique bands symbolize a dynamic new country moving into the future. Blue depicts the sky and the sea that surrounds the Seychelles, yellow is for the sun which gives light and life, red symbolizes the people and their determination to work for the future in unity and love, the white band represents social justice and harmony, and finally the green depicts the land and natural environment.
But other flags worth mentioning are the Cuban and Puerto Rican flags. The American flag has to do with these flags because the American flag colors inspired the Cuban flag (and the original reason for the Cuban flag having a star was to appeal for statehood), and the Cuban flag in turned inspired the Puerto Rican flag. Both the Cuban and Puerto Rican flags were actually created by revolutionaries in exile in NYC (the Cuban flag was designed in 1849, and the PR flag was designed in 1892)! To honor NYC's role in Cuban independence, the Cuban government gifted the city with an equestrian statue of national hero José Martí which stands in Central Park!
Also interesting to note that the Puerto Rican flag similarly doesn't have an official shade of blue specified. As a result, shades of blue tend to represent different political persuasions (i.e. pro-independence people tend to prefer a very light blue, pro-statehood people a dark "Old Glory blue" that matches the US flag, and a medium blue for the status quo)
I like the flag of Nepal personally. It isn't rectangular and it's shape and proportions are exactly mathematically defined.
to be fair, upon seeing your flag I did instantly think "that's the flag of the United States of America"
You should have mentioned the fact that the U.S. Military has the field on the top right. Since the flag is on the right shoulder it is meant to symbolize the soldier is moving forward and the flag is blowing against the wind. This trend has become very popular, and I see it more and more often as decals on cars/trucks. Also, even Jeep Wagoneer it is displayed like this on the passenger door as part of the Wagoneer badge.
Kinda? It's the same flag as the normal one this is just displayed to represent what a real flag would look like when attached to a moving vehicle. In general the field should face the direction of forward motion which might require it to be on the right.
The military doesn't "have the field on the top-right". It's just a rule in the flag code that if the US flag is printed on the side of a moving vehicle or piece of clothing, the field will be on the side facing the front, as if the person/vehicle was carrying the flag while moving, what it would look like from each side.
@@diney7085 yeah, so they don't look like they're retreating.
And because movement is what makes the flag fly, so having it the other way around would imply the flag is attached backward.
Yeah, we're all saying the same thing. But the first time you see it, it does look wierd until that is explained
the closest thing we have to a standardised library of flags is whatever the current SVG is on wikipedia
As someone who loves vexillology, and did a project involving making the American flag from scratch, this video is amazing!
I personally like the old glory colors on screen, it may be low key but it gives it this historic feel. America has been through a lot of history, good and bad. and a big part as of the 250 years it has been established, so it would naturally make sense that it is worn
Good point! This kind of reflects our history well! In fact, some of my own videos about flags use the darker red and blue colors to represent the US flag!
It’s a very timeless look like the Empire State Building. Reminds me of the sorts of colors you’d associate with Americana in WWII.
I think Tapakapa forgot to mention that the Austrian constitution doesn't specify the shades of color for the Austrian flag...
One could make a video about that ...
@@Tapakapa Can't wait to see it!
Sure they do... the colors of the flag are the same as the colors of the blazon. The colors are gules and argent.
Don't give them any ideas. Given history and national legend, they just might get the idea to regularly cover someone in a white coat with blood to match the colors to changed eating habits and consequent hemoglobin concentration....
@SeekerGoldstone that's still not specific
Personally I've always liked the "old glory red" and "Old glory blue" colors for the American flag even in print or on screens. In fact my computer background is a slideshow of the anglosphere flags redone with those colors. I think it makes it look less tacky.
Hexagon joke was amazing thanks for that
I love how the flag act acts so loosely with the American flag
"Can we have the American flag?"
"We have the American flag at home"
American Flag at home:
Honestly the textile flag colors look awesome
You had me seriously crack up at the wikipedia fighting. 😂 I can vividly envision some beauraucracy nerd acting that way.
As a sometime Wikipedia editor, I’ve seen some messy fights between veteran editors over small details of entry pages
The blue region containing the stars is in the Flag Act described as the "union", which is in vexillology is often also called a "canton", and that is a term specifically referring to a rectangular patch at the upper hoist side. Therefore the blue region with the stars should always be on the upper left corner - although it's not necessarily rectangular nor a quarter the size of the flag, because blazons (heraldic descriptions of flags or coats or arms) usually do not care that much about proportions (since it is meant to match the shape of where it needs to be displayed).
Wait, does that mean if I hold up a piece of conveniently-cut bacon (with the necessary amount of stripes) to the night sky, cut a hole in the bacon such that it shows 13 stars, take a picture, would that picture *technically* be a picture of the US flag?
no because there's 50 states, not 13
@@binguloid aye, fair enough, how about 50 stars
@@ultrio325 that would need either a giant piece of bacon or super tiny holes.
Do it during the day and hold it in front of the sun... then it would be the same star 50 times
How much more American can you get?
Union Flag for UK has a similar colour issue. Royal blue is usually on the Union Flag (Pantone 280). But the Scottish flag, which was always intended to make up the background of the Union Flag, should be Azure (or pantone 300) due to the legend that it came from a vision of a white cross, in the sky, after battle. And some times darker Navy blue is used too.
2:59 Unless you're a swiss. In that case you prefer a quadratic flag.
Squares are rectangles
yas we swiss have a boring squara rectangle, just like the vaticans and monacians. the nepaleans really are the only exception i know of.
... quadratic?
6:21 I’m surprised they didn’t call white “Old Glory White”.
You can’t tell me that “idk just wing it” isn’t the perfect description of American society’s attitudes on most things.
i would love to see people running around with weird versions of the american flag on the fourth of july
Background for why the US's national anthem involves the flag: Nope, it's not about the American Revolution! It's about the War of 1812. Fort McHenry was made ready to defend the city's harbor. When Major George Armistead, the fort's commander, expressed the desire for a very large flag to fly over the fort, General John S. Stricker and Commodore Joshua Barney placed an order for two oversized American flags. The larger of the two flags would be the Great Garrison Flag/Star-Spangled Banner, the largest battle flag ever flown at the time. Armistead specified "a flag so large that the British would have no difficulty seeing it from a distance". But there was a smaller flag too, called the Storm Flag. The Great Garrison Flag ended up having FIFTEEN stripes.
On September 12, 1814, 5,000 British soldiers and a fleet of 19 ships attacked Baltimore. The bombardment turned to Fort McHenry on the morning of September 13, and continuous shelling occurred for 25 hours under heavy rain. When the British ships were unable to pass the fort and penetrate the harbor, the attack was ended. There is conflicting evidence as to which flag, the larger garrison flag or the smaller storm flag, flew over the fort during the battle. Historians suggest that the storm flag flew through the night, and the garrison flag was hoisted in the morning, after the British retreated. Today, the Great Garrison Flag is on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.
And the White House burned burned burned
And we're the ones that did it
It burned burned burned
And the Americans ran and cried 🎵
The American flag is dumped on every piece of merchandise you can think of, if you’re American and you see any combination of red white blue and some stars you’ll know what it means, so I think it’s kind of cool the American flag can be anything you want and fit the palette and mood you’re going for.
Personally I see no better expression of American value of freedom than that!
Nothing represents the US better than Captain Puerto Rico
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boobus video
YEP NOICE!
1.9 , not 1,9
What is the music at the start of the video? I would like to know please lol
oooh, bonus video! Wonder what's in there?
That gag about buying a $400 sample book is top tier
I remember the last time an Austrian wanted to bring order to a chaotic situation. He also loved flags.
And fun old school Boy Scout salutes!
If you have a dark enough navy blue and place the flag field in a specific place....
4:17 ah ok, thanks for pointing it out
6:00 In the US the dollar sign goes before the amount
It can be any shades or permutations conformant to the flag act and still recognizable as American, and I think that's perfect
It is not as if defining flag proportions was unheard of when the US gained independence. The proportions of the danish flag were defined by royal decree in 1748. The danish flag also has very deliberately different versions for various uses. The civilian flag is square, while official flags are split flags, with a triangular section missing at the end. The navy even has its own shade of red, which is significantly darker than other flags.
The place I work has a row of American flags hanging from the ceiling, and apparently one of them got damaged and needed to be replaced or something, because part way down is a single varrient with brighter colors and differently sized/spaced stars.
It has bothered me since I noticed... and now it gets to bother me more.
6:30 this is a beautiful flag. Idc what anyone says, the color work beautifully
I am so inspired, there is so much you can do within those guidelines. Now I want to see a contest for who can make the most ridiculous approved American flag
In Brazil they solved the problem of defining the flags with words annexing a drawing of the flag on the law, this design is not official available online but you can find it in books. The design was not upgraded to include new states (AFAIK) but solves a lot of ambiguities of descriging the flag with words.
Can't tell if US-flagged ship is in distress, or playing the "well the flag is technically accurate" game.
“Montessori quilt” is a great line
1:21 of course, the nice _even_ number... 27
It’s 3 cubed 🤷♂️
Are you trying to paint this as a problem or mistake? Cuz this is just awesome. I like the fact that Glory can be arranged in many different ways.
This is why I love how the Nepalese flag is defined.
And this is the DPRK flag: 🇰🇵. The flag is officially defined by the constitution as "consists of a central red panel, bordered both above and below by a narrow white stripe and a broad blue stripe. The central red panel bears a five-pointed red star within a white circle near the hoist."
Symbolism: The red of the flag symbolizes anti-Japanese sentiment, and is the color of blood shed by the Korean patriots and the invincible might of our people firmly united to support the Republic. The white symbolizes one bloodline, one land, one language, one culture of our monoethnic country, which lived in purity. And blue stands for the gallant visage of our people and symbolizes the spirit of the Korean people fighting for world peace and progress
Ah, the flag of North Korea, ya mean.
cool but how is that related to the ambiguity of the american flag in any way
@@dpterminusreal His account is called Kim Jong Un.
2:08 A wild CGP Grey appeared!
I think having the star sizes correspond to land area would be really cool
Nice pepperonis bro
2:32 this has the vibe of an old coca cola bottle, dunno why.
FREEDOM!
NO REGULATIONS FOR THE FREEDOM LOVING AMERICAN FLAG!
2:23 Star-shaped doesn't even mean it has to have points. For example, a circle, an egg, your hexagon or any other convex shape is star shaped.
As long as you can find a point inside the shape such that you can reach any other point with a straight line, it's star-shaped.
The touch of panning audio depending on where the character is standing is so well done I thought my brain was doing it.
I love vexilology so much man
France defines its flag as following : « L'emblème national est le drapeau tricolore, bleu, blanc, rouge. », which means: "The national emblem is the tricolore flag, blue, white, red."
Nothing else defines it, and the french Marine (ocean army) uses a slightly different kind of blue for its flags…
This means that you can draw two red and blue circles on a white background, it would still be the French flag…
The French naval ensign also has different dimensions of the stripes, it doesn't match the national flag.
🇨🇿🇱🇺🇳🇱
Not really. "The tricolor flag" refers to a specific pattern that came out of the French Revolution.
@@jdotoz Yes, obviously, but the word « tricolore » can also be interpreted as « with three colors »
@@jd-dev The point is that you can't interpret anything in a vacuum.
2:46 "this crime against humanity" *points at the US flag* 😏
The ad timing is amazing plus I legit don't need that cardm
Love a bit of malicious compliance 🤣
0:03 As a Canadian, I 100% agree
Interesting to know. Thanks for the good work!🤩
Honestly? This makes me laugh and brings me immense joy. I've gotten into screenprinting recently. I think it would be pretty fun to make my own design that fits the rules but looks completely wrong.
Another consideration, for the color differences between textile and screens is potentially the differences between CMYK and RGB. The colors don’t always translate right.
I actually kinda like your version of the Flag.
I got a stroke looking at it
🙂
@@Tapakapa BRUH!
How are you not selling this on your shop? This was literally a free kick with no goalkeep and you missed.
THE AD PLACEMENT WAS PERFECT
You know, Hexagons are the bestagons. Why? Because bees. Bees are the best and build only the bestagon, the hexagon. Now, I know what you're thinking. Bees build hexagons because they're hexapods with hexagon eyes. How could they do otherwise? Excellent point. But the humble bumble has an engineering problem to solve. She makes two things: honey and wax. The former to eat, and the latter to contain the former. To make but a little honey, she must visit a lot of flowers. And to make one unit of wax, she needs eight units of honey. Wax is costly for bees in flower terms, and honey is drippy in food terms, so to make a hive that contains the maximum honey while using the minimum wax is royally vital. Thus, a honeycomb conjecture. Which shape works best? To answer, we need to talk tiles. Tiling is covering a surface with a pattern of polygons. There's lots of options because there's lots of polygons. Even the regulars go on and on-agon. Now for bees picking patterns, the more complicated ones obviously use more lines than necessary. That's what complicated means. And thus a honeycomb of that tile would use more wax per honey. So sticking to the simple regulars, there are just three that tile tightly. Triangle, square, and hexagon. Pentagons are broken hexagons that leaves gaps. Same with Septagons. Octagons are alright, but they're no hexagon. Which leaves the tiling trio which tile differently. A square is a square of squares, which is a square and so on. Squares tile tidily by basically cheating, covering an infinite plane with an infinite number of parallel lines. Like, wow, that's what a plane is. Boring! Triangles pull the same trick, dividing themselves into infinite nothing. But not the hexagon! The only regular polygon to tile a plane without resorting to debasing self-division, unlike some squares I could mention. At least triangle is trying to be more geometrically interesting than square, teaming up a bit to... one, two, three, four, five, six. Wait, hexagon! The other shapes can't help it. They just want to be the bestagon. Even some of the irregulars, like rhombus, tile by hexagoning. Same with your triakis tiles, and deltoidal trihexagonals, and your, ah, kisrhombille, and floret pentagonals. Look, they're all just hexagons. Even Cairo tiles (poor pentagons) tile up as best they can do to form a lumpy hexagon. The rest just can't compete with the best. The hexagon, nobly indivisible, is the bestagon. Uhh, where were we? Oh right, honeycomb conjecture. Max honey. Min wax. Three options. Okay, yes, there's the circle. A shape defined by the least perimeter for the most area, but that only works when you need just one. Pack circles and this is the best they can do. Look at all that wasted space! And even if you pack the gaps, you still use more wax. And again the way these circles, arrange themselves... it's almost like... onetwothreefourfivesix hidden hexagon! Bees use the hexagon because no shape is better to create the maximum area for the minimum wall. And this min-max stat of hexagon is one of the many reason they show up everywhere. Including in the aforementioned bee's eyes. Each hexagon is a long tube that leads to the light-catching cells at the bottom. More light equals better vision and hexagons let the most light in using the least amount of wall. So why aren't your eyes hexagons? Au contraire mon ami, they are L'hexagone. Not on the outside, but on the inside. Your light catching cells are at the back of your eye, in a hexagonal grid for the same reason as bees. Max light, min wall. Your window to the world, is but through the hexagon. Does that not make it the bestagon? Okay maybe hexagons as a min-max-agon doesn't catch your fancy. Then how about a little mystery, oui? Let us travel to Saturn. Yes, the rings are attention-grabbing, but leave the equator, travel north and here lies the unexplained. The Great Hexagon of Saturn. Need something for scale? Well, here's the Earth. Oh, here's six Earths. Saturn's hexagon is pretty big. What is it? Well, you might be thinking it's a geological formation. An enormous basalt column like the smaller versions you find on Earth. But no. Saturn is a gas giant. There is no surface or geology to speak of. So the great hexagon is composed of shapeless clouds somehow keeping shape and changing color. It's a magnificent solar system mystery. And, while I'm no space archeologist, if I was looking for an alien-gifted monolith, on the most "look at me" planet, under a hexagon beacon with earth-sized sides, that's where I would start. After all, what aliens would want to make first contact with the nearby monkeys before they became enlightened to pursue the universal truth. Hexagon is the bestagon. From the largest down to the smallest. Say for example, this tiny snowflake I happen to have, that have six sides, as all snowflakes do. Gee, what could cause that to be? Let's zoom down to the atomic realm and see. When water molecules join together to make a flake, the sturdy shape they prefer is the hexagon. As more molecules join, they extend the flake fractally up. The beauty of the snowflake on the monkey scale, is but an extension of the hexagonal perfection on the atomic scale. Okay, yes, you will sometimes find snowflakes with twelve sides, but this happens when two growing snowflakes get stuck together, so it still counts. And the hexagon isn't just for snow, but for all ice 1H, which means basically all ice on earth. Yeah there's a little ice 1C which we don't talk about because it's made of cubes, and cubes are boring. And there's a bit of ice 9. No, don't touch that. But if there is ice in your drink, give thanks to the hexagon for keeping it cool. And it's not just water. Lots of atoms use hexagons because... (take a note) hexagons are the bestagons. Oh, using a pencil? Get ready to have your mind blown about the hexagon here too. The lead. Well, it isn't lead lead, it's carbon. And you know what carbon atoms think is the bestagon? The hexagon. Pencil graphite is a whole bunch of hexagonal carbons, and when they happen to be in a straight sheet, that's graphene. Which happens to be the strongest atomic material in the universe. Some of which is in that pencil. To tear a sheet of graphene apart, you would need a hundred times more force than to do with steel. Hexagon is strong-a-gon. This is because when hexagons come together, they form three-sided joints 120 degrees apart. This, for the least material, is the most mechanically stable arrangement. Pull on one joint, and the other two equally pull back, push in, and the other two are the most able and stable to resist. Now look anew at a tiling of hexagons and you see it is composed of nothing but these max stable joints, each arranged perfectly to help the others be stronger and stabler. This is another reason hexagons show up everywhere. The universe blesses stability in her physics, from those basalt columns, to bubbles which, as soon as they can, ditch their spheres to become as close to the hexagonal perfection as they can. That's so cool. Oh right, yes. So if your pencil lead contains some of the strongest material in the universe how can your write with it? Okay, okay. This is going to get even more exciting. While hexagons are super strong this way, they aren't super strong this way. On a small scale, that means your pencil can break off in layers to leave a mark. But on a big scale, hexagons can be flexable while keeping their strength. Which allows us to create some totally unreal materials. Print out a grid of hexagons in whatever, from aluminum to cardboard, make a little sandwich, and pow! You've got honeycomb paneling. A ridonkulously tear-resistant material that's also super light and flexible. It's used everywhere but particularly in aviation. Rockets need to be strong yet light. Same for aircraft. With wings that really can't tear but also need to bend. And only the magic of the honeycomb panel can do both as well. Give thanks to the hexagon for blessing our flight. And we still haven't yet discussed the most important application of the hexagon. Games! For centuries there has been great debate over boards, squares of hexagons? Spoiler... hexagons win. Square boards are the first thing an unenlightened species would think of. They look sensible and are easy to implement, but they are terrible, ineffective boards that cause spatial suffering. On a square board move horizontal or vertical once space and you've moved one space, but move diagonal and the distance is the square root of two spaces. Gross. Diagonals warp the distance pieces move. Square boards look even and tidy, but it's deceit. Their diagonals corrupting the meaning of space and time, and of course they must, because a square only has four true neighbors. Hexagons, however, have six which is more than four, which is better! And the distance from once space to the next is the same in every direction. One space. Just as it should be. If you're a game based on squares, I'm so sorry. But there is hope. With thought and effort, you can hexagon yourself into a better place. As we all should aspire to do, spreading order and hexagonal enlightenment for, hexagons are the bestagons. And now that you agree, with your eyes will see their six-sided perfection in all things. And you will say to yourself, as part of the order, hexagons are the bestagons.
The J Edgar Hoover Building in Washington DC flies several historical American flags. Though on incredibly odd and obscure variant that flies over the main entrance is the bicentennial flag.
Its distinctive as it has a white-red pattern, has 13 stars and the number 76 proudly displayed. Kind of strange that a flag that isn’t doesn’t meet the requirements of the flag act yet flies on the e FBI’s main office.
I always forget that I subscribed to your channel! ^^
My first video of yours. I subscribed because of the Quib around the 5:30 mark
The hexagon flag was a nice reference
The United States Congress has a long "tradition" of passing vague laws and leaving it up to the the bureaucracy to make sense of things. This predates the government and is a reality of the Constitution itself. The U.S. also has a byzantine bureaucracy that has probably long ago surpassed anything Byzantium ever mustered up. I've worked with Iceland. It was refreshing how easily they were able to get things done. Then again, the U.S. system is fundamentally rooted in a distrust of authority and fears of the consolidation of power, and is sustained by politicians running perpetual re-election campaigns, so I suppose it's just the way we have to expect things will be for the time being.
The same people who spit on the US for taking long to make up its mind are the same people who would be scared if the US made decisions quickly.
US bureaucracy has nothing on India.
"the US system is fundamentally rooted in fears of the consolidation of power" meanwhile the supreme court has 0 elections and infinite term lengths, it's literally a multi person dictatorship in there and those old morons control the entire legal system despite knowing practically nothing about what they're doing
The way you timed the RUclips ads around 4 minutes kills me! Good job
That would be a fun exercise to see how wacky you can make it. Id make the red and white stripes into a tiny vertical portion and make the flag mostly blue - but with a gradient.
Gotta make the red stripes several times thicker than the white ones, arrange the stars in hammer and scythe pattern and shrink the blue area so it turns into a small blue outline around the stars 🤔
Damn. I wanted to write something for my bachelor thesis, but now I feel the urge to create variations of the US flag...
It says "that the union be (twenty) stars, white in a blue field".
They used "union" as a homonym for canton, which would properly fix it in the top hoist corner.
The @CGPGrey reference makes me so happy
So technically people can form svastika with the stars. Put the stars in a blue circle in the middle. And make 1 red stripe extra huge while also placing it in the middle. It will be a very intereting flag and i assume it's kinda close to it's meaning =)
at 4:05, Hey! My kids went to a Montessori school. They believe in free expression! 😄
Loved the hexagon reference!
I like your flag with the different bars and stars.
You should sell the funky US flag you made
Why is the guy at 4:45 wearing an ÖBB pin? Not trying to sneak in secret Austrians again are we?
Always secret Austrians in the video. Guaranteed.
4:44 I love the OBB sign, because I ( as a German ) recognise the austrian train logo.
The song you use to begin with? I Used it for 10 years in a video editing job because my boss really loved it.
I'm driving and listening to your voice and I hear those notes play. Went into deep, deep flashbacks.... God I never thought I'd hear that agaib.