Scott Solomon
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
Well, yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
I mean, everybody does.
I mean, how could you not?
Including the famed astronaut, Katy Perry.
And William Shatner, did you see when he went to space, he talked about this too?
What was it called?
Overview effect.
Yeah.
So that's the term that's been given to this phenomenon by Frank White, who's a philosopher of space.
He did all these interviews initially with NASA astronauts and cosmonauts as well.
And even up to more recent flights where we have people who are kind of everyday citizens that are going up on these commercial space flights now.
And so he has basically argued that like,
people have this profound shift that happens to them by being in space and looking back at the Earth and, you know, seeing, for example, how thin the atmosphere is.
It just looks so fragile and delicate.
You know, seeing how, you know, the Earth doesn't look like it does on the maps.
There's no borders between nations.
You know, this sense that, like, we're really all
in this together.