• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      This one actually does make sense. He actually knows what the fuck is going on. He’s not just a stooge trying to cozy up to Trump.

      He has experience with NASA, space contractors, and has been in space performing research for NASA. The Overview Effect shouldn’t be discounted.

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          The overview effect is a cognitive shift reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space. Researchers have characterized the effect as “a state of awe with self-transcendent qualities, precipitated by a particularly striking visual stimulus”. The most prominent common aspects of personally experiencing the Earth from space are appreciation and perception of beauty, unexpected and even overwhelming emotion, and an increased sense of connection to other people and the Earth as a whole. The effect can cause changes in the observer’s self concept and value system, and can be transformative.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect

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    I hope ESA takes the opportunity and catches up to NASA. They only need something like 60 years of US idiocracy. /s

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      It won’t take more than a decade or so for the majority of US academics to relocate to the EU, as long as they don’t also succumb to the broke mind virus of conservative narcissism-masquerading-as-a-political-ideology.