Thsi is an amazingly clean and accurate description of celestial velocities. Be aware that the Earth's rotation speed is accurate for Florida's latitude, less than that for points north. You also might want to change the last line if you do a handout. It's downloadable from various online websites. Just google for Monty Python song lyrics galaxy song and you'll get multiple hits. The song itself may also be down loadable, but it's on the Monty Python Sings album, along with other typical Monty Python (read "adult") songs. Use your discretion and beware. To be safe copy the song onto another disk separately.
Composers: Eric Idle & John Du PrezAuthor: Eric IdleSinger: Eric IdleFrom the 'Meaning of Life' album --------------- Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolvingAnd 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.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizzAs fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest spe...
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