John Pavlus on February 4, 2008 11:36 AM
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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?)
John Pavlus on January 28, 2008 10:42 AM
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OK, I lied. But in celebration of Lego's fiftieth anniversary, I COULD have made photosynthesis-- or at least the molecules involved.
Most of us are familiar with the robotics/programming-centric Mindstorms imprint of Legos, but they also have a whole division dedicated to science-tastic models. The "life-sciences" section has badass double helixes and chromosomes, in addition to the aforementioned plant life process.
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