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  • 'Blue Danube' waltz

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 26 12:46:43 2025
    The European Space Agency will beam the famous 'Blue Danube' waltz
    into space

    Johann Strauss II's popular orchestral piece "By the Beautiful Blue
    Danube" has been inextricably linked to space since it was used in the
    1968 classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

    The waltz played as a fictional spaceship docks with a space station,
    with expansive views of the Earth and the distant stars.

    This week, the piece will take a more literal place among the stars
    when the European Space Agency broadcasts it into space.

    On Saturday, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra will perform the piece
    live, while a radio antenna in Spain beams the music out

    https://www.npr.org/2025/05/26/nx-s1-5411771/blue-danube-strauss-music-space-esa

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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@21:1/5 to JAB on Fri May 30 10:06:28 2025
    On Mon, 26 May 2025 12:46:43 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    The European Space Agency will beam the famous 'Blue Danube' waltz
    into space

    Johann Strauss II's popular orchestral piece "By the Beautiful Blue
    Danube" has been inextricably linked to space since it was used in the
    1968 classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

    The waltz played as a fictional spaceship docks with a space station,
    with expansive views of the Earth and the distant stars.

    This week, the piece will take a more literal place among the stars
    when the European Space Agency broadcasts it into space.

    On Saturday, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra will perform the piece
    live, while a radio antenna in Spain beams the music out

    https://www.npr.org/2025/05/26/nx-s1-5411771/blue-danube-strauss-music-space-esa

    But will the aliens have the right listening devices?

    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to John" on Fri May 30 18:02:09 2025
    On Fri, 30 May 2025 10:06:28 +0100
    "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

    On Saturday, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra will perform the piece
    live, while a radio antenna in Spain beams the music out

    https://www.npr.org/2025/05/26/nx-s1-5411771/blue-danube-strauss-music-space-esa

    But will the aliens have the right listening devices?

    Or will they be a peaceful race who can only be turned into raving,
    homicidal maniacs by a single note played at a very specific
    frequency? ... guess we'll know soon enough!

    439 Hz! You should have known better! Now you will die!

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to admin@127.0.0.1 on Fri May 30 20:33:02 2025
    On Fri, 30 May 2025 10:06:28 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

    But will the aliens have the right listening devices?

    Physics is physics, so advanced homo sapiens, living in a similar
    earth like environment, would have the tech means to do so.

    alien - a creature from outer space; extraterrestrial
    creature - an animal, as distinct from a human being.
    homo sapien - 'wise man' in Latin.

    Homo sapiens are homo sapiens, not creatures...

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