Public Invited To Join In And Create 'Harmonic Convergence'
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- 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."
The historic event is to commemorate a series of coinciding anniversaries:
-- 2008 is the 50th anniversary of the formation of NASA
-- 2008 is also the 50th anniversary of key events in the formation of
The Beatles
-- The first US satellite (Explorer 1) was launched into space exactly
50 years ago
-- February 4th is the exact 40th anniversary of the Beatles recording the
song "Across The Universe"
To commemorate all these anniversaries, February 4th has been declared
"Across The Universe Day." As part of the celebrations, the public
throughout the world is invited to join with NASA and create a "universal
harmonic convergence" by simultaneously playing the song "Across The
Universe" at the exact same time that it is being beamed Across The
Universe.
NASA's Deep Space Network antenna will beam "Across The Universe" into
outer space next Monday (4th February). The transmission into space begins
at 7:00pm Eastern Standard Time. (4:00pm Pacific Standard Time).
All the details of how the public can join in on this historic event
are contained on the event's official website -- which also has a "time
converter" informing people across the globe what time the event takes
place in their time zone.
http://www.AcrossTheUniverseDay.com
Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney has expressed great pleasure at the
news that the Beatles song is being beamed into space -- and sent the
following message to NASA:
"Amazing! Well done NASA! Send my love to the aliens. All the best,
Paul"
Yoko Ono -- widow of the late John Lennon -- is delighted that John
Lennon's song of universal love and peace is being sent to the stars and
has stated:
"I see that this is the beginning of the new age in which we will
communicate with billions of planets across the universe."
All the details -- including how fans can be part of this -- are at the
official website: http://www.AcrossTheUniverseDay.com
The event has been organized by Beatles scholar Martin Lewis through
his Springtime! production company.
For extended press release with more detailed information, fun facts,
figures, quotes etc -- go to: http://www.acrosstheuniverseday.com/media/
Further Info: Martin Lewis (available 24/7)
323 654 7755 (landline)
323 972 7755
martin@martinlewis.com
SOURCE Springtime!
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Related links:
http://www.AcrossTheUniverseDay.com
CONTACT:
Martin Lewis of Springtime!, landline,
+1-323-654-7755, or +1-323-972-7755, martin@martinlewis.com
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