Re: brain food?

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: : Talking of big numbers etc brought the following Python song up from the depths of my brain...one that gets me to work in the mornings. (those of you that know it can hum along!) : : "Whenever life gets you down Mrs. Brown : : And things seems hard or tough : : And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft : : And you 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. : : Its orbiting at 19 miles a second, so its reckoned, : : A sun that is the source of all our power. : : The sun and you and me and all the stars that you can see : : Are moving at a million miles a day : : In an outer spiral arm at 40 thousand miles an hour : : Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way. : : Our galaxy itself contains a 100 billion stars, : : Its a 100 thousand light years side to side. : : It bulges in the middle 16 thousand light years thick : : But out by us, its just 3 thousand light years wide. : : We're 30 thousand 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 exanding universe. : : (8 bar break!) : : 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, : : 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 out in space, : : 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth." : : Its amazing what you can remember when it has a tune. : : Congrats on the site, Seumas - looks good. : Thanks Rhona : I like the rhyme - says it all really!

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