FIRST-EVER TRANSMISSION OF MUSIC TO FAR END OF GALAXY Across The Universe Goes Across The Universe!
Public Invited To Join In And Create 'Harmonic Convergence'
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."
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