February 4, 2008
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Beatles song directed into deep space
HOUSTON (UPI) — U.S. space officials said The Beatles song “Across the Universe” will be blasted directly into deep space next week.
The tune will be beamed over NASA’s Deep Space Network at 7 p.m. EST on Feb. 4. to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the day The Beatles recorded the song, as well as the 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the agency said in a release.
The transmission is being aimed at the North Star, Polaris, 431 light years away from Earth. The song will travel across the universe at a speed of 186,000 miles per second.
“Amazing! Well done, NASA!” former Beatle Paul McCartney said in a message to the space agency. “Send my love to the aliens. All the best, Paul.”
John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, said she sees the song’s transmission as a significant event. “I see that this is the beginning of the new age in which we will communicate with billions of planets across the universe,” Ono said in a statement.
What’s the weirdest thing that has happened to you lately?
Comments (8)
What’s the weirdest thing that’s happened to ME recently? Reading a Yoko Ono quote on a Monday morning!!!!
Seriosly….I like J.C. Ryle, a great Christian author from the 1900s and recently I started re-reading his masterpiece “Holiness” for the first time in like 10 years. Decided to look Ryle up on this new thing GOOGLE, searching for a PICTURE of him (there are very FEW.) Anyway……THEY SHOWED A PICTURE OF HIS *TOMB*……it’s BIZARRE!!!!! Check out “J.C.Ryle Tomb”, a picture is worth 1,000 words!!!!! His tomb is so WEIRD it almost poisons me against his WRITINGS. How could a CHRISTIAN consent to be buried like THAT? It’s PAGAN!!!!
She probably really believes it ,too. I guess it would be seeing you in your African “get up” wasn’t it a light purple?
I thought I saw a cougar pass across the front of the van. The driver said it was a coyote, but the tail was too long and skinny.
Weird, lately?
Ummm…..
A bunch of “not normal” stuff, but nothing I would classify as “weird.”
Unless you asked my wife, and she would say, “My Husband.” LOL!
I just updated my site with a pic of Ryle’s tomb if you wanna check it out…..
Weird??? I am never weird. Ok, weird is a matter of opinion. hmmm. weird??? Umm. I only waited in line 55 min. to renew my lisence tags.
can’t say anything really weird has happened to me lately . . . I can think of much better music I’d have sent out there