NASA to beam Beatles song to North Star
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/02/01/nasa.beatles.ap/index.html
It will probably take several centuries to get back some Alien music as reply.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/02/01/nasa.beatles.ap/index.html
I wonder if the ETs use Winamp or WMP.NASA on Monday will broadcast the Beatles' song "Across the Universe" across the galaxy to Polaris, the North Star.
This first-ever beaming of a radio song by the space agency directly into deep space is nostalgia-driven. It celebrates the 40th anniversary of the song, the 45th anniversary of NASA's Deep Space Network, which communicates with its distant probes, and the 50th anniversary of NASA.
But if you wanted to hear it on Polaris, you would need an antenna and a receiver to convert it back to music, the same way people receive satellite television.
It will probably take several centuries to get back some Alien music as reply.
