NASA Produces Rap Video On Astrobiology

An anonymous reader writes "You've seen the Large Hadron Rap by Kate 'Alpinekat' McAlpine. Now a NASA magazine has commissioned an astrobiology rap. Jonathan Chase, aka 'Oort Kuiper', produced a six-minute YouTube rap video on astrobiology, the scientific search for extraterrestrial life. The lyrics include: 'We've been on Earth for many years and we are still producing answers; as time passes, collective knowledge advances.' This epic rap battle sees Alpinekat/CERN on top with over three million views on YouTube compared with about ten thousand for Oort Kuiper/NASA."

Entropy....how can I explain it?

[Anonymous Coward]

MC Hawking [youtube.com]

Re:wrong group?

[philspear]

I guess now all first posts are marked offtopic? "This" was referring to... wait for it... the topic. It was definitely on the topic.

What exactly is the criteria for stuff on idle? Isn't idle just a soapbox for how stupid letters to the editor are?

Actually funded by NASA?

[celticryan]

From what I can tell, the actual rap was done for the Astrobiology Magazine European Edition (AMEE) [astrobio.net]. The AMEE credits the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA) and the Astrobiology Magazine on its front cover. NASA only contributes funding to the Astrobiology Magazine as far as I can tell.

So claiming this rap was commissioned by NASA is slightly misleading in my opinion.