NASA sends proof to aliens that we exist, are really really lame

Sorry, Beatles fans, but jeezus. "Across the Universe" is a little on the nose, don'tcha think?

Why did they beam the song out into space? Apparently there's a bunch of anniversaries today -- the song that this stupid movie named itself after, NASA's Deep Space Network, and NASA itself.

So, 431 years from now, aliens near Polaris will receive an MP3 encoded with incontrovertible evidence that extraterrestrial life exists, and that it is unimaginative in the extreme. (Not to mention totally philistine when it comes to audio quality-- what, NASA, aliens don't deserve lossless?)