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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 remember that your 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!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVshkVF0SY


Nota para quem não conhece a história:

Certo homem, movido pelo seu desejo de ajudar os outros, inscreveu-se num banco de doação de orgãos. Devido a isso, certo dia bateram-lhe à porta dois magarefes com o propósito de lhe tirar o fígado. O homem não queria doar o fígado, mas foi obrigado por ser detentor de um cartão de doador de orgãos.

Enquanto um dos magarefes procedia à extracção, o outro falava calmamente na cozinha com a mulher da vítíma, tentando persuadi-la a doar o fígado também. Como ela estava indecisa, aparece este estranho cantor que lhe canta o quão grande e complexo é o Universo, de tal forma que ela, esmagada pela evidência da sua pequenez e insignificância perante a grandeza e complexidade das galáxias, se deixa convencer plácidamente a ser sacrificada também.