What is a sprite in this context? As in the red part?
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Sprites are a lightning phenomenon in the mesosphere of earth. They're red because of nitrogen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)
Proof the universe wants you to be gay
Bro, it's not gay if you're under the Milky way.
And fake
All that. Right there in the night sky. Where kiddies can see it.
Fucking WOKEYS! They've turned SPACE gay!
I bet the designer is a quilter at NASA :)
Anyone have a link to a version large enough for a 4k wallpaper?
I thought the pride flag was a rainbow top to bottom?
That's an older version of the pride flag. There have been a few designs. The rainbow top to bottom one is still very popular. This website describes some of the different flags.
I read that the progress pride flag is copyrighted and some people (or a single person) may be profiting from it.
Several sources seemed coherent with this. That's why I try to keep away from it. And also it seems be mostly used in USA anyway, I haven't seen it much around Europe.
The pride flag was envisioned and flown for the first time in San Francisco. For better or worse, most of global queer culture is us centric.
Most of the flags are also copyrighted or copylefted, to some degree or another. It's a jumbled mess. But in general no one is profiting unless you are literally buying a physical flag, as all of them fall into fair use or can be freely licensed for use in commercial products.
In fact the creator of the lesbian flag is routinely begging to avoid homelessness
You need to escape the closing bracket.
You are correct but not with a backslash but %29.
Made before Trump took office, right?
Means nothing coming from NASA, while they're engaging in Lavender Scare 2.0 at the behest of their Paperclipped masters.
this has been my wallpaper for I think a little over a year
One of the blues looks green