When Norwich is getting you down, just remember

that you're standing on a planet
That's revolving at 900 miles an hour
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second
Around a Sun that is the source of all our power.
This sun and our earth with it, so it's reckoned,
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.

This galaxy itself and our sun with it
And every other star that we can see
At half a million miles an hour is belting
Round the centre of Milky Galaxy.
And our Galaxy is only one of millions
That's 100,000 light years side to side
All expanding outwards from each other
At several thousand miles a second so
they never can collide.

The Universe itself keeps on expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know
At 12 million miles a minute, which is the fastest speed there is.
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
Your life itself is so unlikely on the
planet of your birth
And just pray that there's intelligent
life somewhere up in space
Because there's bugger all on here on earth.

Posted By: pants, Dec 8, 19:24:04