NASA will transmit The Beatles song Across the Universe through the Deep Space Network – a network of antennas – next week making it the first song ever to be beamed directly into space. It kind of makes you think. What will the aliens make of the lyrics
Images of broken light which
dance before me like a million eyes
They call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a
restless wind inside a letter box
they tumble blindly as
they make their way across the universe
I wonder if the collecting societies are already working out what NASA should be paying the Beatles in royalties?