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The Cosmic Perspective & The BIG Question

Science & Spirituality Merge to Answer the Question: Is There Life Out There?

[1] Hayden Planetarium (4/2/2007) Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Cosmic Perspective

[2] BBC - Vatican Observatory Where Priests Are Also Astrophysicists

[3] HuffPost - Will ET Be Here Soon? NASA Brings Scientists, Theologians Together To Prepare

Perspectives Shift Perception

[4] Wikipedia - Perception - Visual perception is automatic, but our spotlight of attention can see the same subject differently, depending on actively or passively shifting perception from one "view" to another. In the case of the Necker Cube, two individuals can see the same cube differently, and they are both correct. Perception creates and maintains beliefs and beliefs influence perception. Changing perception toward the Cosmic Perspective depends on the right information at the right time.

[5] Wikipedia - Necker Cube

[6] Wikipedia - Pareidolia - Objects may not appear as they seem

[7] Wikipedia - Confirmation Bias (works both ways)

[8] Wikipedia - The Overview Effect

Quantum Physics Perspective

[9] Washington Post - Quantum Entanglement - Science's 'spookiest' phenomenon achieved in space

[10] noosphere.princeton.edu - The Global Consciousness Project

[11] princeton.edu - Princeton Experimental Anomalies Research - PEAR Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Scientific Study of Consciousness-Related Physical Phenomena

[12] The Atlantic - Can Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness?

[13] BBC - The strange link between the human mind and quantum physics

[14] NBC News - Is the Universe Conscious?

[15] Wikipedia - Quantum Mind

[16] YouTube - Quantum Physics and Consciousness - Michio Kaku - "Cosmic Consciousness"

[17] nih.gov - Carl Gustav Jung, Quantum Physics and the Spiritual Mind: A Mystical Vision of the Twenty-First Century

Psychosocial Perspective

[18] smithsonianmag.com - Humans have searched for extraterrestrial life for more than a century. What will we do when we find it life out there in the universe?

[19] Newsweek (2015) - Most People Believe Intelligent Aliens Exist

[20] yougov.co.uk (2015) - Majorities across Britain, Germany and the USA believe that extra-terrestrial life exists

[21] sciencedirect.com - Consciousness and Cognition Volume 40 - Mindfulness meditation and consciousness: An integrative neuroscientific perspective

[22] harvard.edu - “Our brains need a coherence of firing to organize perception and analysis of data from the world around us"

[23] heartmath.org - Heart/Global Interconnectedness - Heart-brain coherence

Astrobiological Perspective

[24] NASA - Atrobiology - Are We Alone?

[25] NASA - Follow the water

[26] NASA - Finding Life Beyond Earth is Within Reach

[27] LA Times (2015) - NASA announces we'll find extraterrestrial life in the next 10-20 years

[28] New York Times - Yes There Have Been Aliens - Drake Equation - Updated with Kepler data - (Does not include moons)

Ocean Worlds

[29] NASA - The Solar System and Beyond is Awash in Water - April 7, 2015

[30] JPL/NASA - Infographic - Includes 10 bodies in our solar system that contain vast quantities of liquid water at or below the surface

[31] ScienceAlert - These Ocean Worlds Reveal Just How Little Water We Have Here on Earth

[32] NASA - Does the sun have any water? (Yes)

[33] suspicious0bservers.org - Starwater Theory

Ceres

[34] JPL/NASA - Ceres by Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

[35] JPL/NASA - Water Ice Abundance - Vesta & Ceres

[36] JPL/NASA - Dawn - Infrared images - (brightest spots designated Area 5)

[37] JPL/NASA - 6/29/2015 - Occator Crater in the dark (?)

[38] mysteriousuniverse.org - After Odd (6/30/2015) Dawn Shutdown, NASA Has New Take on Ceres Lights

[39] JPL/NASA - 3D view - Occator Crater

[40] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater - Topographic map

[41] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater bright spots

[42] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater bright spots in color and other images

[43] National Geographic - The Dwarf Planet Previosuly Known as an Ocean World

[44] JPL/NASA - Flight Over Ceres (color animation)

[45] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater and carbonates

[46] NASA - Age of Occator Crater bright spots

[47] JPL/NASA - Center of Occator Crater (enhanced color)

[48] JPL/NASA - Flight Over Occator Crater

[49] Scientific American - Possible subsurface ocean

[50] JPL/NASA - Haulani Crater - Enhanced color

[51] JPL/NASA - Haulani Crater - Topographic map

[52] JPL/NASA - Haulani Crater - Infrared - Full resolution

[53] Space.com - Interior layers rendering

[54] EOS.org - Geologically active

[55] JPL/NASA - Ahuna Mons - Side view

[56] phys.org - Ahuna Mons - 3-D Topographic animation

[57] Nature - Ahuna Mons - 3-D Topographic images

[58] phys.org - Ceres: The tiny world where volcanoes erupt ice - Ahuna Mons - color

[59] JPL/NASA - Oxo Crater

[60] JPL/NASA - Oxo Crater - Side view

[61] JPL/NASA - Ceres color map

[62] JPL/NASA - Ceres - color

[63] JPL/NASA - Ceres - Enhanced color view

[64] JPL/NASA - Organic molecules - Ernutet Crater - color

[65] Space.com - Organic molecules - Ernutet Crater - color

[66] JPL/NASA - Dawn Journal - Three-year retrospective

[67] JPL/NASA - Complex Relationships in the Occator-Kirnis Region

Jupiter

[68] JPL/NASA - Juno - Jupiter North Pole

[69] JPL/NASA - Jupiter Northen Lights Mystery

[70] JPL/NASA - Juno - Jupiter South Pole

[71] JPL/NASA - South Pole

[72] JPL/NASA - South Pole

[73] JPL/NASA - South Pole Composite

[74] JPL/NASA - Infrared

[75] JPL/NASA - Io color and heat

[76] JPL/NASA - Io closeup

[77] NASA - Io blue plume

[78] JPL/NASA - Io Pele Plume

[79] JPL/NASA - Io hi res plume

[80] JPL/NASA - Io plumes

[81] JPL/NASA - Io Southern Hemisphere

[82] JPL/NASA - Io South Pole

[83] JPL/NASA - Europa color

[84] JPL/NASA - Hubble Sees Recurring Plume Erupting From Europa

[85] JPL/NASA - Europa - Closeup color

[86] JPL/NASA - Europa Clay Prints

[87] JPL/NASA - Europa Cracks and Ridges

[88] JPL/NASA - Ganymede

[89] JPL/NASA - Ganymede

[90] JPL/NASA - Callisto

[91] Juno Mission - 63 Moons of Jupiter - Animation

Saturn

[92] JPL/NASA - Cassini - Last full disk images of Saturn from Cassini - Color

[93] JPL/NASA - Cassini - Saturn - Color - Earth and moon (lower right)

[94] JPL/NASA - Rings - Mostly water ice - color

[95] JPL/NASA - Pan

[96] JPL/NASA - Saturn's F-ring (not caused by Pan)

[97] JPL/NASA - Pandora

[98] JPL/NASA - Atlas, Daphnis, and Pan

[99] JPL/NASA - Epimetheus

[100] JPL/NASA - Moons - Color maps

[101] JPL/NASA - Saturn's North Pole - Animation

[102] JPL/NASA - Saturn's North Pole

[103] JPL/NASA - Enceladus - Animation

[104] JPL/NASA - Enceladus south polar plumes

[105] JPL/NASA - Enceladus electrical connection with Saturn

[106] ESA - Enceladus South Pole heat

[107] JPL/NASA - Enceladus color map

[108] JPL/NASA - Enceladus South Pole closeup

[109] JPL/NASA - Enceladus closeup

[110] JPL/NASA - Enceladus orbital squeeze (featuring Saturn)

[111] JPL/NASA - Enceladus subsurface rendering

[112] JPL/NASA - Enceladus plumes closeup

[113] JPL/NASA - Cassini's last Eneceledus plume observation (animation)

[114] Scientific American - Excitement builds for the possibility of life on Enceladus

[115] JPL/NASA - Mimas' Mountain

[116] JPL/NASA - Mimas and Tethys infrared

[117] JPL/NASA - Tethys color map

[118] JPL/NASA - Tethys red stripes

[119] JPL/NASA - Dione color map

[120] JPL/NASA - Dione - A Moon's Contrasts

[121] JPL/NASA - Chasms on Dione

[122] JPL/NASA - Dione closeup

[123] JPL/NASA - Dione more closeup

[124] JPL/NASA - Rhea - Icy Cratered Surface

[125] JPL/NASA - Rhea - Multiple Impact Craters

[126] BBC - Cassini's last Titan flyby - Color includes upper atmosphere

[127] ESA - Graphic of final trajectory past Titan

[128] JPL/NASA - Titan - near-infrared wavelengths

[129] JPL/NASA - Titan organic compounds

[130] JPL/NASA - Titan summer clouds

[131] JPL/NASA - Titan atmosphere colors

[132] JPL/NASA - Titan's South Polar Vortex - Color

[133] NASA - Hyperion - Overview

[134] JPL/NASA - Hyperion - Extreme Color

[135] NASA - Hyperion's Kaleidescope of Colors

[136] NASA - Farewell to Hyperion

[137] NASA - Iapetus - Overview - Color

[138] JPL/NASA - Iapetus color map

[139] JPL/NASA - Iapetus closeup

[140] JPL/NASA - Cassini: The Grand Finale - Moons - "Habitability Outside the Habitability Zone" - Color

Uranus

[141] JPL/NASA - Hubble Space Telescope (HST) - Uranus

[142] JPL/NASA - Uranus Moons

[143] JPL/NASA - Miranda

[144] JPL/NASA - Miranda closeup

[145] JPL/NASA - Miranda more closeup

[146] JPL/NASA - Umbriel

[147] JPL/NASA - Titania

Neptune

[148] JPL/NASA - Voyager 2 - Neptune

[149] JPL/NASA - Voyager 2 - Neptune - True Color of Clouds

[150] JPL/NASA - Triton color

[151] JPL/NASA - Triton color map

[152] JPL/NASA - Triton color video

[153] JPL/NASA - Triton closeup

[154] JPL/NASA - Triton cantaloupe terrain

[155] JPL/NASA - Triton volcanic plain

Pluto

[156] NASA - New Horizons Update: Methane Detected; New Images of Pluto and Charon; Sunrise/Sunset Observations

[157] NASA - Pluto the other red planet

[158] NASA - Pluto's orientation with the equator

[159] JPL/NASA - Pluto and Charon enhanced color

[160] NASA - Pluto's size

[161] NASA - Views of Pluto through the years

[162] NASA - Frozen shoreline closeup

[163] JPL/NASA - Pluto color

[164] JPL/NASA - Pluto moons

[165] NASA - Icy plains closeup

[166] JHUAPL - Pluto badlands closeup

[167] JPL/NASA - Pluto cryovolcano (Wright Mons)

[168] NASA - APOD - 'snakeskin' terrain - color

[169] Space.com - Pluto water

[170] NASA - Pluto haze layers

[171] NASA - Pluto Wright Mons - color

[172] NASA - Icy spider feature - color

[173] NASA - Floating Hills on Sputnik Planum

[174] JPL/NASA - Pluto North Pole - Color

[175] NASA - Pluto dark side and atmosphere

[176] JPL/NASA - Pluto blue sky

[177] Brown U. - Futurity.org - Possible ocean

[178] The Guardian - Possible ocean

[179] New York Times - Possible ocean

Panspermia Theory

[180] Panspermia Theory Overview - Includes Lithospheric/Ballistic and Directed as well as Extremophiles

Asteroids and Comets / Meteors and Meteorites

[181] National Geographic - Stardust mission - comet tail dust may be extrasolar

[182] CBS News - Chelyabinsk meteor - 2/15/2013

[183] Time - (Chelyabinsk) Meteorite pulled from Russian lake is one of the world's biggest - October 2013

[184] HuffPost - Lee Speigel - Extraterrestrial Life Exists, Scientist Chandra Wickramasinghe Claims

[185] NASA - 3000 Comets for SOHO - Time-lapse animation - Kreutz Comets (in red) are the fastest objects in the solar system, traveling 0.2 light speed before they disappear into the sun

[186] Princeton - Quasicrystal confirmed in meteorite

[187] HuffPost - Lee Speigel - UK Scientists: Aliens May Have Sent Space Seeds To Create Life On Earth

[188] JPL/NASA - Asteroid Ida and satellite Dactyl - Color

[189] JPL/NASA - Elongated asteroid

[190] JPL/NASA - Elongated asteroid with different angle

[191] brucegary.net - Comet ISON - Bruce Gary (retired professional astronomer)

[192] wp.com - Comet ISON orbital diagram

[193] NBC News - Comet ISON - Before perihelion

[194] CNN - Comet ISON - Before perihelion videos

[195] earthsky.org - SDO coverage planned at perihelion

[196] NASA - Comet ISON - After perihelion - One week after perihelion, there was a formal meeting at JHU, but the afternoon portion, discussing dust and gas data both before and after perihelion, was not broadcast. The SDO broadcast at perihelion, which failed to resolve any discernible aspects of the comet, was not discussed.

[197] YouTube - Suspicious0bservers - SDO signal loop prevented NASA scientists from seeing comet ISON at perihelion

[198] PBS - Comet ISON - Perihelion videos

[199] NASA - Anomalies around the stereo spacecraft 5/29/2016

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko / Rosetta Mission

[200] ESA - Rosetta blog/catalogue

[201] NASA - Atmosphere

[202] ESA - Philae close up

[203] phys.org - Exposed water ice

[204] LA Times - Oxygen found

[205] The Guardian - Oxygen found

[206] NASA - Astronomy Picture of the Day - Color

[207] gigapan.com - High resolution closeups

[208] sciencemag.org - Pre-biotic chemicals

Sun

[209] Space Weather News - 24hr. video loops from Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system (GOES), speed and density graphs, predictive graphs

[210] NASA - APOD - Coronal Crown During 8/21/17 Eclipse

[211] NASA - Coronal Crown

[212] NASA - ISS During 8/21/17 Eclipse

[213] Wikipedia - Sun as Nuclear Fusion Reaction

[214] NASA - SDO - The Sun's Rainbow of Wavelengths

[215] NASA - Introduction to the Electromagnetic Spectrum

Electric Universe Theory - Pros and Cons

[216] Electric Universe Theory

[217] NASA - Magnetic Sun

[218] NASA - Earth's Magnetic Field

[219] ESA - Hershel - Oort Cloud - Note toroidal shape

[220] astrosurf.com - Oort Cloud Illustration

[221] torusgallery.com - Torus Illustrations

[222] HeartMath - The Heart's Electromagnetic Field

[223] YouTube - Thrive: The Movement - Sacred Geometry and Implications for the Cosmic Perspective and an Energy Revolution

[224] whatsupwiththat.com - How plasma connects the sun to the climate

[225] NASA - Hidden Portals in Earth's Electromagnetic Field

[226] rationalwiki.org - Electric Universe Theory as Pseudo-science

[227] physics.stackexchange.com - How to Debunk the Electric Universe

Inner Terrestrial Planets

[228] Space.com - Terrestrial Planets

[229] psu.edu - The Inner Rocky Planets

Mercury

[230] NASA (January 22, 2008) MESSENGER - Mercury - Color

[231] - seeker.com - Mercury's Water Ice Deposits Have a Mysterious Origin

[232] CBS News - NASA captures first images of frozen water on Mercury

[233] spaceref.com - NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington - NASA MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Young Crater With Bright Rays

[234] NASA - Mercury water ice

Venus

[235] NASA - Venus may have been habitable

Earth

[236] NASA - Epic Earth Image

[237] NASA - Earth's Magnetic Field - (repeat)

[238] USRA.edu - Moon closeup

[239] NASA - Captured asteroid

[240] JPL/NASA - Asteroid flyby animation

[241] National Geographic - Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents

[242] Space.com - (8/20/2014) Sea plankton found on ISS, Russians claim

[243] livescience.com - Life in Antarctica Lake under Ice

[244] Washington Post - These animals can survive until the end of the Earth, astrophysicists say

[245] BBC - Species May Thrive in Antarctica Lakes

Mars

[246] NASA (1999) - Mars Rotate (true color) - Animation

[247] NASA (2011) - Mars Roll - Includes South and North Poles - Animation

[248] smithsonianmag.com - 2011 - Mars Day

[249] UAHiRise - Catalogue of color images

[250] ESA - Blue sediments build up in craters over time - Colour

[251] NASA - MAVEN spacecraft returns first Mars observations

[252] phys.org - ISRO - Mars Orbiter Mission - First colour image

[253] ISRO - Full disk image from colour camera

[254] ISRO - Images from colour camera

[255] spaceref.com - ISRO - Images of Phobos and Martian atmosphere

[256] ESA - Phobos

[257] NASA - MRO - Phobos - Color

[258] wordpress.com - Phobos 2 Mystery

[259] NASA - Deimos - Color

[260] JPL/NASA - Mount Sharp Comes in Sharply - note baby blue sky

[261] ESA - Past habitability

[262] NASA - Comet Siding Spring Mars flyby

[263] JPL/NASA - Morning Clouds Atop Martian Mountain

[264] UAHiRise - Frosty Gullies on the Northern Plains

[265] NASA - Meteorite impact reveals subsurface ice

[266] JPL/NASA - Odessey - Investigating Mars: Siton Undae

[267] UAHirise - Dark streaks down crater wall

[268] UAHiRise - Dark streaks down crater wall

[269] JPL/NASA - Dark streaks down hillside

[270] UAHirise - Gullies and Flow Features on Crater Wall

[271] UAHirise - Cracks in a Crater's Ice

[272] UAHirise - Icy Crater Monitoring - color

[273] UAHirise - Icy Crater Monitoring - color

[274] JPL/NASA - North polar cap

[275] NASA - North polar layers of Mars

[276] UAHirise - North Polar Intracrater Dunes

[277] researchgate.net - Crater near north polar cap with water ice

[278] NASA - South polar cap

[279] NASA - South polar texture

[280] NASA - Astronomy Picture of the Day - South polar texture

[281] JPL/NASA - South polar terrain

[282] UAHirise - South Polar Cryptic Terrain

[283] UAHirise - Retreating Cap Edge - color

[284] UAHirise - Retreating Cap Edge

[285] NASA - South polar ice deep and wide

[286] phys.org - South Polar cap - color

[287] marsanomalyresearch.com - South polar anomaly

[288] JPL/NASA - Rectangles with wiggly sides near south polar cap

[289] JPL/NASA - Patterns Unique, Yet Familiar - Near south polar cap

[290] UAHirise - Polar Erg Margin - color

[291] JPL/NASA - Martian "spiders"

[292] UAHirise - Dry Ice (Spiders) Gone Wild

[293] UAHirise - Interesting Cones inside Crater - Spiders on Shadowed Side

[294] UAHirise - Odd Distribution of Spiders

[295] UAHirise - Giant Spiders

[296] NASA - Citizen scientists seek South Pole spiders on Mars

[297] JPL/NASA - Pit or impact crater next to very dark textured area

[298] JPL/NASA - Possible Layers on Floor of Suzhi Crater

[299] JPL/NASA - Color strips near Mawrth Vallis - area described as "a future interplanetary park"

[300] UAHirise - A View of the Painted Desert Near Mawrth Vallis

[301] UAHirise - Candidate ExoMars Landing Site in Mawrth Vallis

[302] NASA - Subsurface water

[303] JPL/NASA - Dark streaks - Curiosity rover sol 707

[304] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover sol 711

[305] HiRise - Ring and cone structures

[306] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - Mud cracks

[307] JPL/NASA - Glowing gullies

[308] UAHirise - Vastitas Borealis Periglacial Terrain

[309] UAHirise - Terrain in Vastitas Borealis

[310] UAHirise - Terrain in Vastitas Borealis

[311] ESA - Gusev Crater colour

[312] JPL//NASA - Evidence of past water

[313] NASA - Curiosity rover - Mars covered with organic material

[314] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - UAP

[315] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - UAP

[316] JPL/NASA - UAP over Mt. Sharp

[317] JPL/NASA - Opportunity rover - Microscopic image anomaly

[318] JPL/NASA - "Jelly doughnut" anomaly

[319] JPL/NASA - Surface anomaly (upper left)

[320] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[321] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[322] JPL/NASA - Meteorite imaged by Curiosity rover

[323] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[324] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation - context image

[325] NASA - Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

Extrasolar Systems

[326] NASA - Kepler survey catalogue with hundreds of new planet candidates

[327] Washington Post - Four Alien Planets Orbiting Nearby Star - (scroll down for gif)

[328] Universe Today - Kepler Confirms First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-Like Star (2011)

[329] UCSC.edu - Astronomers find evidence of water clouds in first spectrum of coldest brown dwarf

[330] JPL/NASA - Brown Dwarf Star Found by Spitzer Space Telescope

[331] abc.net.au - Small alien world most Jupiter-like planet ever seen

[332] astronomynow.com - Brown dwarfs hiding in plain sight in our solar neighborhood

[333] NASA - Astrobiology - The Ever More Puzzling and Intriguing “Tabby’s Star”

[334] Space.com - 'Alien megastructure' star is dimming again

[335] Chandra / Harvard.edu - Scroll down for video of implications for life

Alpha Centauri

[336] NASA - Hubble space telescope (HST) - Alpha Centauri A&B

[337] NASA - Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of nearest star system

[338] Universe Today - Proxima Centauri - Proxima b

[339] New York Times - Planet orbiting our closest neighbor

[340] NPR - Why the discovery of an earth-like planet is such a big deal

Trappist-1

[341] NASA - Press release - 2/22/2017

[342] New York Times - The Harmony That Keeps Trappist-1’s 7 Earth-size Worlds From Colliding

[343] NASA - Trappist-1 - Older than our solar system

[344] National Geographic - Hubble space telescope (HST) examines exoplanet atmospheres

Cosmic Consciousness

Messages Sent and (Possibly) Received and Implications

[345] Wikipedia - Arecibo Message

[346] NASA - Voyager - Golden Records

[347] Universe Today - Either stars are strange or there are 234 aliens trying to contact us

[348] National Geographic - Storm of Strange Radio Bursts Emerges From Deep Space

[349] CNET - Mysterious signal from deep space goes hyperactive - scroll down for gif of the signal graph

Popular References

[350] NPR - Why We Love Aliens

[351] YouTube - Neil deGrasse Tyson Videos - BBC - Carl Sagan on Alien Civilizations

[352] YouTube - Michio Kaku - Interstellar Communication (in every spectrum not just hydrogen)

[353] Futurism - Neil deGrasse Tyson Reveals When He Thinks We'll Find Aliens

[354] Business Insider - Edward Snowden Talks Alien Communication with Neil deGrasse Tyson

[355] Daily Galaxy - Listening for Aliens - Star Talk Radio - Neil deGrasse Tyson

[356] YouTube - Neil deGrasse Tyson - Seeking Intelligent Life

Understanding Consciousness & Actualizing the Potential

[357] Institute for Noetic Sciences

[358] HuffPost - Noetic science defined

[359] rationalwiki.org - Noetic science

[360] ncbi.nlm.gov - Unified Consciousness

[361] HuffPost - Be Supercoherent — Tune Into Your Consciousness!

[362] elephantjournal.com - The heart is the center of consciousness

[363] YouTube - Metronomes synchronizing / entraining - Coherence

[364] quantumactivist.com - Amit Goswami - "Everything is connected. So, what are you going to do about it?"

[365] YouTube - Coast to Coast AM - Mel Schwartz - Interview starts @ 1:17:00

Coherent Cosmic Consciousness and ET Contact

[366] HuffPost - The Case for Gnosticism, Part 6: A Gnostic Viewpoint on "Alien Abductions"

[367] experiencer.org - Close Encounters and Consciousness

[368] heartmeditators.com - Steven Greer Tutorial - How to make ET contact

[369] experiencer.org - Toward an integration of the contact modalities