Sixty-one years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to make it into space and probably the first to experience what scientists now call the "overview effect." This change occurs when people see the world from far above and notice that it’s a place where
“BORDERS ARE INVISIBLE, WHERE RACIAL, RELIGIOUS AND ECONOMIC STRIFE ARE NOWHERE TO BE SEEN.”; The overview effect makes man’s squabbles with one another seem incredibly petty and presents the planet as it truly is, one interconnected organism; "BORDERS ARE INVISIBLE, WHERE RACIAL, RELIGIOUS
AND ECONOMIC STRIFE ARE NOWHERE TO BE SEEN."