Beatles Song To Be Sent Across Universe

[cro-man]

BEATLES classic Across The Universe is set to be broadcast 2.5quadrillion miles through space.

NASA will shoot the song into the cosmos to mark their 50th birthday and the 40th anniversary of the recording.

The "cosmic message in a bottle" will be aimed at Polaris, the North Star.

And travelling at the speed of light, the John Lennon song will take 431 years to get there.

Surviving Beatle Paul McCartney said: "Well done, NASA. Send my love to the aliens."

Lennon's widow Yoko Ono said: "I see that this is the beginning of the new age in which we will communicate with billions of planets across the universe."

NASA will send out their message on Monday using a 210ft radio antenna near Madrid.

It is normally used to keep in touch with their furthest flung spacecraft - such as the two Voyager probes and the Cassini orbiter.

The broadcast will be first made to a point beyond the Voyagers.

NASA urged radio stations around the world to play the track at the same time to create a "universal harmonic convergence".

[NIM]

Yes, Aliens will probably dance on Beatles songs :doh: