Just remember that you’re standing on a Planet that’s

                                                                                   evolving
Revolving at nine hundred miles an hour  
It’s orbiting at nineteen 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 forty thousand miles an hour  
Of the 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 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,  
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
‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth.
                                       The Galaxy Song
                                       From Monty Python's Meaning of Life
                                                                 Music & Lyrics Copyright Monty Python

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