Re: Favorite All Time Rock Lyric.....

On Jul 12, 6:18 am, RickNBarbInSD <rickdowl...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 10, 4:46 am, The old geezer <J...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

What one do you like? This one about sez it all:

"Twenty years of schoolin' & they put you on the day shift"!

TOG

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A 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 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 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 whizz
As fast as it can go, at 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 up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

Not to discount the excellent prose, but recently some astronomers
have found reason to believe that our star and solar system are part
of a smaller galaxy that is in collision with the "milky Way" giant
spiral, and that we are passing though at some angle that isn't
aligned with the spiral. The bulk of the smaller galaxy was a
relatively recent discovery because most of it lies on the other side
of the Milky Way, and was obscured by dust and other material. The
newer infrared and x-ray scopes can now see it. The "Sagittarius
Dwarf" galaxy was discovered around 1994, and it MAY be possible that
we are part of it, passing through the Milky Way. The plane of our
Solar system is at nearly 90 degrees in relation to the plane of the
Milky Way and has had astronomers wondering why for a long time. This
theory might help to explain it.

LP

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