Because I Frequently Get Them Crossed
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gnomiOver lunch recently with mabfan and magid, I found myself conflating two silly songs that have to do with the universe. Therefore, here they are, unconflated, for my future reference.
(I need a tag for "stuff I keep forgetting", to mark this and, for instance, the "The doge did what the doge does" bit for when I get confused again. OK, now I've created one.)
(from here)
YAKKO'S UNIVERSE (Episode 3)
Music and lyrics by Randy Rogel.
Yakko: Everybody lives on a street in a city
Or a village or a town for what it's worth.
And they're all inside a country which is part of a continent
That sits upon a planet known as Earth.
And the Earth is a ball full of oceans and some mountains
Which is out there spinning silently in space.
And living on that Earth are the plants and the animals
And also the entire human race.
It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
It's big and black and inky
And we are small and dinky
It's a big universe and we're not.
And we're part of a vast interplanetary system
Stretching seven hundred billion miles long.
With nine planets and a sun; we think the Earth's the only one
That has life on it, although we could be wrong.
Across the interstellar voids are a billion asteroids
Including meteors and Halley's Comet too.
And there's over fifty moons floating out there like balloons
In a panoramic trillion-mile view.
And still it's all a speck amid a hundred billion stars
In a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
It's sixty thousand trillion miles from one end to the other
And still that's just a fraction of the way.
'Cause there's a hundred billion galaxies that stretch across the sky
Filled with constellations, planets, moons and stars.
And still the universe extends to a place that never ends
Which is maybe just inside a little jar!
Y,W+D : It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
Though we don't know how it got here
We're an important part here
It's a big universe and it's ours!
(from here)
The Universe Song from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
The only(?) accurate(?) version on the Web. [NOT YET VERIFIED]
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough.
When people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite enough...
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving.
Revolving at nine hundred miles an hour.
It's orbiting at nineteen 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.
The 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.
[musical, animated interlude]
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz.
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know?
Twelve million miles a minute and 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 'ere on Earth!
mabfan and magid, I found myself conflating two silly songs that have to do with the universe. Therefore, here they are, unconflated, for my future reference.(I need a tag for "stuff I keep forgetting", to mark this and, for instance, the "The doge did what the doge does" bit for when I get confused again. OK, now I've created one.)
(from here)
YAKKO'S UNIVERSE (Episode 3)
Music and lyrics by Randy Rogel.
Yakko: Everybody lives on a street in a city
Or a village or a town for what it's worth.
And they're all inside a country which is part of a continent
That sits upon a planet known as Earth.
And the Earth is a ball full of oceans and some mountains
Which is out there spinning silently in space.
And living on that Earth are the plants and the animals
And also the entire human race.
It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
It's big and black and inky
And we are small and dinky
It's a big universe and we're not.
And we're part of a vast interplanetary system
Stretching seven hundred billion miles long.
With nine planets and a sun; we think the Earth's the only one
That has life on it, although we could be wrong.
Across the interstellar voids are a billion asteroids
Including meteors and Halley's Comet too.
And there's over fifty moons floating out there like balloons
In a panoramic trillion-mile view.
And still it's all a speck amid a hundred billion stars
In a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
It's sixty thousand trillion miles from one end to the other
And still that's just a fraction of the way.
'Cause there's a hundred billion galaxies that stretch across the sky
Filled with constellations, planets, moons and stars.
And still the universe extends to a place that never ends
Which is maybe just inside a little jar!
Y,W+D : It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
Though we don't know how it got here
We're an important part here
It's a big universe and it's ours!
(from here)
The Universe Song from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
The only(?) accurate(?) version on the Web. [NOT YET VERIFIED]
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough.
When people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite enough...
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving.
Revolving at nine hundred miles an hour.
It's orbiting at nineteen 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.
The 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.
[musical, animated interlude]
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz.
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know?
Twelve million miles a minute and 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 'ere on Earth!
