[SunkenCiv]

[Credit: 2MASS Project, UMass, IPAC/Caltech, NSF, NASA]

[samtheman]

thanks

[Flick Lives]

We live out in "the country" of our local galaxy. Imagine how many stars appear in the night sky if one lives on planet toward the galactic core. I wonder if their night skies are even dark?

[BBB333]

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, 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