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Here’s why live concert of ‘Blue Danube’ is being broadcast into deep space: ‘Cosmic mistake’

Johann Strauss’ “Blue Danube” will be beamed into space this month to commemorate the Austrian composer’s 200th birthday — and to correct the “cosmic mistake” of being left out of previous inter-stellar broadcasts, according to officials. Strauss’ 1866 waltz — which famously played over spinning space stations and satellites in the opening of Stanley Kubrick’s...

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