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One way to honor Mr. Berry, with a joke I heard years ago.
In the early 1970s, when NASA shot Pioneer 10 and 11 into space, the space crafts contained a plaque depicting humans and the position of earth in the solar system. On board were several examples of daily life, including chewing gum, a newspaper, a baseball, some LPs and 45s and artwork by Michaelangelo. Years later, radio astronomers received a faint signal from beyond the solar system, at the fringe of our galaxy. They rushed to decode it, but the signal was so week it took them weeks to amplify it and begin translation. Finally, they pieced together the message, and held a massive press conference to announce our first contact with extraterrestrial life. Everyone wanted to know what the message was. "It's very simple," said Wernher von Braun, "It reads: 'Send more Chuck Berry.'"
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