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Our little trouble seem so tiny, when you see something like https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ctk7stYWEAA10jf.jpg:large and ponder on one of our vessel landing on there.

(Don't astronauts feel a very strong version of this when they look back at the blue globe from space?)

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"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'"

-- Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut

I felt something similar while using a VR headset with space simulator. It really changed me.

Can you expand on this experience?

Its really hard to describe. I felt a sense of calm take over me. As if time stopped and life was perfect for a moment. No worries, no problems. Just me and the universe. I do not practice any religion but this was a religious moment. Like meeting your creator. Even thinking about it is calming.

Many astronauts report a similar feeling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect

I would like to experience this. Could you elaborate - what space simulator was it and which VR headset? Thank you!

It was at a conference. The software was part of a suite of an edtech library. I don't remember the company. The headset was a Vive.

The total perspective vortex.

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