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

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.

Stand by your joke, soldier!

Got it: thanks! I was just waiting for something quote-worthy to come along.

Ok, so the guy who started this whole thing was on Breakfast with the Beatles 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:

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).

For the list of cosmic coincidences: Yesterday was the day they broadcast the song. Today, Beatles' guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi dies.

Now they should broadcast Sexy Sadie.

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