[MD] A Bit of Perspective

[MarshaV]

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On Sep 10, 2010, at 8:58 PM, Horse wrote:

> The Galaxy Song By Monty Python
> 
> Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
> And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
> It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
> The sun that is the source of all our power.
> Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
> Are moving at a million miles a day,
> In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
> Of a 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 itself is one of millions of billions
> In this amazing and expanding universe.
> 
> //Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
> In all of the directions it can whiz;
> 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 out in space,
> 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
> --- Frank Zappa
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