> Did the overview effect turn any astronauts in to pacifists? Well, I can't speak to that specifically. I am not aware of any astronauts who declared themsel

> Did the overview effect turn any astronauts in to pacifists? Well, I can't speak to that specifically. I am not aware of any astronauts who declared themselves as pacifists. However, it sure seems like a catalyst towards unity and pacifism when reading the quotes. The fact that so many of the experiences are attributed to ex-military astronauts is also significant to me. I would expect independent civilians to be even more open-minded and verbose about their overview experiences. Some interesting quotes on the subject: > Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut: “You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’” [0] > Neil Armstrong, astronaut & moonwalker: “It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” [0] > Edward Gibson, astronaut & Skylab 4 pilot: “You see how diminutive your life and concerns are compared to other things In the universe … The result is that you enjoy the life that is before you … It allows you to have inner peace.” [0] > Anousheh Ansari, space tourist: “The actual experience exceeds all expectations and is something that’s hard to put to words … It sort of reduces things to a size that you think everything is manageable … All these things that may seem big and impossible … We can do this. Peace on Earth — No problem. It gives people that type of energy … that type of power, and I have experienced that.” [0] > Shuttle/ISS astronaut Ron Garan: “When we look down at the earth from space, we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet. It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile … Anybody else who’s ever gone to space says the same thing because it really is striking and it’s really sobering to see this paper-thin layer and to realize that that little paper-thin layer is all that protects every living thing on Earth from death, basically. From the harshness of space.” [0] > “From space I saw Earth—indescribably beautiful with the scars of national boundaries gone.” ~Muhammad Ahmad Faris, Syrian Astronaut (cited in Hassard & Weisberg, 1999, p. 1) [1] > “If somebody’d said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the earth from the moon?' I would have say [sic], ‘No, no way.’ But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the moon, I cried.” ~Alan Shepard, NASA Astronaut (cited in Nardo, 2014, p. 46) [1] [0] https://www.phactual.com/14-awe-filled-quotes-about-the-overview-effect-from-outer-space/ https://www.phactual.com/14-awe-filled-quotes-about-the-over... [1] https://www.psychologyinaction.org/psychology-in-action-1/2017/01/01/the-overview-effect https://www.psychologyinaction.org/psychology-in-action-1/20...