From the dock - an aircraft carrier appears huge: from aerial images against an ocean - not so huge.
From space, oceans are blue patches among green and brown land masses - partially obscured by clouds.
Earth is virtually invisible from outside our solar system; the sun virtually invisible from beyond several light years; and our entire Galaxy is barely noticeable from even the nearest galaxy.
To most of the universe, the Milky Way is an invisible speck only seen with the largest telescopes of another species on another world.
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