Mock

Today we watched "The Dark Side of the Moon" and a Monty Python skit on the universe. "Dark Side of the Moon" is a mock film and gives many hints through out the film. I did not believe it from the beginning so I did not clue in much to the hints. Some of the hints were the CIA director speaking another language, interviews that make you think the people are all in the same room, but they never show two people in the same frame and they never let you here the questions so you could edit in anything you want. This film was completely fake while on the other hand the monty python clip was full of facts. Almost all of the lyrics in the song are true/ or at least close to. These clips really make you think about what is real and what is not. If this comedy was giving us real facts and the documentary wasn't. How do we know what the truth is?



Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolvingAnd 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 seeAre moving at a million miles a dayIn 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 billionsIn this amazing and expanding universe.The universe itself keeps on expanding and expandingIn all of the directions it can whizzAs 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.