The Galaxy Song (Monty Python)

[xArianaLovexx]

where did you get the picture of the tire on the bike rack

[Wolfienka]

I love how he says the "expanding" :D

[h4x0rman1]

Hey now, star wars was in a galaxy far far away :( not the milkyway sheesh

[sAWfr3ak]

0:40 Star Wars!

[Trexzilla222]

I love this song... So happy. :3

This would go well with some squee cat videos.

[Airhockeylirare]

This song never fails to make me at lest little happier when I'm miserable. Thank you Eric Idle. I luv you.

[RiskyCricket]

We orbit the sun at apprx. 19 miles a second, not 90. So that picture of the guy with "90 MIles" is kinda very wrong. :P

[yesiamawizardjonny]

@RiskyCricket I already said that, jackass.

[finalascent]

Very well chosen images... great song, too - well written and in keeping with real science... and a bit wistful, too...

[Cizza225]

lol i used this song in my assignment ;)

[yesiamawizardjonny]

Actually 18.5, but that's not good for rhyme.

[yesiamawizardjonny]

19 Miles Per Second. Not 90

[SSTTEEAALLTTHH]

@yesiamawizardjonny

He said 19, listen better

[yesiamawizardjonny]

@SSTTEEAALLTTHH Look at the picture in this video. It's a guy standing on a ridge with the word "90 MPH"

[VitriolicAC]

@yesiamawizardjonny We must have gone 88mph for you to correct such an old song.

[cornmon]

@yesiamawizardjonny no, that's Andromeda..it's a spiral galaxy, we just see her at a confusing angle..

[majik2hanz]

I have this image of the last USA Space Shuttle flight crew singing this on the final flight and those who passed back in 2002 joining them in song : )

[yesiamawizardjonny]

@majik2hanz Pretty sure it was 2003 man. February 2003?

[majik2hanz]

@yesiamawizardjonny

Ah yes thanks for correction Feb 1 2003. I still have this memory of being at part time job I had at time and seeing its release on network news (over and over) showing the breakup over texas sky on reentry and how it filled the news for days.

[yesiamawizardjonny]

@majik2hanz That would be so awesome. I wanna put this song to a montage of Apollo Moon Landing footage.

[runedude65]

@andomitor8 No it didn't :3

[20meerkat]

@lovewithoutfear thats about the size of it... ;D

[20meerkat]

This helped with my test

Test reads: How big is our galaxy?

Me (thinking): 'Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars... its a hundred thousand light years side to side!'

I got a good mark thanks to this song! THANKS!

[andomitor8]

i dont mean to be a nerd but that galaxy at 0:47 is andromeda not us so we cant be in its outer spiral arm. sorry i am an astronomy nerd and it had to be said :P

[MrSwinny88]

@andomitor8 agreed! well spotted!

[99white]

@andomitor8 It didn't really need to be said, because we can't take a picture of our own galaxy from afar now can we? A bit of the old 'kinda obvious', wouldn't you say? :-)

[snowbarbieblue]

0:11 Hahahahaha.........

[Starcrow999]

Darn good song! He sing very good too.

[StrikaAmaru]

@lovewithoutfear As a consolation, though, we do have a lot of kitten videos =^.^=

[GOTHICxxPRINCESSxx]

@PapaNoah2012 One of the Pythons, it was either John or Michael, said that Eric was the only one who could actually sing. I disagree, I think Terry J is marvellous at singing, but anyway.

Also, Eric is sort of the 'musical' one, he does quite a lot of the songs and plays the guitar. :)

[PapaNoah2012]

Why is it that Eric Idle sings every song? :D

[07jburton]

i didnt know star wars was so common in space?

[j02oo1]

If we were taught this song at school, our test results would just be so much better!

[dmandiego]

@j02oo1 guess what mate? It already is! My astronomy professor used it in a lecture before our finals last semester :D

[thedarksun8891]

and with that i go on to play spore in the space age

[boneslash55]

lol at the star war refrences

[hazging]

haha ! i watched this and learnt alot ;)

[hockeymaniac4444]

haha! he says expanding in such a funny way!

[74sowen]

@hockeymaniac4444 The universe itself keeps on exPAYnding and exPAYnding...

[nolan2465]

Space is just mind blowing trying to think of how many universes there are

[Aardvarkperson]

Eric Idle has more talent than The Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus and those free credit report guys combined in his left glove's pinky finger.

[dancinginfernal]

Can we have your liver, then?

[mccatey]

simply legendary :)

[jkirk1963]

Truth is funny .

[TheGrimReaper766]

'and you pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, cos there's bugger all down here on earth' ..... Best ending ever ! Lol

[MrMickthemonster]

@TheGrimReaper766 Bugger you I was gonna quote that! I love Eric Idle. I love the meaning of life.

[bunneybeast]

I love the pictures you used! 'Feeling insecure' then show a pic of Iran, hahaha!!!!

[doctorwhom1]

and people are stupid obnoxious or daft (bush attack!!!)

[mariosapm]

what game is the screenshot at 2.35 from?

[Donaldfossedal]

@mariosapm

It's Captain Bible for MS-DOS! sorry for such a late response

[untmortadela]

@Donaldfossedal Can we have your liver then?

[cwchmawr]

very good indeed. excellent video.

[Ambertherabidrabbit]

There really is bugger all down here.

[MrDavid5304]

1:54 BANJO!!!!

[alanmegs]

My Dad played this for me all the time when I was younger, science vs humour at its best, with a wee bit of Secular/Humanist philosophy thrown in for good measure... Love it!

[elliott1916]

WELL DONE. A wonderful video for this song. Good lad.

[michaelscot9]

u tard who said to count stars it would tke10 thousand lifetimes to count them all whenever my mom crys i play always look on the bright side of life

[Korkzor]

@michaelscot9 more than that :). If you could count one star pr. second it would take you 15000 and some odd years to count the stars in the milky way galaxy. :D..

[taratess]

I wish I had been able to listen to this when I broke up with my 1st ex in 2002.

[aperculum]

Shouldn't that be 19 miles a second?

[weegeo12345]

@aperculum please don't forgot this music is from a movie an old movie not very up to date

[aperculum]

@weegeo12345 No, the singer actually says 19 which is correct. Whoever made this video probably just misheard 19 as 90 and put that on the video :)

[MrMurray744]

LOL Teh is SOOOO Funny

[BankofCaligula]

Not exactly sure why YouTube put this as a related link to my band's video but I find that a huge compliment.

[listen2meokidoki]

Donaldfossedal

I noticed you visited Potholer54's You-Tube site. Kurious to see everyone's nationality. Yours is a secret. THEN I sees you like the Galaxy Song. Funny as I recently saw The Meaning of Life & decided that song will be played at my funeral.

[listen2meokidoki]

Now, here's some simple statistics. There are, some say, 6.5 billion humans. If you speed dated them at 1 second each, a very quick hello, 24x7 it would take ~ 205 years. Wiki says the Mily Way is 100-400 Billion stars. If you speed date THEM it would take you 3,169 to 12,675 years. Foget biblically knowing every star. And that's just here-abouts. But looking at a sun will blind you. I did & it partly did, in my right eye. The partial eclipse, Sydney 1959! So Listen 2 ME! & don't do it.

[spinynorman230]

...huh?

[listen2meokidoki]

@spinynorman230 HUH? What's the matter with you mate? Dartf or something? Can't imagine speed dating all the stars in the galaxy? You probably don't even know what speed dating is! look, the only way humanity is ever going to know exactly how many stars there are in the Milky Way is to count them individually. OK? Right then, star counting. And don't stop until you've finished. And none of that pining for the fiords nonsense.

[RockmanNeka2]

(Awaits for CTFCPat to come here and baw like the illiterate fucktard he is.)

[CTFCPat]

RockmanNeka2 is a super brave ニダ　warrior, he deletes comments and doesn't afraid of anything.（笑）

[RockmanNeka2]

@CTFCPat Well surprise surprise, here comes the bawwing fucktard now.

[MephilesSolaris]

@CTFCPat ahahah wow!

[RockmanNeka2]

@CTFCPat So says the nig-nug who declaired his own defeat by blocking the REAL "superior", or in other words; CTFCPat was smoked at his own game.

[19peter96]

lol when the song says 'when your feeling very small and insecure' and a picture of iran comes up

[girlovestacos88]

I love this song :D :D catchy AND educational! lol

[TheMojore]

I love the ending line. So true. People should stop forcing their beliefs on youtube comments, it's pathetic and useless.

[markguitarexpert]

just stop talking about religon your not going to save the athieast and your not going to convice the other people there is no god just listen to the freeking song

[ithas89]

stop talkin abou this fu***ng god, there's no god, and if there was, keep him inside your souls, instead of breaking our balls, tryin to mould up our minds

[AlistairH517]

1:11 halo? master cheif?

[Shoukenlol]

the only god is the flying spaghetti monster, anyway.

[RockmanNeka2]

Our God is a Cretacious God,

He reigns from 4chan Above...

[MrOmniscient]

lol

[JASONX410]

F that God is most defiantly not mad of spaghetti. It's made out of Pesto sauce and ravioli Stephen Hawking discovered that in like '92. ; )

[NimanWielder01]

How did this become a topic about religion?

Nice pictures, Donaldfossedal. I love this song.

[MrOmniscient]

On the internet everything ends up as a disucssion about one of three things:

Religion

Politics

Sex

[markguitarexpert]

@MrOmniscient hahahahaha you nailed it on the head dude you freecking nailed it

[binaway]

@MrOmniscient 4 things. Don't forget the Nazi's. Someone always relates everything back to the Nazi's.. Woops- I think I've just done it.

[TheSevenCamels]

@binaway Damn it, I came to this video from a Nazi war march! curse you, nature of internet.

[markguitarexpert]

@NimanWielder01 ya realy i dont get it

[bigbillbrooker]

hey stop talking about religion, it's dull and irrelevent. If you like the monty python/galaxy song check out this Uke cover. search flukulele galaxy song........enjoy!

[observingworld]

This song gives a sense of proportion but also makes me think, What's The Point?

Haiti, etc.

There is no intelligent god out there either.

[timmytheevil]

@observingworld

i dissagree with the intelligent god part

and the point is that we should try to enjoy our time on this level of exstince

[observingworld]

@timmytheevil

Ah the next level.

Put "christmas heaven monty python" in youtube's search box to find out what the next level (what next level?) is like. :-)

Tens of thousands have just died in Haiti and many of them children but that doesn't mean there isn't a god and he hasn't set aside a lovely blissful place called "heaven".

Oh no.

[randomforum]

What has this song with GOD to do??? I can't get it.

[rkubarych]

Lighten up Francis.

[danielnz1]

Good video. It requires a suspension of logic and reason to blindly follow the notion of an all-knowing omnipotent being whos so bothered about how we act or think. Its intellectually ridiculous a waste of lifes time, resources and energy.

[YawpingStance]

@danielnz1 I don't know where God entered into the song anywhere. It was all simple statement of fact. Nice try at trying to sound like the ever-obnoxious 'intelligent athiest,' though.

[danielnz1]

@YawpingStance I accept tangible evidence and reasoned logic. The essence of the philosophy of nature and scientific naturalism! The Galaxy Song, squares well with reality and cosmology! And too, that an all powerful concerned God is imaginary.

[YawpingStance]

The Galaxy Song does square with reality and cosmology, but the core of philosophy and naturalism themselves, though often dealing with reasoned logic, are based on the intangible. The song, however, doesn't even touch the topic of God; that'd be you projecting. If you refer to "pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space," it's talking about alien life. Nobody likes arrogant prats complicating a simple song, dear

[YawpingStance]

In addition, people also don't like others projecting their beliefs on a song which doesn't even touch the subject brought up. You think the world owes you something because it's been hard on you or because that's how "deep" people feel and you therefore don't believe in God, that's your deal. Don't put something where it isn't.

[danielnz1]

@YawpingStance Yes, I was refering in the song to "pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, because theres bugger all down here" Fortunately more and more secular society are choosing intellect over myth and superstition, and cant easily be controlled and manipulated. Thats hope for all, and I've enjoyed a great forfilling thoughtful life!

[YawpingStance]

Ah, then you don't feel the world owes you something; you just feel the need to be "deep" and "different." Understandable. I might point out that though I'm nondenominational, I'm still a Christian and am not easily manipulated; I believe in science and reason as much as you do. I might also point out that the existences of Jesus and Mohommed have both been proven (though, Jesus was born some time in April rather than December). Though an Athiest, I despair to find you still a lemming.

[danielnz1]

@YawpingStance This 21st century is so important for Humanities future, only the right of all to be basically free enough to think for our-selves, become knowledgeably informed and then more united, can humanity survive our technological adolescence well. Lemming like, Blind-faith religion all jeopardize and hinder a more enlightened and humane future for all Humanity. Personal spirituality and humanism, I can relate. Jesus born in April is a mormon belief too. You seem confused!

[animalbar07]

fucking sick

[maromma]

love love love love love love Monty Python! <£

[Isanion]

Someone should sing this for the British PM.

(with Mr instead of Mrs :P)

[lonii]

wirds nie wieder geben in diser unglaublichen einzigartigen art. ......

[badkarma52]

this is my 4 year old niece's favorite song

[zeldagoblin]

I play this to my kids all the time!! They must learn!!!

[MeneerTiki]

Makes me laugh and sob every time.

[moosekid0125]

What's with the vending machine?

[EddynNazz]

I think its a metaphor, saying the universe is like a vending machine...

[Donaldfossedal]

so many choices

"SO MANY"

[fireball897]

@moosekid0125 Yeah, and did you see the milky way bar? The other candy bars are other galaxies, lol.

[catlife212]

@moosekid0125 LOL I think someone was hungry! ^_^

[VRPBBPRV]

Can we have your liver then.

[wormogun]

are things letting you down ms. brown? and things seem hard or tough? and people are obnoxious or daft, and you feel that you had quite enoooaoouoaaah!

[daltonh4]

I feel small. Good tune though.

[wiscokiddd]

It makes me feel big because there is all this stuff to entertain and amuse just for me little kenny boy.

[joe22294]

great song and slideshow

100,000th view btw

[Lozzeii]

Its 19 miles a second right?? just cos the pic says 90 :S

[L3dtube]

jeah have to say the candy machine really did it there and so on .. ^-^

[jasperminer]

now can we have your liver

[Konsolero82]

lol nice comparison ... the universe with a candy machine 5 stars

[MasterGregChef]

As a writer and a sea cow with morals, I have to say. Either everything is ok to write and joke about; or nothing is.

[AlienScientist]

Great song, Great post too!

I remember this from "the meaning of life"

[loveleona123]

heh heh wizz

[bexxie2k8]

omg this a mint song must get it 4 my ringtone my science teacher plays it everyday its propa mint

[gasmmusic]

Every single thing in this song is true. Especially the last two lines

"And pray there's other intellegent life somewhere out in space,

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

[AtheistCanuck]

actually we are rotating the center of the galaxy at 250,000 miles an hour, and 6 million miles a day, about but the song is otherwise very close to accurate.

[athull08]

The song never says how fast we're rotating around galactic central point.

It just says we're 30000 light years from it, and go around it every 200000000 years.

[CallherBetty]

ya so do the math

[athull08]

My comment was taken out of context. It was a reply to AtheistCanuck.

[TastefullyMad]

@gasmmusic i must disagree w/ u there, we had monty python didn't we?

[JO3L7113]

we had it played in physic on friday :L such a good song

[MrThijs23]

the crew of atlantis woke up with this song this morning:P

[swimfa42n]

Insignificance attack! quick someone make me feel important.

[channyrose]

You're so great!

[inspectorcal]

your important

[buffer545]

I love you

.....

wat?

[c0nzo12]

without you, life would suck

[chrismclegless]

Our A-level physics teacher used this song as a circular motion quiz. We had to jot down the facts, and work out things like the angular velocity of our solar system around galactic central point.

[litteboxer]

lol, i used to listen to this song when i was little. this brings me back.

[mrpatty29]

same =D

physics teacher recently put it on in clas :P

[darrienluvr]

XD nice. . .

[MANSLAYERSMI]

all of you seem to say u had it at school... so did i! however they censored the word bugger :L

[myfriendsarenoobs]

when i was in 8th grade my teacher played this everyday when we learned astronomy

[chanal05]

Ma Science Teacher Showed Dis 2 My Class Once

I was Gonna End Up Dancing On The Table XD

But I Didnt Coz Ma Class Will Think Ive Gone Loco!

[Warriorofhyrule]

The thing is to not care what others think. If you think it'll get a laugh, do it. What if Monty Python worried about what others thought?

[jhonwanegasey]

if they did not think about what people thought then how could they offend them so well and be funny doing it

[Warriorofhyrule]

My point is that they wouldn't have done anything if they worried about people thinking that they are weird or offensive

[jhonwanegasey]

weird and offensive thats monty phyton.I sentense you to be hung by the neck till u cheer up now go away or i shal taunt u a second time

[Megzi95]

our teacher used this in Science to teach us facts about space! and it really worked!!

[chessdawgz]

Whenever I hear this song, it makes me sad humanity can't get it's shit together...

[SSXtrikE]

It reminds me how small I am, and how much I still need to get in touch with.

[melvajbro]

Love IT

[Spellcaster94]

......How amazingly unlikely is your birth.....wow.

[stegaflaps]

.............and pray that theres intelligent life somewhere out in space, cause theres bugger all down here on earth!

[BeduinBrother]

great song! i use to think at this and "bright side of life" when something goes wrong

[TheJesus1986]

This song makes you think.

[kickar]

Definetly

[AtheistCanuck]

This is a wonderful song.

[armaitymistry]

This is a very beautiful song.

[Dalvid]

brill i love monty python

[Damianasdfg]

Only a true science GEEK could like this song.

[ColeNorCal]

Its the way that he sings it you freaking idiot, not the lyrics or the science.

Moron.

[deathcrunch]

And only a true fucking idiot could miss all of the humor. You deserve a medal, or the chair, what-ever.

[silverbullit421]

lol a medal from the special olympics is not enought to show damian's severe retardation

its not "cyberbullying" (wich is bullshit by the way) or whatever the fuck you want to call it, its just common sense

[callumAS]

Then geeks we all shall be.

[Halogen360]

This song is totally badass!! I absolutely love this song!!