Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Calibration device...

I'd linked to an earlier version of this, but here's The Scale Of The Universe 2.0.

"Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, that's orbiting at ninety miles a second, so it's reckoned, the sun that is the source of all our power..."

12 comments:

og said...

....And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, because there's bugger all down here on Earth.

...the real Mr.O said...



Much like the mind of God, absolutely unfathomable and unapprehendable.

Stretch said...

You have ensured I will get damn all done for the next 2 days. I hope you're pleased with yourself!

Old NFO said...

LOL, gotta say I agree with Og...

Robert said...

Must... resist... the.. urge.. to... wikiwander...

TCinVA said...

Mad props on quoting The Meaning of Life.

The notification of a new email on my computer is the machine that goes "Ping!"

ACS said...

*19* miles per second. But yeah, I used to sing this to my kid as a lullaby....

rickn8or said...

Og nailed it.

Tam said...

ACS,

"*19* miles per second."

Derp. That did sound a little fast. It feels closer to eighteen... :o

Mikael said...

"We go around once every two hundred million years."

I love the inclusion of Russel's Teapot.

KM said...

Much like the mind of God, absolutely unfathomable and unapprehendable

John Moses isn't that hard to figure out...he left a lot of notes and toys.

the real Mr.O said...

"John Moses isn't that hard to figure out...he left a lot of notes and toys."

A bit too clever.

Browning was a believer and credited his genius to God.