NASA Beams Missy Elliott’s ‘The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)’ to Venus

Almost 50 years aft NASA opted to marque Chuck Berry 1 of the archetypal sounds aliens whitethorn perceive from intelligent beingness connected Earth, the abstraction bureau blasted a much modern euphony sampling into space. Missy Elliott’s debut azygous ‘The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)’ has gotten plentifulness of vigor play since its merchandise successful 1997, but thing rather similar this. On Friday, the opus was loaded up onto NASA’s ultra almighty Deep Space Network transmitter and beamed toward Venus, making it the archetypal hip-hop opus aired successful heavy space. 

Venus is located 158 cardinal miles from Earth, meaning that, traveling astatine the velocity of light, it took the opus 14 minutes to get astatine its destination. The 2nd satellite from the sun, Venus is named for the goddess of emotion and is seemingly the rap legend’s favourite planet. 

“I inactive can’t judge I’m going retired of this satellite with NASA done the Deep Space Network erstwhile ‘The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)’ becomes the archetypal ever hip-hop opus to transmit to space!” said Elliott successful a press release. “I chose Venus due to the fact that it symbolizes strength, beauty, and empowerment and I americium truthful humbled to person the accidental to stock my creation and my connection with the universe!”

Venus has been the taxable of respective NASA missions dating backmost to 1962’s Mariner 2 and volition beryllium further explored by two upcoming NASA satellites.

Back successful 1977, a brace of aureate phonograph records were loaded aboard Voyagers 1 and 2, some of which were tasked with passing by respective of the star system’s planets. Both spacecraft are operational to this day, sending backmost information from interstellar space. Should an alien stumble crossed either ship, they volition beryllium treated to a signaling of Berry’s 1958 classical ‘Johnny B. Goode’.

If ETs don’t person a grounds subordinate handy, they whitethorn inactive beryllium capable to stone retired to a classic. In 2008, NASA blasted The Beatles’ ‘Across the Universe’ toward the North Star via the Deep Space Network arsenic portion of a solemnisation of the 50th day of the motorboat of Explorer 1, the United States’ archetypal satellite.