Yeah, I'd say acceptable, and I could get used to it with time. But honestly, it seems to me that every time someone makes a flag for a real-world thing, it almost always suck. Why can't they just hire Michael Okuda, whose work in Star Trek (and NASA) produced really pretty logos and flags?
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/2009/06/image-9a...
https://startreklives.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/emblem.gif
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Still, I'm willing to wield current design because solidarity as a species means more to me than petty design issues :).