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> > Did you know:
> > The sun is taking the lot of us on a cosmic ride at some 500,000 mph / 800,000 kmph around the galactic center, making a round trip every 250 million years or so.
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> > I don't know about you, but this fills me with awe. As well as some measure of humility, to be able to type and post this note, for what it's worth.
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> The sheer vastness of the cosmos does help us put our lives in perspective, doesn't it? I feel quite small and fragile, on a small, fragile world when I think about all that's out there.
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> I would be much more afraid of the universe, I think, except for the consideration that God sees every ponderously rotating stone of it. Just the idea that it is *seen* by somebody makes it more glorious and less intimidating. And the idea that it was all expertly crafted takes away its terror completely, while its awe remains.
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> Iss

For my part, I'm reminded of the Monty Python song -

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
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

Everyone join in for the second verse...

en"ter in single f"ile...