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European Space Agency to Beam Strauss' 'Blue Danube' Waltz into Space
- Strauss' 'Blue Danube' waltz will be transmitted into space on May 31 in honor of the 200th birthday of the waltz composer in Vienna.
- The event also celebrates the 50th anniversary of the European Space Agency and follows a pre-recorded orchestra rehearsal held the day before.
- The Vienna Symphony Orchestra's performance will be transmitted as radio signals traveling at the speed of light, reaching beyond Neptune within four hours.
- ESA director general Josef Aschbacher stated that music has a unique ability to unite people across both time and distance, while the transmitted signals are expected to reach the same distance from Earth as Voyager 1 within 23 hours.
- Vienna's tourist board plans to rectify a "cosmic error" by dispatching this iconic waltz to its rightful place in space, inspiring the imaginations of future explorers beyond Earth.
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European Space Agency Beams Musical Message to Aliens
DSA 2 (Deep Space Antenna 2) is used to transmit a musical message into deep space. Credit: ESA The European Space Agency (ESA) has sent a famous piece of classical music deep into space “for aliens” in a symbolic gesture to mark its 50th anniversary. Johann Strauss II’s The Blue Danube waltz, known for its flowing rhythm and ties to science fiction, was broadcast toward NASA’s Voyager 1 probe from the agency’s deep-space antenna in Cebreros, Sp…
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Vienna’s Musical Message to Aliens: One, Two, Three. One, Two, Three.
What would aliens make of the waltz? That was the big question on Saturday evening while the Vienna Symphony Orchestra performed Johann Strauss’s world-renowned “Blue Danube” waltz, as a 35-meter antenna in Cebreros, Spain, simultaneously transmitted a recording of it into space. The Vienna Tourist Board, which organized the event at the Museum of Applied Arts in collaboration with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the European Space Agency, sai…
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