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When astronauts first saw Earth from afar in the Apollo 8 mission in 1968 - the US's second manned mission to the Moon - they described a cognitive shift in awareness after seeing our planet "hanging in the void."
This state of mental clarity, called the "overview effect", occurs when you are flung so far away from Earth that you become totally overwhelmed and awed by the fragility and unity of life on our blue globe. It's the uncanny sense of understanding the "big picture", and of feeling connected yet bigger than the intricate processes bubbling on Earth.
In a Vimeo video by Planetary Collective called Overview, David Beaver, co-founder of the Overview Institute, recounts the sentiments from one of the astronauts on the Apollo mission: "When we originally went to the Moon, our total focus was on the Moon. We weren't thinking about looking back at the Earth. But now that we've done it, that may well have been the most important reason we went."
Source: Science Alert
Does "that" refer to the act of "looking back at the Earth (for the "overview effect")"?
That is, the sentence "But now that we've done it, that may well have been the most important reason we went" means "but now we have completed the mission of landing on the moon, the cognitive shift in awareness - the mental clarity actuated by the overview effects" is probably the most important reason we went to the moon (the moon is the commanding point for humanity to see itself clearly)?
This state of mental clarity, called the "overview effect", occurs when you are flung so far away from Earth that you become totally overwhelmed and awed by the fragility and unity of life on our blue globe. It's the uncanny sense of understanding the "big picture", and of feeling connected yet bigger than the intricate processes bubbling on Earth.
In a Vimeo video by Planetary Collective called Overview, David Beaver, co-founder of the Overview Institute, recounts the sentiments from one of the astronauts on the Apollo mission: "When we originally went to the Moon, our total focus was on the Moon. We weren't thinking about looking back at the Earth. But now that we've done it, that may well have been the most important reason we went."
Source: Science Alert
Does "that" refer to the act of "looking back at the Earth (for the "overview effect")"?
That is, the sentence "But now that we've done it, that may well have been the most important reason we went" means "but now we have completed the mission of landing on the moon, the cognitive shift in awareness - the mental clarity actuated by the overview effects" is probably the most important reason we went to the moon (the moon is the commanding point for humanity to see itself clearly)?
