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From: "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
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Subject: Re: 'Blue Danube' waltz
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 10:06:28 +0100
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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?

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