New pictures from space have shown

that the sun is in fact a giant orange

From the 100% Fact challenge. See all 469 entries (closed)

(1, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:13, archived)

and the world
is like an apple whirling silently in space

yay
( Roxy_Hart is taking advantage of you all, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:14, archived)

it's all ok if you
just remember that your standing on a planet that's evolving
and revolving at 900 miles an hour...
( JustHere, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:15, archived)

Yay!

( Roxy_Hart is taking advantage of you all, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:16, archived)

woo!
it's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
round a sun that is the source of all our power
(~Sunny~, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:18, archived)

*tries to remember words*
*fails*
(1, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:19, archived)

cosmics.tripod.com/song.html
( Roxy_Hart is taking advantage of you all, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:20, archived)

In the outer spiral arm, at fourteen thousand miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
(1, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:23, archived)

GEEK!
Grand song, though...

Makes mw want to rent Python.
( Scoopzilla says: at least I don't like Creed..., Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:25, archived)

sad thing is
that despite having some of their greatest sketches, I've never really heard it regarded as a good movie
( JustHere, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:26, archived)

the sun, and you and me,
and all the stars that we can see
are all moving at a million miles a day
( JustHere, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:20, archived)

In the outer spiral arm
at fourteen thousand miles an hour
of a galaxy we call the milky way.
(~Sunny~, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:23, archived)

I'm doing this from memory
are you?
( JustHere, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:26, archived)

yes I am
in my physics exam last year there was a question on space - "Write three facts about Space" and I wrote out the whole song.
(~Sunny~, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:27, archived)

hehehe
there's ingenuity - I hope you scored extra marks!
( JustHere, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:30, archived)

got 81%
81% of fact!

actually, I was really hoping all the facts are right. Do you think they are?
(~Sunny~, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:36, archived)

it says at the bottom of this page
cosmics.tripod.com/song.html
(1, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:44, archived)

aha
you are a fountain of knowledge. Bless you.

Edit: COCK! Some of them are wrong!
(~Sunny~, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:47, archived)

You're not supposed
to get JustHere started on that stuff...

because he won't stop!

100% of FACT!
( Scoopzilla says: at least I don't like Creed..., Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:26, archived)

That's just
taking the pith!

w/y!
( robh, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:14, archived)

twatters!
you pipped me to that one
( Analogue Warthog, Fri 24 Oct 2003, 20:21, archived)