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From "The Sun"

NASA scientists will turn DJs next week to beam a Beatles classic into space to any listening aliens.

The song Across The Universe will be sent on radio waves billions of miles to the North Star, Polaris.

The event, using Nasa’s Deep Space Network, marks the space agency’s 50th anniversary and 40 years since the number was recorded.

The song will travel at the speed of light, 186,000 miles a second. But since Polaris is 431 light years away it won’t arrive until 2439.

Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney, 65, was thrilled to hear that the song – mainly written by John Lennon – was heading across the cosmos. He said in a message: “Amazing! Well done, Nasa! Send my love to the aliens.â€
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Haven't they got anything better to do? It's not exactly one giant leap for mankind is it!
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Imagine the panic/speculation if they get a reply - if of course they dare tell us. :twisted:

Maybe this is another conspiracy you could investigate for us Jockey?
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The song doesn't arrive at the planet zog for another few hundred years but I believe you've already been there BB?
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And survived to tell the tale.

Of course I'm sworn to secrecy by the families who own the Federal Reserve and also own CNN just in case people find out about the secret American Torture camps and unlimited reserves of crude oil on the planet.

Please don't tell anybody, or I may have to shoot you.
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You may read more about it here: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/fea ... verse.html

Polaris is also known as the North Star or Alpha Ursae Minoris because it belongs to the constellation Ursua Minoris.
It's sometimes difficult to observe from Hua Hin due to light pollution northwards.
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