>>A lot of people's first reaction always seems to be "we're so insignificant!"<< I feel the emotion of this reaction, but I think the proper response to this

>>A lot of people's first reaction always seems to be "we're so insignificant!"<< I feel the emotion of this reaction, but I think the proper response to this is the one that C.S. Lewis gave: size is just a number; significance is attached to things by minds. If you don't think tall people more important than short ones, or feet more important than eyes, why do you think stars more important than people? Certainly the stars don't think any such thing. They don't think at all. We do. Here's a quote from his space novel "Perelandra" where this concept comes up: "Part of him still knew that the size of a thing is its least important characteristic, that the material universe derived from the comparing and mythopoic power within him that very majesty before which he was now asked to abase himself, and that mere numbers could not over-awe us unless we lent them, from our own resources, that awfulness which they thmselves could no more supply than a banker's ledger. But this knowledge remained an abstraction. Mere bigness and loneliness overbore him."