Overview Effect

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Visit the Overview Institute

The Overview Effect -- Planetary

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http://www.overviewthemovie.com/

http://www.overviewthemovie.com/press/

A Cognitive Shift

http://ekostories.com/2013/04/11/planetary-collective-overview/

‘Overview’ and the Overview Effect 25 years on:

http://www.thespaceshow.com/detail.asp?q=1891

The Overview Effect at 25, article in the Space Review:

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2195/1

‘Overview’: The Perspective-Altering Effect of Seeing Earth from Space, Universe Today:

http://www.universetoday.com/98865/overview-the-perspective-altering-effect-of-seeing-earth-from-space/

The Overview Effect, But Does It Float

http://butdoesitfloat.com/The-Overview-Effect

Overview -- the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Magazine:

http://blogs.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/2012/12/the-overview-effect/

The Wonder, Thrill and Meaning of Seeing Earth from Space:

http://www.openculture.com/2012/12/the_wonder_thrill_meaning_of_seeing_earth_from_space_astronauts_reflect_on_the_big_blue_marble.html

Earth360 ~ from the International Space Station

What a space traveler on the International Space Station sees

So Fully Sensual and Beyond the Senses

All Alone in the Night - Settings Suggestion: FULL Screen, 1080p, lights off, volume up, lean back and fly

The View - FULL 1080p, lights off, volume up. Even better, go 'Original' for 2160p - HD 4K

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Earth360, POV on Earth

Virtual time

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Remembering Douglas Trumbull's VFX vision of 'Silent Running'... continuing on...

Trumbull's big screen vision State of the Cinema Art Hypercinema 3D majesty

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Remembering 'Earthrise' - December 1968

Earthrise memories on the 45th anniversary - Earth-home, the historic view of Earth from Apollo

"The earth from here [circling the moon] is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space." — Jim Lovell, live Apollo 8 - 1968

"If somebody had said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the earth from the moon?' I would have said, 'No, no way.' But yet when I first looked back at the earth, standing on the moon, I cried." — Alan Shepard, Astronaut

"As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries we've created to separate and define. And for the first time in your life you feel in your gut the precious unity of the Earth and all the living things it supports." — Russell Schweikart, Apollo 9

"As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate..." — James Irwin, Apollo 15

What a View!

Overview refers to the experience of seeing firsthand the reality of the Earth in space, which is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, hanging in the void, shielded and nourished by a paper-thin atmosphere. From space, the astronauts tell us, national boundaries vanish, the conflicts that divide us become less important and the need to create a planetary society with the united will to protect our "pale blue dot."

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Earthrise tells the remarkable story of the first photographs of Earth from space and the totally unexpected impact of those images. The Apollo “Earthrise” and “Blue Marble” photographs were beamed across the world some forty years ago. They had an astounding effect, Robert Poole explains, and in fact transformed thinking about the Earth and its environment in a way that echoed throughout religion, culture, and science. Gazing upon our whole planet for the first time, we saw ourselves and our place in the universe with new clarity.

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January 19, 2015

Overview Effect, Third Edition, by Frank White

The Space Review

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"Space travel needs a new birth, and if we can tap into the desire to go into space, incredible things can come from it."

— Sir Richard Branson

More than 30 years ago, Frank White coined the term “Overview Effect” to describe the cognitive shift in awareness that results from the experience of viewing Earth from orbit or the moon. He found that, with great consistency, this experience profoundly affects space travelers’ worldviews — their perceptions of themselves and our planet, and our understanding of the future. White found that astronauts know from direct experience what the rest of us know only intellectually: we live on a planet that is like a natural spaceship moving through the universe at a high rate of speed. We are, in fact, the crew of “Spaceship Earth,” as Buckminster Fuller described our world.

In The Overview Effect, Third Edition Frank White expands on his original concept, which has now gained worldwide recognition and exposure. Using interviews with and writings by numerous astronauts and cosmonauts, he describes space exploration and settlement as necessary next steps in the evolution of human civilization and consciousness.

The third edition features new interviews with the following astronauts, space advocates, and New Space entrepreneurs: Ron Garan / Helen P. Sharman / Michael Lopez-Alegria / Sandra H. Magnus / John B. Herrington / Akihiko Hoshide / Nicole Stott / Sir Richard Branson / George Whitesides - Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides

Frank White is a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College. He attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, where he earned a Master of Philosophy degree in politics. He is a leading thinker and advocate on the topic of space exploration and its impact on human thought and society. He first published The Overview Effect in 1987 and has since authored, co-authored, or edited nine other books, including Think About Space and The March of the Millennia (with Isaac Asimov), The SETI Factor, and The New Camelot. He is co-founder of the Overview Institute, created in 2008 to communicate the nature and psychosocial impact of the space experience to the space community and the general public. He is also co-founder of the Earth Rider project and appears in Overview, a short film about the Overview Effect released by Planetary Collective in 2012 that has been viewed on the Internet by more than 6 million people.

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How the Overview Effect is similar to other World View Changes

The mass experience of The Overview Effect of space travel, seeing the reality of the Earth in space, will eventually be seen as a major driver of one of the greatest shifts in world awareness in the Modern World, equivalent or greater than the Copernican Revolution or the discovery of the New World. Whether by direct experience or sophisticated simulation and artistic representation, this experience will forever alter the life we think we are living and world we think we are in.

— David Beaver

StarPort Café

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Our #BlueDot" Whole Earth - #Earth360

"From up here it is surprisingly obvious, our world is one connected system" -- Astro Alexander Gerst"

January 31, 2015 -- "I wish I could bring all of you up to see this! -- Astro Terry Virts"