what’s the amplification of the Overview Effect when you’ve also gone extraterrestrial?
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In Ender’s Game, when our hero gets his own command, the Earth is there both to greet him, and let him ponder his new responsibilities over.
Read moreRead moreAutonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a neologism for a perceptual phenomenon characterized as a distinct, pleasurable tingling sensation in the head, scalp, back, or peripheral regions of the body in response to visual, auditory, olfactory, and/or cognitive stimuli.
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Many role-playing videos and audio recordings also aim to stimulate ASMR. Examples include descriptive sessions, in a style similar to guided imagery, for experiences such as haircuts, visits to a doctor’s office, and ear-cleaning. While these make-believe situations are acted out by the creator, viewers and listeners report an ASMR effect that relieves insomnia,[2] anxiety or panic attacks.
Scientists discover that thyroid cancer cells become less aggressive in outer space
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To make their discovery, Grimm and colleagues used the Science in Microgravity Box (SIMBOX) experimental facility aboard Shenzhou-8, which was launched on October 31, 2011. Cell feeding was automatically performed in space on day five and automated cell fixation was conducted on day 10. Inflight control was achieved by using a centrifuge in space. On November 17, 2011, Shenzhou-8 landed and the experimental samples were analyzed.
Additional cells were analyzed using a random positioning machine which aims to achieve simulated microgravity conditions on the ground by rotating a sample around two axes operated in a random real direction mode. Both cell types were investigated with respect to their gene expression and secretion profiles, employing modern molecular biological techniques, such as whole genome microarrays and multi-analyte profiling.
Results suggested that the expression of genes indicating a high malignancy in cancer cells may be down-regulated under altered gravitational stimulation.
“We are just at the beginning of a new field of medicine that studies the effects of microgravity on cell and molecular pathology. Space flight affects our bodies, both for good and bad,” said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal.
“We’ve known that microgravity can cause some microorganisms to become more virulent and that prolonged microgravity has negative effects on the human body. Now, we learn that it’s not all bad news: what we learn from cells in space should help us understand and treat malignant tumors on the ground.”
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*** soft link back to pic of Ripley recovering in orbit. /adds Knights Hospitaller in Spaaace to list of front organizations.
Scientists discover that thyroid cancer cells become less aggressive in outer space
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Hospital bed with an #overvieweffect on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Ripley, recovering from an usually long hypersleep (57 years), has a bed in a hospital in space with a view.
(but what about Jonsie? Cat’s just bounce right back from hypersleep?!)
Ultimately, Hadfield says, being in space and staring down at the twinkling “jewel” that is the Earth, one quickly comes to realize how complex and compassionate our planet really is: “I think what everyone would find if they could be [up in space] — if they could see the whole world every 90 minutes and look down on the places where we do things right, and look down where we’re doing stupid, brutal things to each other and the inevitable patience of the world that houses us — I think everybody would be reinforced in their faith, and maybe readdress the real true tenets of what’s good and what gives them strength.”
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4235055 | http://www.npr.org/2013/10/30/241830872/astronaut-chris–hadfield-brings-lessons-from-space-down-to-earth
Behold the healing power of the Upsized #OverviewEffect! In this case a glimpse of a whole solar system. For Eli’s mother who’s been missing him terribly and is super depressed without her reason for being, and has stopped taking her meds because she has HIV donchaknow, but after a bit of Clarkean magix she’s transported to be with her boy via a loaner body, on the other side of the universe, and VOILÀ: from sad in hospital to beatific believer of the gospel of spaaace.
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 