NASA To Launch Beatles Tune Into Space

After two exploded Space Shuttles, is this really what NASA should be focusing their efforts upon?

WASHINGTON - The Beatles are about to become radio stars in a whole new way. NASA on Monday will broadcast the Beatles' song "Across the Universe" across the galaxy to Polaris, the North Star.

This first-ever beaming of a radio song by the space agency directly into deep space is nostalgia-driven. It celebrates the 40th anniversary of the song, the 45th anniversary of NASA's Deep Space Network, which communicates with its distant probes, and the 50th anniversary of NASA. (H/T - Yahoo!)

Can they send the remaining Beatles into space as well? I may piss off a lot of people with this, but I think the Beatles are the most overrated musical group in history. Sure, their early stuff was entertaining enough, but after the first or second album, we were bored to tears with crap like Hey Jude and Across the frakkin' Universe! It's enough, already!