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Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown
and things seems hard or tough
and people are stupid, obnoxious or daft and feel that you've had quite enough.....
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 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.
We're 30,000 light years from
galactic central core.
We go around 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 drections 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 therer's bugger all down here on Earth.
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