The Pioneer plaques are a pair of gold-anodized aluminum plaques which were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 spacecraft, featuring a pictorial message, in case either Pioneer 10 or 11 is intercepted by extraterrestrial life. The plaques show the nude figures of a human male and female along with several symbols that are designed to provide information about the origin of the spacecraft.

This male/female depiction is offensive and antiquated. The scientists who arranged this don't understand the experience of people who have decided to not be men or women, so they have no say in the matter.

Our lawmakers have said you can be any gender your heart desires! It's time to stop wasting money on things like national security and spend that money on retrieving these spacecraft, replacing these awful cis monuments to interstellar bigotry with a single, rainbow-tinted non-binary person of color, and sending them back out - preferably toward a low-income part of the galaxy.



Let's make this happen - who's with me?