Sorry for the lull in musical tidbits. Been a bit busy with the final weeks of classes. Speaking of "I'm not dead yet!"...
Monty Python's Flying Circus is a British comedy troupe. The episodes aired on the BBC 1969 to 1974. The march that is heard over the wonderfully clever animations at the beginning of the program is John Phillip Sousa's The Liberty Bell. The Pythons also wrote music.
Eric Idle was responsible for many of the songs that the Pythons sang. He wrote Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (Go ahead, start whistling now. You know you want to.), and the Galaxy Song.
The Galaxy Song (written around 1981) describes in detail statistics that are known about our Universe. Most of them are fairly accurate, for example: "Just remember that you're standing/ on a planet that's evolving/ and revolving at 900 miles an hour." It's actually about 1037 miles an hour. Most of the other figures are pretty close too.
"The Universe itself just keeps expanding and expanding/ In all of the directions it can whiz. As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know/ Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is."
The last verse, in all it's uplifting splendor: "So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure/ How amazingly unlikely is your birth./ And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,/ Cuz it's bugger all down here on Earth!"
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