NASA to beam "Across the Universe" through space

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http://www.space.com/news/080201-beatles-across.html

This is really fascinating to me. They're transmitting the song at Polaris which is 931 light years away.

I remember my mother burning my Beatles' posters and fan mags when I was 14.
She told me that their music was all a waste of time, that they were nothing, nothing, did I hear? I would never be taken seriously if I listened to such 'inhuman screeching.' My father and uncle loved to tease me to outraged tears that 'rock and roll' was jungle music and was a fad about to die out because "older people didn't care for it"



of course, Mom never found out that that night she thought I was at Suzannah's slumber party I had actually gone with some older friends to Kansas City (181 miles one way!) to see them perform. Rock on!

'Like rain into a paper cup"

That tune just keeps playing in my head whenever I see a paper cup.

Wow sinsboldly you really saw them
I would have been 8 then

and another 931 years to hear the remake...

If she thought the Beatles were screechers, good thing she didn't hear death metal...

The images of space induce this kind of sad calm, it's all just too beautiful for words. Looking out at the stars and trying to comprehend this vast emptiness between worlds, galaxies, dimensions, and realizing the possibility that Earth may truly be one of a kind. The planet then seems to have a soul of its own, and I get this sense of loneliness seeing the satellite images of our world from above. It gives us so much. It only wants to protect and care for us, and we just use it all up until it has nothing left it can give, and it is abandoned and left to burn in the sun and then crumble away into nothingness.