Stephen Hawking Sings Monty Python… Galaxy Song

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 enough

Just remember that you're standing

On a planet that's evolving

And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour

That'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 four hundred thousand miles an hour

In the galaxy we call the Milky Way

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars

It's a hundred thousand light years side to side

It bulges in the middle, six thousand light years thick

But out by us, it's just a thousand light years wide

We're thirty thousand light years 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 whizz

As fast as it can go, of 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 out in space

'Cause it's bugger all down here on Earth