People like to think that they have some significance. That they have some importance and our primitive egos emphasizes this. It is hard for most to comprehend our actual insignificance in the scheme of things, especially at ground-level when conversing eye-to-eye.
We still hold onto our a sense of importance when viewing down from low altitude only because we can still our landscape.
We however begin to lose our perspective of importance as we get to the heights of low-Earth orbit.
The Earth as viewed from the moon is a captivating sight, but other than that, humanity at this point is not visible.
Earth viewed from the surface of Mars is nothing more than a tiny orb.
Earth viewed from Saturn is but a faint, non-descriptive dot.
Earth is as small as one photographic pixel when viewed from the Kuiper Belt. Humanity at this distance is not so important.
Earth is completely lost once we get to the Oort Cloud. Our Sun at this distance is a red dot.
