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Attention-Seeking Behavior

To those of you who like to label some others as “Attention-Seeking” or “Self-absorbed” for talking about their problems a lot, I understand where you are coming from. It is inconvenient for a person to listen to the issues of another person, of course it is. We all have our own lives to live and it would be much easier to just label and stigmatize a person who is so desperately trying to get your attention. However, no one should use terms like “Attention-Seeking” or “Self-Absorbed” as ways to antagonize another person, because we shouldn’t attack people with attention seeking behaviors at all.

We often have busy lives and we rarely stop to truly understand what is going on inside another person’s head. A lot of the time some of us make assumptions about what another person’s motives are, and then we take that assumption about another person and judge it very harshly- as if it were a confirmed truth. For example, a girl speaks about her struggles with anxiety and depression to her friends, and another girl sees this and assumes that the first girl is trying to get pity and extra care from her friends. In reality, the first girl is lost about what to do in response to such struggles, and is really just trying to find support from her friends, and does so because she feels that it is necessary to maintain motivation in seeking professional help.

Of course there are people in this world who are going to want to be the center of attention and will actively try to accomplish that. But, looking at this scenario, and knowing the reality of it from the first girl’s perspective, we should know that ,in this situation, she is having a hard time in life and is merely fumbling for a way out of it, and we should at least understand this this instead of labeling her as a way of harsh criticism.

We should also keep in mind that it’s already hard enough for this girl, and she can do much more to improve herself without being branded as an attention-seeker. I can say this from experience. To my knowledge I’ve been tagged as an attention seeker by at least three people in the past one year of my life and it has done severe damage to my self esteem, and any ability to help myself. Speaking out about a three year struggle with mental illness and a toxic relationship has led some to feel like it’s okay to say that I am constantly seeking attention. Truth is, I was never looking for sympathy, I was looking for hope. When I would tell someone about my issues, I was really just trying to find someone who believed in me in overcoming them, and I did that because I couldn’t believe in myself. I know it’s no one’s responsibility to give me encouragement or support, but my attention seeking behavior should not warrant the kind of labels used to attack people like me. People who exhibit attention seeking behaviors, in cases like mine, are crying for help and not validation like many people want to assume. When I hear that a person calls me an “attention-seeking wh*re” I begin to feel more sad than I already had before. I feel as if I have  no ability to improve myself, and I feel like a horrible person who should not desire the care and support of my friends and family. It’s very discouraging to hear such a demonizing label being spewn at what little self esteem I have left, and ironically, it makes it even harder for me to not want to compulsively ask my close friends if I really am self-absorbed and attention seeking- So it’s sometimes ultimately more harmful to call someone “attention-seeking” than it is helpful.

With that being said, we all know it’s not okay to have attention-seeking behavior, because it is unhealthy for anyone involved, but we shouldn’t criticise attention-seekers as if they’re lower-quality people. Instead we should have a much more gentle approach when it comes to confronting attention-seekers, because if we label them in a way that is meant to put them down and shame them, we might possibly be hurting a person who is already in so much pain, and we might be doing so to the point where their behavior worsens. So next time you want to use name-calling to attack an attention-seeker, please remember that they, just like everyone else from time to time, might just need someone’s help - And that’s not a crime at all.

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Ocean Worlds Beyond Earth

We’re incredibly lucky to live on a planet drenched in water, nestled in a perfect distance from our sun and wrapped with magnetic fields keeping our atmosphere intact against harsh radiation and space weather.

We know from recent research that life can persist in the cruelest of environments here on Earth, which gives us hope to finding life thriving on other worlds. While we have yet to find life outside of Earth, we are optimistic about the possibilities, especially on other ocean worlds right here in our solar system.  

So…What’s the News?!

Two of our veteran missions are providing tantalizing new details about icy, ocean-bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn, further enhancing the scientific interest of these and other “ocean worlds” in our solar system and beyond!

Cassini scientists announce that a form of energy for life appears to exist in Saturn’s moon Enceladus, and Hubble researchers report additional evidence of plumes erupting from Jupiter’s moon Europa.

The Two Missions: Cassini and Hubble

Cassini

Our Cassini spacecraft has found that hydrothermal vents in the ocean of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus are producing hydrogen gas, which could potentially provide a chemical energy source for life.

Cassini discovered that this little moon of Saturn was active in 2005. The discovery that Enceladus has jets of gas and icy particles coming out of its south polar region surprised the world. Later we determined that plumes of material are coming from a global ocean under the icy crust, through large cracks known as “tiger stripes.” 

We have more evidence now – this time sampled straight from the plume itself – of hydrothermal activity, and we now know the water is chemically interacting with the rock beneath the ocean and producing the kind of chemistry that could be used by microbes IF they happened to be there.

This is the culmination of 12 years of investigations by Cassini and a capstone finding for the mission. We now know Enceladus has nearly all the ingredients needed for life as we know it.

The Cassini spacecraft made its deepest dive through the plume on Oct. 28, 2015. From previous flybys, Cassini determined that nearly 98% of the gas in the plume is water and the rest is a mixture of other molecules, including carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia. 

Cassini’s other instruments provided evidence of hydrothermal activity in the ocean. What we really wanted to know was…Is there hydrogen being produced that microbes could use to make energy? And that’s exactly what we found!

To be clear…we haven’t discovered microbes at Enceladus, but vents of this type at Earth host these kinds of life. We’re cautiously excited at the prospect that there might be something like this at Enceladus too!

Hubble

The Hubble Space Telescope has also been studying another ocean world in our solar system: Europa!

Europa is one of the four major moons of Jupiter, about the size of our own moon but very different in appearance. It’s a cold, icy world with a relatively smooth, bright surface crisscrossed with dark cracks and patches of reddish material.

What makes Europa interesting is that it’s believed to have a global ocean, underneath a thick crust of ice. In fact, it’s got about twice as much ocean as planet Earth!

In 2014, we detected evidence of intermittent water plumes on the surface of Europa, which is interesting because they may provide us with easier access to subsurface liquid water without having to drill through miles of ice.

And now, in 2016, we’ve found one particular plume candidate that appears to be at the same location that it was seen in 2014. 

This is exciting because if we can establish that a particular feature does repeat, then it is much more likely to be real and we can attempt to study and understand the processes that cause it to turn on or off. 

This plume also happens to coincide with an area where Europa is unusually warm as compared to the surrounding terrain. The plume candidates are about 30 to 60 miles (50 to 100 kilometers) in height and are well-positioned for observation, being in a relatively equatorial and well-determined location.

What Does All This Mean and What’s Next?

Hubble and Cassini are inherently different missions, but their complementary scientific discoveries, along with the synergy between our current and planned missions, will help us in finding out whether we are alone in the universe. 

Hubble will continue to observe Europa. If you’re wondering how we might be able to get more information on the Europa plume, the upcoming Europa Clipper mission will be carrying a suite of 9 instruments to investigate whether the mysterious icy moon could harbor conditions favorable for life. Europa Clipper is slated to launch in the 2020s.

This future mission will be able to study the surface of Europa in great detail and assess the habitability of this moon. Whether there’s life there or not is a question for this future mission to discover!

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