The Beatles In Space!

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NASA beams The Beatles "Across the Universe" into space

Los Angeles -- January 31, 2008 -- The US space agency NASA undertakes an historic mission on Monday February 4th, when it will beam music into deep space for the first time ever ... this will be the first time that a pure blast of music has been targeted to go further than an orbiting spacecraft. This transmission is targeted at Polaris ("The North Star") which is situated 2.5 quadrillion miles away ... The song will take 431 years to reach Polaris, arriving in the year 2,439 AD.

To read the full story, click here (http://www.whatgoeson.com/news/the-beatles/200801311523/nasa-beams-the-beatles-into-space.html)

To hear Across the Universe, click here (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Rj-4t9drUlM)

This man (http://www.fredbortz.com/review/Photo1201.jpg) knows what's across the universe but he has a bad tie, so his views are largely ignored.

Do tomatoes hold the key to unlocking the universe's secrets? This man (http://freemasonrywatch.org/pics/tomato.jpg) knows but he ain't talkin' until you take out your check-book.

I would suspect you might find one of these (http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~shpeub/starbucks.bmp).

"Jai Guru Deva (http://www.navaratna-museum.info/Bali-Krishna.jpg), Om"

[Moonliner]

Every time this is tried I think it's rather like if the Aztec's had built bonefires on the beach in an attempt to contact other civiliations across the great sea.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

What cracks me up is that Across the Universe is one of John's pure poetry works - isn't narrative in the slightest - and it's what we decide the aliens should hear about us.

Alien: "Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes"? These people are crazy.


;) Actually, I love this song, it's beautiful.

[Alex]

If the aliens are listening they'll have heard it all before, it isn't like we've been bleeding RF transmissions into "deep space" for 100 years or anything.

It's a lark but if that's how they want to have fun, then cool.

However, it gives us about 430 years to find the ways in which we're wrong about how the universe operates so that we can have somebody there to listen to it when the signal arrives.

I can imagine, in 2439, Steve (for if we can travel faster than light surely we can live for hundreds of years) stumbling across this long forgotten stunt and demanding on a Polaris swanking to hear Across the Universe from Across the Universe (and I'll pipe in pedantically that 430 light years is hardly "across the universe" and Kevy will pipe in to somehow make a penis joke and NA will say "can't go, just added our 4,306th pet to house and she needs to be walked").

Of course, I've long had a fantasy of using FTL space flight for really stupid purposes such as finding (by calculating the wave front) and re-recording the old lost episodes of The Tonight Show or something like that.

[Ghoulish Delight]

What cracks me up is that Across the Universe is one of John's pure poetry works - isn't narrative in the slightest - and it's what we decide the aliens should hear about us.
Perfect. The last thing we need is for whatever alien that finds this to be able to learn one of our languages. With no external context, and no internal context, they'd be pretty hard pressed. Nothing more dangerous than an alien that already knows English.

[Kevy Baby]

That was absolutely beautiful Alex!

[Gn2Dlnd]

Alex, ftw.

[SacTown Chronic]

Paperback Rider?




/shows self out

[Pirate Bill]

Wait until the RIAA finds out NASA and the aliens are pirating music.

I bet they're already beaming out the cease and desist letters. Probably got some lawyers on their way to Polaris right now.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I bet they're already beaming out the cease and desist letters. Probably got some lawyers on their way to Polaris right now.You would have noticed the line of people hoping for the chance to be the one to shove 'em in the rocket themselves.

[Kevy Baby]

What do you call 100 lawyers in a rocket ship to Polaris?

Not enough lawyers

[Moonliner]

What do you call 100 lawyers in a rocket ship to Polaris?

Not enough lawyers

That's funny....

This is offensive, I mean really not in the least bit safe for work no matter where you work. Don't eat anything before you click on it type of offensive. You have been warned.

Hey Kevy. I just wanted to mention that the Dove contest is officially over so it's time you had a new tag line.

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Last edited by Kevy Baby : Today at 10:59 AM. Reason: Sorry for the destruction of a classic joke AND for any offense to the lawyers on this board - I am sure that you are good.

Stand by your joke, soldier!

[Kevy Baby]

Hey Kevy. I just wanted to mention that the Dove contest is officially over so it's time you had a new tag line. Got it: thanks! I was just waiting for something quote-worthy to come along.

[GusGus]

Ok, so the guy who started this whole thing was on Breakfast with the Beatles (http://www.applescruffradio.com/) this morning. Turns out he's just a fan who wanted to campaign for a day when everyone around the world played the same Beatles song at the same time. He picked the song because it sort of went along with the theme of the event and it had a 40th anniversary coming up (thus choosing the particular day). Then he actually looked at the title, Across the Universe and thought "Hey! I should call NASA!!" And to everyone's surprise (including his), NASA thought it sounded like fun.

So there ya go.




Oh... and my favorite part: The Beatles fan loved that NASA was beaming the song to the North Star because the Beatles were from North Britain.:rolleyes:

[Alex]

While Polaris is a fair symbolic choice it is a horrible choice if you want to actually have any chance that there is life at the recipient star. The chances of Polaris having any planets is very, very low (because it is a volatile binary pair and Polaris itself is an old star that is off the main sequence now and would have fried any planets that existed).

[Ghoulish Delight]

For the list of cosmic coincidences: Yesterday was the day they broadcast the song. Today, Beatles' guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/06/wyogi206.xml) dies.

[mousepod]

For the list of cosmic coincidences: Yesterday was the day they broadcast the song. Today, Beatles' guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/06/wyogi206.xml) dies.

Now they should broadcast Sexy Sadie.

[Kevy Baby]

But not Mean Mr. Mustard - that could get messy.