The Beatles In Space!
 

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.

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This man 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 knows but he ain't talkin' until you take out your check-book.

I would suspect you might find one of these.

"Jai Guru Deva, Om"

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.

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.

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.

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.

That was absolutely beautiful Alex!

Alex, ftw.

Paperback Rider?




/shows self out

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.

You would have noticed the line of people hoping for the chance to be the one to shove 'em in the rocket themselves.