Monty Python's - The Meaning of Life - Galaxy Song

 

 

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

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 a 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 whizz

As fast as it can go the speed of light you know

12 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.

      "Galaxy Song" is a song written by Eric Idle and John Du Prez. It first appeared in the 1983 film Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life". The lyrics include a number of astronomical quantities, the vast majority of which are accurate to within one or two significant figures.