the universe song olarak da bilinen, eric idle manyağının yazdığı, evrenin kısa bir özetini yapan, bir şarkıda olabilecek en güzel, en komik ve en bilgi dolu sözlere sahip monty python şarkısı
ahan da sözleri:
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
re-
member 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 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!
