Just remember that we're living on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 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.
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'.
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Giving that he had to make the lyrics parse his numbers were quite close. Nicely done Eric Idle!
And revolving at 900 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.
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'.
.
.
.
Giving that he had to make the lyrics parse his numbers were quite close. Nicely done Eric Idle!
