Beatles to travel 'Across the Universe'
The Beatles' classic 'Across the Universe' is to turn the first base e'er song to be beamed straight into outer space next week, National Aeronautics and Space Administration has confirmed.
Paul McCartney said it was an "amazing" achievement and John Lennon's widow woman Yoko Yoko Ono called it the "beginning of a freshly age".
The transmission of the song over the quad agency's Deep Distance Network on Monday will st. Mark the 40th anniversary of the daylight the band recorded the vocal.
The birdsong will be aimed at the Second Earl of Guilford Star, Polaris, 431 lighter days out from Earth, and it will journey across the population at a fastness of 186,000 miles per second.
In a message to the space agency, Sir James Paul McCartney said: "Amazing! Well done, National Aeronautics and Space Administration! Send my beloved to the aliens. Altogether the topper, Apostle Paul."
Yoko Ono added: "I see that this as the beginning of the freshly eld in which we will communicate with billions of planets across the universe."
Fans ingest been invited to take part in the event by playing the song around the world at midnight Greenwich Time on Mon night - the lapplander clock time it will be transmitted by National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The event will likewise cross 50 eld of NASA, 45 geezerhood of the Deep Space Network and 50 years since the initiation of Explorer 1, the outset US planet.
The Deep Space Network is an international network of antennas that supports missions to explore the world.
