Granted: Linking the Beatles with the space program, except for their coinciding in time, is a bit of a stretch, but if invoking one can help the other I see no problem with it.

The two events represent complementary aspects of the human condition, what we do and what we think, or if you prefer, work and play. Both are equally essential to humanity, and intricately intertwined. The enthusiasts and boosters of space travel are motivated by much more than the practical benefits involved, it meets a deep psychological and spiritual need essential to our primate souls: exploration, discovery, wonder. This is really why we're all here in the Zone, not because we appreciate satellite weather forecasts or cheap long distance calls, or because maybe we'll benefit by asteroid mining a century from now.

The Beatles, like all artists, addressed a different way of achieving that same goal and meeting those same needs. And it is important that we teach others that both these ways of meeting human needs are not in any way mutuallly exclusive. We can and must have both. That the Beatles might be able to help us with those intangibles, even in a way that they never anticipated, is somehow fitting and proper.