They let New Zealand and Hawaii design the view of earth for the official flag.

(But also I look at this a lot and think about my ambition to sail across it. Radar, satellite phone, all the tech or not... that is a lot of big angry water.)

(But also... can you really claim to know the earth if you don't know anything about all of this?)

Have you considered:
all of that water
is one big living object?
@futurebird or the whole planet? The Galaxy? The universe???