tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post3216876845947473953..comments2024-03-27T01:27:21.576-08:00Comments on The Immoral Minority: Final humbling thought for the day.Gryphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02356503547155430235noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-74110957845945091622012-12-03T07:36:11.779-09:002012-12-03T07:36:11.779-09:00i was going to write this very thing but you did i...i was going to write this very thing but you did it better and with more info. we mere humans are super speed demons on the out out outside. i find it amazing how gravity keeps everything together under such dire circumstances of revolution and velocityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-40660914553428995692012-12-03T02:53:09.856-09:002012-12-03T02:53:09.856-09:00Monty Python's Galaxy Song comes to mind.. htt...Monty Python's Galaxy Song comes to mind.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVshkVF0SY<br />Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving<br />And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,<br />That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,<br />A sun that is the source of all our power.<br />The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see<br />Are moving at a million miles a day<br />In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,<br />Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.<br />Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.<br />It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.<br />It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,<br />But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.<br />We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.<br />We go 'round every two hundred million years,<br />And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions<br />In this amazing and expanding universe.<br /><br />The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding<br />In all of the directions it can whizz<br />As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,<br />Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.<br />So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,<br />How amazingly unlikely is your birth,<br />And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,<br />'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth. k55f5rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11951954190542930354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-49329228847405504852012-12-02T20:32:08.492-09:002012-12-02T20:32:08.492-09:00It gets even more exciting when you consider that ...It gets even more exciting when you consider that the earth is traveling around the sun at 60,000 mph, and the solar system is revolving around the galactic center at 568,000 mph. On top of that the Milky Way galaxy itself is traveling through space at 190 miles per second! So even when we are sitting still, we are anything but.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-40319519599863743142012-12-02T19:07:06.236-09:002012-12-02T19:07:06.236-09:00It's not a birthday to me, it's another tr...It's not a birthday to me, it's another trip around the sun. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-73137239130849774802012-12-02T18:35:36.874-09:002012-12-02T18:35:36.874-09:00Totally awesome!Totally awesome!WakeUpAmericanoreply@blogger.com