The songs that never fail to cheer us up

For months we’ve been toying with the idea of a Prediction jukebox. The same tunes just keep infiltrating our minds. They do tend to have a prediction-ey theme, such as Age of Aquarius or Moon Shadow. But none of us remember why we sing Jolene by Dolly Parton, but we do, irritatingly often, as our long-suffering colleagues will testify. But this song is my current favourite. It always brings me back down to Earth…

GALAXY SONG by Monty Python

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
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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'.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.

It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.

It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,

But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.

We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.

We go 'round every two hundred million years,

And our 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 whizz

As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,

Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.

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,

'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

Any more ideas for the Prediction jukebox? We're working on a list then we're going to you-tube it, or something....