New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for November 21, 2020

Take some melatonin.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson, White Courtesy Telephone please.

“Subconscious memories of Physics class, which was our Nappie time!”

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,

And things seem hard or tough,

And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,

And you feel that you’ve had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough,

Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving

And revolving at 900 miles an hour.

It’s orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it’s reckoned,

The sun that is the source of all our power.

Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,

Are moving at a million miles a day,

In the outer spiral arm, at 40, 000 miles an hour,

Of a 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 itself is one of millions of billions

In this amazing and expanding universe.

Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,

In all of the directions it can whiz;

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 out in space,

‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth!

How’s everything going with you, Pab? It’s been a long time. I hope you didn’t lose your house.

Everybody lives on a street in a city

Or a village or a town for what it’s worth.

And they’re all inside a country which is part of a continent

That sits upon a planet known as Earth.

And the Earth is a ball full of oceans and some mountains

Which is out there spinning silently in space.

And living on that Earth are the plants and the animals

And also the entire human race.

It’s a great big universe

And we’re all really puny

We’re just tiny little specks

About the size of Mickey Rooney.

It’s big and black and inky

And we are small and dinky

It’s a big universe and it’s ours

And we’re part of a vast interplanetary system

Stretching seven hundred billion miles long.

With nine planets and a sun; we think the Earth’s the only one

That has life on it, although we could be wrong.

Across the interstellar voids are a billion asteroids

Including meteors and Halley’s Comet too.

And there’s over fifty moons floating out there like balloons

In a panoramic trillion-mile view.

And still it’s all a speck amid a hundred billion stars

In a galaxy we call the Milky Way.

It’s sixty thousand trillion miles from one end to the other

And still that’s just a fraction of the way.

‘Cause there’s a hundred billion galaxies that stretch across the sky

Filled with constellations, planets, moons and stars.

And still the universe extends to a place that never ends

Which is maybe just inside a little jar!

~Wacko, Animaniacs Character

You would think that train of thought would put her right to sleep…

Okay, keep going…

So, Pab, these kinds of thoughts like to attack you, too at night when you’re trying to settle and descend into sleep. Insomnia is an over-active mind that just won’t shut up. Here’s another thought to make your head hurt. Time is not the 4th dimension. It is the Nth or base dimension upon which all other dimensions depend to exist. Without Time, no dimensions can exist. So, Time existed before the Big Bang or it could not have occurred. There wouldn’t have been anywhen for the bang to occur in. Try having that though hit you while driving to work one day. Made is safely, but was horribly distracted for days.

…Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteriesThat all started with the big bang! Hey!

Random thought?

Sleep well Your Majesty. 180 years ago today you gave birth to your first child! Happy Birthday Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa! (21 November 1840 – 5 August 1901)

That keeps me up at night sometimes, too.

By Jove, I think she’s got it!

On the last days, mark the date (11/21 this one) with an ‘!’