Just remember that you're standing on
a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour,
That'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 100,000 light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light
years thick
But out by us its 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,
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
Because there' bugger all down here on
earth.
THE MEANING OF LIFE