Beatles 'Across The Universe'

NASA celebrates 50th anniversary of its first space mission

[engine]

If you’re out there in deep space, you’ll want to be tuning in at 7 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, Feb. 4 (plus however long it takes electromagnetic radiation to reach you from Earth doing the 186,000-miles-a-second speed limit).
That’s when NASA will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of its first space mission — the launch of the Explorer 1 satellite — by using the system of huge antennas that usually listen for inbound signals from space to send one outbound instead: the Beatles’ song “Across the Universe,” which as it happens was mostly recorded exactly 40 years earlier, on Feb. 4, 1968.

Beatles 'Across The Universe' [thelede.blogs.nytimes.com]

[lgn1]

Do we really need to attract the attention of the Vogons :)

[Old_Honky]

I think the idea is to frighten them off.

[balam]

> attract the attention of the Vogons

All star systems within 75 light years have now seen Adolf Hitler, but the Alpha Centaurans are just now being, ahem, exposed to Janet Jackson's Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction! ;)

[LifeinAsia]

Alien 1: "What's coming from Earth tonight, dear?"
Aleen 2: "Nothing but reruns from 40 years ago."
Alien 1: "Ah well, I guess we won't bother listening to them any more."

[Old_Honky]

Nasa ought to offer a "Gold" channel for the repeats and perhaps subscription channels for the sports and Movies, with a pay per view option for the big events.

Call me a xenophobe but I don't see why these Aliens should get it all for free!

[LifeinAsia]

Call me a xenophobe but I don't see why these Aliens should get it all for free!

Exactly! And why isn't the music industry going after them?

[Old_Honky]

I expect the RIAA already has a representative in the Alpha Centauri system.