Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
It's all a matter of perspective.
You gotta love Eric Idle.
Flash. Nice work up of the classic routine, with some good pics.
Jim Downey
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Bugger-all down here on earth
I love this song! I memorized the lyrics to it some years back, and I actually sing it in my head to pull out rough "facts" whenever cosmological questions come up in general conversation.
30,000 light years from the galactic center, check. Milky Way Galaxy 100,000 light years side to side, check. Bulges in the middle 16,000 light years thick, check.
The only "fact" I've checked is the one about "revolving at 900 miles an hour." If the circumference of the earth at the equator is a bit less than 25,000 miles, dividing that by 24 hours give a miles-per-hour figure of over 1,000 mph. Still, when you're talking to fellow doofuses, and you toss out that the earth is revolving at 900 miles an hour, nobody thinks of checking your facts.
So: What about the rest of the figures in the song?
Do we orbit the sun at 19 miles per second?
Does the sun move at 1 million miles a day (or yes, roughly 40,000 miles an hour) around the Milky Way?
Are there 100 billion stars in the galaxy?
Is it 100,000 light years side to side?
Does it bulge in the middle 16,000 light years thick, and is it just 3,000 light years thick where we are?
Are we 30,000 light years from galactic central point, and do we go round every 200 million years?
Anyone?
Just FYI, the song was from the "Can we have your liver?" segment of The Meaning of Life movie.
The Meaning of Life, Part V: Live Organ Transplants
Nice Iteration
'Toonish, but it makes the point.
Cool!
a personally evolving organism
space
it goes nice with this clip from youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKPUYZZbWxs&eurl=
:)
Repeat.
I think this hit ScienceBlogs.com sometime recently. And that tipper, I think, may have found it via a link on NewGrounds.com. In fact, the version here and another version entirely are at NewGrounds in this page from their internal search.
Lesson learned? If you like flash, check in at NewGrounds.com no less than once a week. And if you like sarcastic rants about people's general stupidity, Foamy will do.