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| I'm a German living in England since 1996 and will probably do so for the rest of my life. I'm a software tester so I spend a long time looking at a monitor screen. I love the internet for it's vast knowledge it contains and the fact that this knowledge is easily accessible. Astronomy is my hobby, I especially like Cosmology. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Monty Python hit it right on the nail in 'Meaning of Life':
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving,
and revolving at 900 miles an hour,
that's orbiting at 90 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 40 thousand miles an hour,
of the galaxy we call the milky way.
Our galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars,
it's a 100 thousand light-years, side to side,
it bulges in the middle,
16 thousand light-years thick,
but out by is its 3000 light-years wide,
we're 30 thousand light-years from galactic central point,
we go round every 200 million years,
and your 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 whiz.
As fast as it can go,
the speed of light, you know,
12 million miles a minute,
and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when very you're feeling very small and insecure,
how amazingly and unlikely is your birth,
and pray there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'coz there's bugger all down here on earth.
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