February 22, 2008
Another sitter
Why was this in the news lately?
Cracked by: jayanth , madhur , bobo , udupendra , rajeshvj , shashank , Ganesh Prasad , Tathagata Chatterjee , varuns88 , Dibyo and nishansolo.
Answer:The Beatles song Across The Universe was beamed into space by NASA
recently” http://www.nasa.gov/topics
If you have mentioned NASA, you get the points. But, any answer which has something to do with the yogi’s death does not fall into BB’s spectrum interest, so no points there :)

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February 22nd, 2008 at 12:22 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1203711771 )
nasa beamed a morse code version of across the universe into outerspace to celebrate the 40th year anniversary of recording tat song..
February 22nd, 2008 at 1:25 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1203715504 )
For the first time ever, NASA beamed a song — The Beatles’ “Across the Universe” — directly into deep space at 7 p.m. EST on 4th Feb 2008
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:37 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1203734269 )
Jai Gurudeva Om!is being beeped in the audio cut….
Maharshi Mahesh Yogi is dead and this track across the universe is from the beatles 1970 album Let it Be,was influenced by the Yogi’s meditation techniques I reckon!
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:52 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1203735127 )
Dude… seriously… why the Bleep? Its not like its hard to find out which song it is.
Anyway, the song is: Beatles - Across The Universe
The next line in the song is Jai Guru Deva Om.
On February 5th, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi passed away, and I guess the song had that last line in it because of his influence (the Transcendental Meditation bit) on the Beatles. So, thats why “this” was in the news lately.
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:30 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1203741023 )
On February 5, 2008, at 00:00 UTC, NASA transmitted “Across The Universe” in the direction of the star Polaris, 431 light years from Earth. The transmission was made using a 70m antenna in the DSN’s Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex, located outside of Madrid, Spain. It was done with an “X band” transmitter, radiating into the antenna at 18 KW.
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:04 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1203743055 )
theres a line from a mantra in there and beatles picked it up from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. its in the news cause of his death
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:17 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1203743847 )
NASA transmitted Beatles’ Across the Universe into Deep Space to commemorate their 50th Anniversary
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:29 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1203744576 )
“Across the Universe” by Beatles was beamed to Deep space by NASA, in the direction of star Polaris, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of NASA and the 40th anniversary of the song.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:36 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1203748609 )
Across the Universe - by The Beatles
This song was transmitted across the universe on Feb 5th (Across the universe day) to commemorate 40th anniversary of the song, 45th anniversary of the Deep Space Network and 50th anniversary of NASA.
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:03 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1203750229 )
For the first time ever, NASA beamed a song — The Beatles’ “Across the Universe” — directly into deep space at 7 p.m. EST on Feb. 4,2008
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:17 am, GMT -0800 ( 1203758257 )
“Across the Universe” song by the Beatles beamed by NASA directly into space on 4th Feb,aimed at North Star Polaris.
Regards,
Tathagata Chatterjee
February 23rd, 2008 at 2:41 am, GMT -0800 ( 1203763318 )
Across The Universe by The Beatles..
This song was transmitted towards the star Polaris on Feb 5th this year to mark the 40th anniversary of the song..
February 23rd, 2008 at 4:09 am, GMT -0800 ( 1203768554 )
This will be the song which NASA will beam ‘Across the Universe’ towards Polaris to celebrate some 50th anniversary business.
Feb 4 has been declared ‘Across the Universe’ day.
February 23rd, 2008 at 6:07 am, GMT -0800 ( 1203775674 )
death of Maharishi Mahesh yogi.the revered guru of the beatles.
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:19 am, GMT -0800 ( 1203783598 )
Across the Universe- The Beatles, and the whole NASA beaming this song funda.
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:41 am, GMT -0800 ( 1203788494 )
john Lennon- Beatles