Until you find out that bacteria can accompany us and, more importantly, survive in conditions we don't survive in without aid.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bacteria-discover...

The descendants of our evolutionary lineage will hopefully leave the solar system, but I doubt they'll be the same species, or even primarily biological.

It's our job to nurture the trajectory that will make this happen.

> so that makes us pretty important.

To who?