Astronaut Shares the Profound ‘BIG LIE’ He Realized After Seeing the Earth from Space
This change in perspective could change humanity.
Sixty-one years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to make it into space and probably the first to experience what scientists now call the "overview effect." This change occurs when people see the world from far above and notice that it’s a place where "borders are invisible, where racial, religious and economic strife are nowhere to be seen."
The overview effect makes man’s squabbles with one another seem incredibly petty and presents the planet as it truly is, one interconnected organism.
In a compelling interview with Big Think, astronaut, author and humanitarian Ron Garan explains how if more of us developed this planetary perspective we could fix much of what ails humanity and the planet.
Garan has spent 178 days in space and traveled more than 71 million miles in 2,842 orbits. From high above, he realized that the planet is a lot more fragile than he thought.
When I looked out the window of the International Space Station, I saw the paparazzi-like flashes of lightning storms, I saw dancing curtains of auroras that seemed so close it was as if we could reach out and touch them. And I saw the unbelievable...
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of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness. Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands: the extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna … things that took five billion years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind."
"We’re not going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality," Garan said.
However dire the situation looks from the surface of Earth, the astronaut has hope that we can
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The astronomers used the Cerro Tololo Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope’s Dark Energy Camera to search for asteroids in the inner solar system. Because the sun’s glare makes observations impossible for most of the day, the researchers only had two 10-minute windows of twilight each night to make their observations.
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The asteroid, discovered alongside two other near-Earth asteroids at Chile’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, was described in a study published in The Astronomical Journal on September 29.
For the first time, astronomers have discovered evidence for a giant planet orbiting a tiny, dead white dwarf star. And, surprisingly, the Neptune-sized planet is more than four times the diameter of the Earth-sized star it orbits.
"This star has a planet that we can’t see directly," study author Boris Gänsicke from the University of Warwick said in a press release. "But because the star is so hot, it is evaporating the planet, and we detect the atmosphere it is losing." In fact, the searing star is sending a stream of vaporized material away from the planet at a rate of some 260 million tons per day.
The new discovery is the first proof that a massive planet can survive a star’s transition into a white dwarf. It implies that evaporating planets orbiting dead stars are fairly common in the universe. The discovery could also shed light on the fate of our solar system, as our Sun, like most stars, will eventually evolve into a white dwarf.
An unexpected pairingThe white dwarf in question, dubbed WDJ0914+1914, is located in the constellation Cancer, about 1,500 light-years away. Although the white dwarf is no longer undergoing nuclear fusion like a normal star, its lingering heat means it’s still a blistering 49,500 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s some five times hotter than the Sun.
After sifting through about 7,000 white dwarfs identified by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, researchers discovered the smoldering stellar core. When the team looked at the unique spectra of WDJ0914+1914, they discovered hydrogen chemical fingerprints, which is somewhat unusual. But they also picked out signs of oxygen and sulfur — elements they had never seen in a white dwarf before.
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