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Originally Posted by verbs4us
One way to honor Mr. Berry, with a joke I heard years ago.
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Just to make it a little more accurate:
In 1977, when NASA shot the Voyager satellites into space, they contained a plaque depicting humans and the position of earth in the solar system. Also on board was a golden record containing 116 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind, thunder and animals (including the songs of birds and whales). There were also musical selections , featuring artists such as Bach interpreted by Glenn Gould, Mozart, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Azerbaijani folk music by oboe player Kamil Jalilov, Guan Pinghu, Blind Willie Johnson, Chuck Berry, Kesarbai Kerkar and Valya Balkanska 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 weak 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 a NASA scientist, "It reads: 'Send more Chuck Berry.'"