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Date: 23 Aug 2006 21:51:10
From: lynt
Subject: All you ever need to know about the Universe
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THE UNIVERSE SONG, from Monty Python's THE MEANING OF LIFE
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard
or tough.
and people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
and you feel that you've had quite enouuuuuuuuugh...
Just
re-
member that you're standing on a planet that's evolving,
and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour...
That's orbiting at ninety 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 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 lightyears side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand lightyears thick,
but out by us it's just three thousand lightyears wide.
We're thirty thousand lightyears 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 whiz.
As fast as it can go, that's the speed of light you know;
twelve million miles a minute, that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember when your 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!
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Date: 23 Aug 2006 18:01:39
From: Michael McCulloch
Subject: Re: All you ever need to know about the Universe
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On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:51:10 GMT, "lynt" <tonyt92@yahoo.com > wrote:
>THE UNIVERSE SONG, from Monty Python's THE MEANING OF LIFE
...
>The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
>in all of the directions it can whiz.
>As fast as it can go, that's the speed of light you know;
>twelve million miles a minute, that's the fastest speed there is.
Bzzt! Wrong.
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Michael McCulloch
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Date: 23 Aug 2006 19:31:11
From: Davoud
Subject: Re: All you ever need to know about the Universe
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lynt wrote:
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> >THE UNIVERSE SONG, from Monty Python's THE MEANING OF LIFE
> ...
> >The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
> >in all of the directions it can whiz.
> >As fast as it can go, that's the speed of light you know;
> >twelve million miles a minute, that's the fastest speed there is.
Michael McCulloch replied:
> Bzzt! Wrong.
Bzzt! It's a Monty bleedin' Python song, not a paper in arXiv!
Davoud
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usenet *at* davidillig dawt com
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Date: 24 Aug 2006 05:35:08
From: Eugene Griessel
Subject: Re: All you ever need to know about the Universe
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Davoud <star@sky.net > wrote:
>lynt wrote:
>>
>> >THE UNIVERSE SONG, from Monty Python's THE MEANING OF LIFE
>> ...
>> >The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
>> >in all of the directions it can whiz.
>> >As fast as it can go, that's the speed of light you know;
>> >twelve million miles a minute, that's the fastest speed there is.
>
>Michael McCulloch replied:
>> Bzzt! Wrong.
>
>Bzzt! It's a Monty bleedin' Python song, not a paper in arXiv!
>
Given that it dates from the early eighties - and was written by Eric
Idle (granted he has a degree in English from Cambridge) who probably
is not the greatest scientist extant. It still remains one of my
favourite ditties, mind you!
Eugene L Griessel
Prostitutes perform the same functions as priests, but far more thoroughly.
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