[AccessD] Friday humour

On 10 Jun 2005 at 13:39, Elam, Debbie wrote:

> with the rings was to account for planetary movements.  It is a little like
> the headaches caused when you try to take the Earth's total motion into
> account when compared to the motion of another star in the milky way galaxy
> which is all rotating around a cluster of stars in the galaxy center.  


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 out by us it's just 3 000 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 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,
Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
because there's bugger all down here on Earth.

The Galaxy Song
Composers: Eric Idle & John Du Prez
Author: Eric Idle 
>From the movie "Monty Python's Meaning of Life"-- 
Stuart