Re: [Phys-L] As the universe turns,

[Joseph Bellina <inquirybellina@comcast.net>]

That might explain my nausea!!!
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> On Sep 6, 2024, at 11:56 AM, Zani, Gerald via Phys-l <phys-l@mail.phys-l.org> wrote:
>
> 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
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