[Dean's World] Dean: Perspective: The Galaxy Song

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Posted by Dean:
Perspective: The Galaxy Song
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1168136118.shtml


   By Eric Idle & John Du Prez:

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   Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
   And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
   That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
   A sun that is the source of all our power.
   The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
   Are moving at a million miles a day
   In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
   Of the galaxy we call the "Milky Way".

   Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
   It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
   It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
   But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
   We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
   We go 'round every two hundred million years,
   And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
   In this amazing and expanding universe.

   (Animated calliope interlude)

   The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
   In all of the directions it can whizz
   As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
   Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
   So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
   How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
   And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
   'Cause there's bugger-all down here on Earth.

   From [1]The Meaning of Life.

   Thank you, [2]Clint Black.

   (And thank you, [3]John.)

References

   1. http://www.amazon.com/Monty-Pythons-Meaning-Life-Python/dp/B000A2UBNE/sr=1-1/qid=1168136604/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-4713790-9667245?ie=UTF8&s=dvd/deansworld01-20
   2. http://www.amazon.com/DLectrified-Clint-Black/dp/B00001NTQO/sr=1-1/qid=1168137087/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-4713790-9667245?ie=UTF8&s=music/deansworld01-20
   3. http://www.xrdarabia.org/blog/