Sunday, 10 February 2008

nasa to launch beatles tune into space



NASA To Launch Beatles Tune Into Space

After two exploded Space Shuttles, is this really what NASA should be

focusing their efforts upon?

WASHINGTON - The Beatles are about to become radio stars in a whole

new way. NASA on Monday will broadcast the Beatles' song "Across

the Universe" across the galaxy to Polaris, the North Star.

This first-ever beaming of a radio song by the space agency

directly into deep space is nostalgia-driven. It celebrates the

40th anniversary of the song, the 45th anniversary of NASA's Deep

Space Network, which communicates with its distant probes, and the

50th anniversary of NASA. (H/T - Yahoo!)

Can they send the remaining Beatles into space as well? I may piss off

a lot of people with this, but I think the Beatles are the most

overrated musical group in history. Sure, their early stuff was


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