Comments on: ..and now for something completely different http://www.merlehamburger.net/2008/06/and-now-for-something-completely-different/ I have Pancreas Cancer, but I'm not Dead Yet! Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:40:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Catherine http://www.merlehamburger.net/2008/06/and-now-for-something-completely-different/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Catherine Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:01:00 +0000 http://www.merlehamburger.net/?p=67#comment-135 Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, And revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 19 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 40,000 miles an hour Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way. Our galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars; It's 100,000 light-years side-to-side. It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick, But out by us it's just 3000 light-years wide. We're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point; We go round every 200 million years. And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe! The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whiz [Wooo Hooo]. 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 Because there's bugger all down here on Earth. Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving,
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
That’s orbiting at 19 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 40,000 miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars;
It’s 100,000 light-years side-to-side.
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick,
But out by us it’s just 3000 light-years wide.
We’re 30,000 light-years from galactic central point;
We go round every 200 million years.
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe!

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz [Wooo Hooo].
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
Because there’s bugger all down here on Earth.

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