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William Shatner experienced profound grief in space. It was the overview effect

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Based on his experience, we should require all newly elected politicians to go into space. ;-)

I'm glad NPR took the time to get his thoughts since Bezos was too busy playing with champagne. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GQoHIBDogU

There's a longer video that shows he listened to him until the end.

I think the one you linked is just clickbait.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSNXBvpLb9o

I was rather hoping Bezos would get it not Shatner, but from the looks of the video with the champagne afterwards I guess he didnt.

Perhaps you first need a functioning conscience.

Both Shatner and the interviewer ignore the possibility that more was going on. The higher in elevation we go, the more we are subjected to cosmic rays and other radiation. NASA has done significant studies on the effects of these high energy particles on health and wellbeing, symptoms include: flashes of light, sense of loneliness, depression, etc.

I'm not sure if it's related but I find comfort in feeling small. It's why I'm drawn to islands and remote desert areas, I get a sense of scale that I don't get anywhere else, and it's incredibly soothing. I wonder if this would translate to space.

Me too, sometimes it really helps to realize the things you are worried about are insignificant in this universe.

OT: any recommendations for lesser known sci-fi movies (in space) that are actually good (even today)?

Moon (2009) Sunshine (2007) Europa Report (2013) Life (2017) High Life (2018)

Bigger Names: Arrival (2016) Ad Astra (2019)

I like Claire Dennis. I like Juliette Binoche. High Life was darker than I could handle and I've watched some pretty dark films. I wasn't able to finish it. That said, let me be clear that it is not a horror film. It is a film about the horrors humans can inflict on each other, set in space.

Sunshine is worth watching for the soundtrack alone

Such a good soundtrack. If you aren’t already aware, Rick Smith and Danny Boyle have done some great things elsewhere too. Trance’s soundtrack is excellent, the London 2012 opening ceremony music was wonderfully composed and curated, and it all got me into Underworld who have been around for decades with some great hits.

Lucky the Sunshine soundtrack got released. It got tied up in copyright disputes I think and only came out 2(?) years after the film.

Your experience, of course, may be different, but I personally was not a fan of Ad Astra. It’s one of the few movies I was really excited to see in theaters, and by the end I wished I had walked out early. I just didn’t like any of the characters and the crimes against the laws of physics were too great to suspend my disbelief.

Do kids still know about "Spaceballs" and "Galaxy Quest?"

Silent Running (1972).

Solaris (both of them).

Interstellar (2014)

If you only send to space people whose dream already was to go to space, of course they're going to have a strong reaction when they do. That's like observing that Olympic athletes have strong reactions when they receive the gold medal and calling it "the Olympics effect".

I think you're wrong. Because otherwise articles like these would be either unlikely to exist, or we have much more spacers than it is known.

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

Edit: I meant the wiki, not the linked one.

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