Post by MCDemuth on Feb 11, 2019 19:48:00 GMT
The View from Space Could Change the World, Virgin Galactic Says
February 11, 2019 12:45am ET
Virgin Galactic wants to make the world a better place by giving a lot more people some much-needed perspective.
Company representatives have voiced a strong belief in the "overview effect." That's the idea that seeing Earth as it truly is, a gorgeous but lonely outpost of life bobbing in a seemingly endless void, fundamentally changes the way people think about their home world.
As many NASA astronauts have noted over the years, this view can both foster a greater concern for the planet's ecological well-being and be a unifying force for humanity, reminding folks that the border lines that divide them are arbitrary constructs.
"The more people that see the Earth from above, the more change you can make on Earth," Virgin Galactic President Mike Moses said Thursday (Feb. 8) at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
"You bring space back home with you, and to be able to give people that perspective in a much broader swath than we ever have before — I think that's the future," Moses added.
Read More Here:
www.space.com/43288-virgin-galactic-space-travel-overview-effect.html
Yeah, Hopefully, many of those Flat Earth Believers will book some flights, and the Flat Earth Theory can be squashed once and for all...
God help us, if the opposite is proven true... LOL!
