This has created my opportunity to remind you of a Monty Python song
The Galaxy song from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And reolving at nine thousand miles an hour.
It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at fourteen thousand miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred million stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
Our 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 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!
-- Eric Idle
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At 10:08 20/10/99 +0100, Tony Moss wrote:
>John
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>>Earth
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>>Orion Arm
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>>Local Group
>>Virgo Ursa Major Cluster
>>Known Universe
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>or you could have added....."Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the
unfashionable end of Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy...." :-)
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>with apologies to Douglas Adams
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>Tony M.
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>P.S. I've always suppressed my 'automatic signature' at the end of List
postings as I'd supposed it would become irritating after a couple of
readings. Like the girl in the musical
>(can't remember which) "With me it's all or nothing..."
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>P.P.S. To bring this fully back on topic I can't remember if anyone
mentioned it but, when using CDs as sundial discs, the 'Recordable' variety,
used blank, give the clearest sun line. To test this use one that is half
full when the recorded bit (nearest the middle) has a 'fuzz halo' by
comparison. The very cheapest types have no printing either side so look best.
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