You're standing
On a planet that's revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
It is orbiting at nineteen miles a second
The sun.
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 four hundred thousand miles an hour
In 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, six thousand light years thick
But out by us, it's just a thousand light years wide
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding... https://genius.com/Monty-python-the-galaxy-song-lyrics
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Gerald Zani
Senior Engineering Technician
Brown University School of Engineering
(401) 863-9571