ticklebutton
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Whenever life get you down,
And things seem hard or tough.
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite enu-hu-hu-huuuuff!
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.
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 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 where we are it's only 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 universe.
The universe itself keeps on 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, (about 186,000 miles per second - that's 299,792,458 meters per second)
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 not enough down here on Earth.
p.s. Anyone know who wrote this?
Button 😛
And things seem hard or tough.
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite enu-hu-hu-huuuuff!
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.
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 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 where we are it's only 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 universe.
The universe itself keeps on 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, (about 186,000 miles per second - that's 299,792,458 meters per second)
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 not enough down here on Earth.
p.s. Anyone know who wrote this?
Button 😛
