The Refusal To Draw A Full Vagina On Carl Sagan’s Plaque
February 1st, 2010 by Ben Moreno
’)You see, it’s things like this that really bother me!
First off, if you are not familiar with what I am talking about then let me explain. Carl Sagan is an American Astrophysicist and has worked with NASA for many years . At one point he designed this plaque that was going to be attached to the Pioneer spacecraft in 1972.
The plaque was an attempt at communicating with extraterrestrial beings. Carl Sagan, thought up the best possible way to communicate with other beings and the plaque was designed for that purpose. The plaque had various drawings engraved in it. One of which was the drawing of both the man and female bodies.
Read this disturbing passage from Wikipedia:
“There was an issue with the drawing of the female genitalia however. If you look at the plaque you can see that the woman’s genitals are not really depicted; only the mons veneris is shown. It has been claimed that Sagan, having little time to complete the plaque, suspected that NASA would have rejected a more intricate drawing and therefore made a compromise just to be safe. However, according to Mark Wolverton’s more detailed account, the original design included a “short line indicating the woman’s vulva.” It was erased as condition for approval by John Naugle, former head of NASA’s Office of Space Science and the agency’s former chief scientist.”
Stupid right?!
Why would an alien species give a good god damn about how another beings genitals are depicted?! I seriously doubt another intelligent being would share the same biased opinions as NASA’s approval department. I hope that someday this plaque is discovered by another species and once we get in contact with them we can have NASA’s team explain to them how they make decisions such as this.
How embarrassingly unintelligent our species would seem to them. They would probably look at us as another pathetic un-evolved species in the universe. They would probably think to themselves, “How has this species survived this long so far?”
Now….I know some of you might think I am making too big of a deal about this, but where do we draw the line? No pun intended 
Tags: carl sagan, carl sagans plaque, communicating with aliens, mons veneris, NASA, pioneer spacecraft
