00:00Music
00:18We're having this huge birthday party because European Space Agency is turning 50 this year.
00:24Exactly on the 31st of May, JĂĽrgen Strauss celebrates his 200th birthday,
00:30and the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra, they also celebrate 125 years.
00:35And we approached ESA, European Space Agency, and said,
00:38okay, could we in a way correct this omitting from 1977?
00:43Of course we can. We send a signal out there from Cebreros, it's close to Madrid in Spain.
00:50They have this deep-tie of antenna, and so we are transmitting the blue danube boards on the 31st of May into space.
01:07Electromagnetic waves travel with the speed of light, so the spacecraft does not,
01:13so therefore we can catch up, and actually 23 hours and 3 minutes after sending the wave out to space,
01:21it will catch up in 25 billion kilometers distance with the spacecraft,
01:26and therefore be part of these golden records, if I may say, by passing through and passing by,
01:31but of course the electromagnetic wave will continue to travel into the universe,
01:36and will dare travel forever, and will really reach the end of the universe, if such an end even exists.
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