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The closed economy of the future might similarly be called the 'spaceman' economy, in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything, either for extraction or for pollution, and in which, therefore, man must find his place in a cyclical ecological system
Kenneth Boulding, 1966. Boulding was an economist, educator, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker, systems scientist and interdisciplinary philosopher. He was cofounder of General Systems Theory and founder of numerous ongoing intellectual projects in economics and social science.
The Overview Effect is the motivational kick-in-the-butt we need to save humanity from extinction and journey beyond our home world.
Earth read!
I had the honour to chat with former Astronaut Charles D. Walker during “Space Day”/ Weltraumtag in Graz. He has flown three times on Space Shuttle Missions in 1984 and 1985. http://www.nss.org/about/bios/walker_c.html
Be Holding Earth project was awarded honorable mention of the outstanding artist award 2016! Thomas Drozda, Federal Minister for Arts and Culture, Constitution and Media presented a prize to Tobias Kestel representing the team of BHE during the opening of Vienna Designweek 2016 on September, 29th.
This scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey illustrates the desired effect of the experience that we would like to achieve. <3
Be Holding Earth at IAC 2015
Paper accepted for the 66th International Astronautical Congress in October 02015! We will be presenting the outlines ot the Be Holding Earth Project in 26th IAA (International Academy of Astronautics) Symposium on Space and Society. —> Session: Contemporary Arts Practice and Outer Space: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach. Link to Congress Info Link to Congress Catalog Technical Programme
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Why haven’t We all been in Space yet?
Designing the BHE Pictogram. (Work in Progress).
Photo: Tamás Nyilánszky
EARTH- and MARS TALK with Günther Golob!
I had the chance to meet Günther in Graz(AT), who is one of the 100 remaining candidates for the Mars One Mission. From the initial 202,586 applicants, only 100 hopefuls have been selected to proceed to the next round of the Mars One Astronaut Selection Process. Günther is one step closer to becoming one of the few first humans on Mars.
I found it particularily interesting to learn about the impact that the application process had on Günther so far and how it transformed his view of the world. Seeing the Earth from Mars as a tiny dot on the horizon must be even more transforming than the lunar perspective had on the Moonwalkers of the Apollo Program:
“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 D. Mitchell, Apollo 14
Going to Mars won’t mean abandoning Earth, but might generate an extreme form of the Overview Effect for the Astronauts of Mars One but also for everybody on Earth.
“Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.“ ― Buzz Aldrin, Gemini 12, Apollo 11
LINKS:
Mars One Homepage
Article about Günther and Mars on in derStandard (in german)
DSCOVR • A Satellite that has come a long way brings us new brilliant Whole Earth Images.
First DSCOVR Images released – New brilliant Whole Earth photograph taken by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) from a distance of one million miles (L1 point) with a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope on July 6, 2015. Once the instrument begins regular data acquisition, EPIC will provide a daily series of Earth images allowing for the first time study of daily variations over the entire globe. These images, available 12 to 36 hours after they are acquired, will be posted to a dedicated web page by September 2015. More Info here: http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/
The DSCOVR probe was actually an “invention” of former US vice president Al Gore, initially called “TRIANA”. He imagined a Satellite, that would broadcast an image of the blue marble to earth 24/7. Gore said in 01998 that TRIANA (now DSCOVR) would “awaken a new generation to the environment and educate millions of children around the globe”.
We couldn’t agree more. We believe, a mission like this combined with our Project has the potential to educate not only millions children, but all of humanity, if we succeed in finding means to overcome the cognitive barrier of our brains and enable us to truly foster the planetary reality and everything that is connected to this new perception. (Which is what we are working on)
Read more about the story of Al Gore’s TRIANA Idea and why it was delayed for over sixteen years, here: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/gorecam-99a.html and here: http://www.nature.com/news/al-gore-s-dream-spacecraft-gears-up-for-launch-1.16711
I would also like to cite the thoughts of Neil deGrasse Tyson of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City on this historic moment of space science and Earth Observation:
Dear Facebook Universe,
At the request of the White House, I offer reflections on the attached image of our home, released today, July 20, 2015, forty-six years to the day after the first bootprints were left on the Moon.
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Earth. Not mounted on a stand, with color-coded state and national boundaries, as schoolroom globes are prone to display. Instead, we see our world as only a cosmic perspective can provide: Blue Oceans – Dry Land – White Clouds – Polar Ice. A Sun-lit planet, teeming with life, framed in darkness.
In 1972, when NASA’s Apollo 17 astronauts first captured an entire hemisphere of our planet, we were treated to such a view. The Blue Marble, it was called. The Space Program’s unprecedented images of Earth compelled us all to think deeply about our dependence on nature and the fate of our civilization.
Of course, at the time, we had other distractions. Between 1968 and 1972, the United States would experience some of its most turbulent years in memory, simultaneously enduring a hot war in Southeast Asia, a Cold War with the Soviet Union, the Civil Rights Movement, campus unrest, and assassinations. Yet that’s precisely when we voyaged to the Moon, paused, looked back, and discovered Earth for the first time.
The year 1970 would celebrate the first Earth Day. In that same year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were formed with strong bipartisan support. In 1972, the pesticide DDT was banned and the Clean Water Act was passed. And one year later, the Endangered Species Act would be enacted, the catalytic converter would be introduced, and unleaded automotive emission standards would be set. A stunning admission that we’re all in this together, with a common future on a shared planet.
Regrettably, we still live in a turbulent world. But we now have at our disposal, not simply a photograph of our home to reflect upon, but continual data of our rotating planet, captured 13 times per day, by the robotic Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a specially designed space camera & telescope, launched and positioned a million miles from Earth.
We will now be able to measure and track Sun-induced space weather as well as global climactic trends in ozone levels, aerosols, vegetation, volcanic ash, and Earth reflectivity, all in high resolution; just the kind of data our civilization needs to make informed cultural, political, and scientific decisions that affect our future.
Occasions such as this offer renewed confidence that we may ultimately become responsible shepherds of our own fate, and the fate of that fragile home we call Earth.
Neil deGrasse Tyson American Museum of Natural History, New York City
Contemplation about Nothing and All.
This project received funding by the Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria. Thank you! <3
Full disk, true-color image of Earth taken by Himawari-8, the Japanese weather satellite launched in October.
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We need more of these Whole Earth images.
"Selected as one of the best books of 2008 by Matthew Battles of Barnes & Noble Review Earthrise tells the remarkable story of the first photographs of Earth from space and the totally unexpected impact of those images. The Apollo “Earthrise” and “Blue Marble” photographs were beamed across the world some forty years ago. They had an astounding effect, Robert Poole explains, and in fact transformed thinking about the Earth and its environment in a way that echoed throughout religion, culture, and science. Gazing upon our whole planet for the first time, we saw ourselves and our place in the universe with new clarity. Poole delves into new areas of research and looks at familiar history from fresh perspectives. With intriguing anecdotes and wonderful pictures, he examines afresh the politics of the Apollo missions, the challenges of whole Earth photography, and the story of the behind-the-scenes struggles to get photographs of the Earth put into mission plans. He traces the history of imagined visions of Earth from space and explores what happened when imagination met reality. The photographs of Earth represented a turning point, Poole contends. In their wake, Earth Day was inaugurated, the environmental movement took off, and the first space age ended. People turned their focus back toward Earth, toward the precious and fragile planet we call home. Robert Poole is reader in history, University of Cumbria. He has written and broadcast extensively on history, from witch trials to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and has published in journals from History Today to Past and Present. He lives in Lancaster, England."
This book was recommended to me by Stewart Brand – I agree! :)
Pale Blue Dot
While leaving the Solar System, the camera of NASA’s Voyager 1 was commanded to turn around and take one last photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of astronomer and author Carl Sagan:
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.“ — Carl Sagan
Photo: NASA (Voyager 1 Probe), February 14, 1990. Distance: ~6 billion kilometers.
The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.
Alexei Leonow, First Space Walk on March, 18th, 01965. Association of Space Explorers • http://www.space-explorers.org/
Spacewalk Anniversary 50 Years!
ERDGESPRÄCHE/ EARTHTALKS 2015
Be Holding Earth was presented during a pitch at ”NEONGREEN (AD)VENTURES” Sessions in Vienna’s Hofburg. Thank you for the invitation and the workshop after the pitch, at which part of the audience provided me with important feedback and ideas on the project. Photos: Tamás Nyilánszky.
BHE aims to generate an immersive experience of the view of the Whole Earth in Realtime.
http://erdgespraeche.net/