“Frank White, who literally wrote the book on the overview effect, is also part of the Overview Institute. And he thinks of space travel largely as Mitchell does—an evolutionary step. "If fish could think at our level of intelligence," White said, "back before humanity existed, and some fish were starting to venture up on land, a lot of them would be saying, just as we do now about space: 'Why would we want to go there? What's the point?' And they'd have literally no idea of what venturing onto land was going to mean".” EvolutionSpace Exploration2011Overview Effect Book:Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn't Source: Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn't