"You can see environmental damage from orbit"

[Roboramma]

Because it's meaningless. The atmosphere is as big as it is, and probably as big as it has ever been. It's pointless to compare the thickness of it with the size of the Earth. If it was thicker, would taking care of our environment be any less important?

It's like saying that our skin is only a few millimetres thick, so it's vitally important to look after it. One does not necessarily follow the other.

The more atmosphere there is, the less our actions can affect it. To look up at the sky from the ground, to most of us it looks huge and almost infinite, it's hard to imagine that something that we're doing could have any real affect. Looking at it from space and seeing it as no more than a thin film around our planet makes one realise that maybe it's not so infinite after all.
All she's doing is offering a change of viewpoint, things look different from up there.

 

[Soapy Sam]

If I was sitting in a spaceship I wasn't sure could survive re-entry, I might babble a very great deal of nonsense, because it was comforting to hear my own voice.
Given the somewhat tense situation up there, I think the crew are to be congratulated on keeping remarkably cool. Not that I'd expect anything different.

I also suspect if I ever got into orbit, I'd be so gobsmacked by the view that my tongue would be stuck to the window.

Gods. Just once...