Powers of Ten

After watching a piece like that, you realize how small you and your problems are as compared to something as vast as outer space.  Numerically that makes each one of us a mere 1ish verses 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.  Also noteworthy was that the video explored all the way down to 10^-18, near the level of quarks.  This is interesting because in 1977 when the film was made, quarks were very much a young theory and were not as readily accepted as they are today.

Taking a look around, this piece is continually referenced.  A few noteworthy references from Wikipedia include:

The opening scene was spoofed in the couch gag for The Simpsons episode, "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" (going from 10²⁶ to 10^-16 to Homer's head, to which Homer says, "Wow!"), and has been repeated twice with different dialogue on "On a Clear Day, I Can't See My Sister" (where Homer says, "Cool!" after the scene returns to the living room and Kang and Kodos can be heard laughing) and "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" (where Homer says "Weird!" after the scene returns to the living room).

For their Twisted Logic Tour in 2005 and 2006, the band Coldplay used Powers of Ten as the backdrop for their performance of The Scientist.

At the ending of Men in Black, the camera pulls out showing that the universe is one of many marbles in an alien's bag, an intergalactic spoof of this.

The opening of the film Contact is a Powers of Ten-style montage that takes the viewer from Earth to the edge of the universe before ultimately resolving into the pupil of the main character's eye.

An unreleased advertisement for Apple's Mac OS X 10.2, "Jaguar," is similar to Powers of Ten. "Jaguar - Touching"

Wow, it is quite amazing to see that a mere nine minutes of video has made such a huge cultural impact.