This week's award

[pompe]

for most stupid symbolic gesture I hereby hand to good ol' NASA"Beaming" a Beatles song "directly into space". Wow. And aim it at the North Star too. Because Polaris (a rather unlikely star to communicte with, I guess) is probably packed with aliens who will tune in to Sir Paul & gang 431 years from now. Right. Are we surprised they choose the

Comments

[jwgh]

Projecting 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' into space in 50 years will be tricky unless you have a really tight beam. I guess you could use some kind of digital encoding since nobody's ever going to receive the signal anyway.

Someone at NASA may have been taking my joke too seriously.

[pompe]

So the aliens are safe from Buffy. Silver lining, I guess.

[mmcirvin]

Something tells me John Lennon would have had some trouble with those deep background checks.

[cyperus_papyrus]

I always wonder if it's a good idea for us to be advertising our presence here. Having a read a little science fiction, you know. :)

[pompe]

They could beam Lennon's "Imagine" instead. ,-)