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Because it's not in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect > The overview effect is a cognit

Because it's not in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect > The overview effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from outer space

wly_cdgr 5y ago
Given the visceral intensity of this effect, it seems like the best hope for world peace or at least the continued survival of the human race is to send as many people into space as possible as soon as possible, starting with world leaders
- 09bjb 5y ago
  Or, you know, legalize the hundreds of psychedelic plants that grow like weeds all over the world that have the same effect at an imperceptibly small fraction of the economic and environmental cost... Anecdote featuring both: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/08/stewart-brand-talks-about-the.html https://boingboing.net/2019/04/08/stewart-brand-talks-about-... (Stewart Brand founded the Long Now Foundation)
  - wly_cdgr 5y ago
    Sure, why not both
  - motoboi 5y ago
    Given that Stewart Brand is not himself an astronaut I suppose he has zero experience with overview effect and as such, cannot really vouch for the hypothesis that overview effect is similar to psychedelic experiences.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
  Along with the telephone sanitizers.
- poetaster 5y ago
  And leave them up there.
hateful 5y ago
I blew my daughters mind a number of years ago after watching Horton Hears a Who - we're on earth, which is a tiny ball of dust in space - WE ARE THE WHOS.
marcodiego 5y ago
I wonder if the Overview Effect influenced Shuttleworth to create Ubuntu.
Karellen 5y ago
I have to wonder, given that astronauts in the past have talked about getting the Overview Effect from seeing all of the Earth pass beneath then, and that they'll have had hours to take this in - do people going 100km up over a single spot for 10 minutes really experience it? Or have they just heard that the Overview Effect is a thing, and are projecting whatever it is they do feel while they're up there, onto it?
derbOac 5y ago
What's maybe most fascinating to me about the overview effect is that these sort of influential perspective shifts probably aren't unique to space per se -- it seems interesting and potentially important to understand when they happen and why. what sort of experience causes someone to have a radical change of perspective?

wly_cdgr 5y ago

Given the visceral intensity of this effect, it seems like the best hope for world peace or at least the continued survival of the human race is to send as many people into space as possible as soon as possible, starting with world leaders

09bjb 5y ago
Or, you know, legalize the hundreds of psychedelic plants that grow like weeds all over the world that have the same effect at an imperceptibly small fraction of the economic and environmental cost... Anecdote featuring both: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/08/stewart-brand-talks-about-the.html https://boingboing.net/2019/04/08/stewart-brand-talks-about-... (Stewart Brand founded the Long Now Foundation)
- wly_cdgr 5y ago
  Sure, why not both
- motoboi 5y ago
  Given that Stewart Brand is not himself an astronaut I suppose he has zero experience with overview effect and as such, cannot really vouch for the hypothesis that overview effect is similar to psychedelic experiences.
kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
Along with the telephone sanitizers.
poetaster 5y ago
And leave them up there.

hateful 5y ago

I blew my daughters mind a number of years ago after watching Horton Hears a Who - we're on earth, which is a tiny ball of dust in space - WE ARE THE WHOS.

marcodiego 5y ago

I wonder if the Overview Effect influenced Shuttleworth to create Ubuntu.

Karellen 5y ago

I have to wonder, given that astronauts in the past have talked about getting the Overview Effect from seeing all of the Earth pass beneath then, and that they'll have had hours to take this in - do people going 100km up over a single spot for 10 minutes really experience it? Or have they just heard that the Overview Effect is a thing, and are projecting whatever it is they do feel while they're up there, onto it?

derbOac 5y ago

What's maybe most fascinating to me about the overview effect is that these sort of influential perspective shifts probably aren't unique to space per se -- it seems interesting and potentially important to understand when they happen and why. what sort of experience causes someone to have a radical change of perspective?