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NASA Beams Beatles Across The Universe
Reported by Jay Cochran - 09:54 AM 2008.02.01
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. Though it has become commonplace to transmit music to manned spacecraft over the past 40 years as wake-up songs for astronauts -- 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. (A quadrillion is one thousand million million! So 2,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away!) The song will take 431 years to reach Polaris -- arriving in the year 2,439 AD.
The song selected for this mission "to boldly go where no music has gone before ... " is the classic Beatles peace anthem "Across The Universe." The historic event is to commemorate a series of coinciding anniversaries: -- 2008 is the 50th anniversary of the formation of NASA -- 2008 is also the 50th anniversary of key events in the formation of The Beatles -- The first US satellite (Explorer 1) was launched into space exactly 50 years ago -- February 4th is the exact 40th anniversary of the Beatles recording the song "Across The Universe" To commemorate all these anniversaries, February 4th has been declared "Across The Universe Day." As part of the celebrations, the public throughout the world is invited to join with NASA and create a "universal harmonic convergence" by simultaneously playing the song "Across The Universe" at the exact same time that it is being beamed Across The Universe. NASA's Deep Space Network antenna will beam "Across The Universe" into outer space next Monday (4th February). The transmission into space begins at 7:00pm Eastern Standard Time. (4:00pm Pacific Standard Time). All the details of how the public can join in on this historic event are contained on the event's official website -- which also has a "time converter" informing people across the globe what time the event takes place in their time zone. http://www.acrosstheuniverseday.com/ Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney has expressed great pleasure at the news that the Beatles song is being beamed into space -- and sent the following message to NASA: "Amazing! Well done NASA! Send my love to the aliens. All the best, Paul" Yoko Ono -- widow of the late John Lennon -- is delighted that John Lennon's song of universal love and peace is being sent to the stars and has stated: "I see that this is the beginning of the new age in which we will communicate with billions of planets across the universe." MORE Music NEWS
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