Active SETI — gnostek

In 1974, the Arecibo Observatory was used to send the first known intentional radio message transmission into space

01The 1974 Arecibo Message was aimed at globular cluster M13 — 25,000 light-years away, arrival date roughly 26,974 AD.
02Stephen Hawking publicly warned that contacting aliens could be analogous to Native Americans meeting Columbus — and we know how that ended.
03METI International transmitted 'Sonar' toward GJ 273, a nearby star, in 2017 without any international consensus or oversight body approving it.

Corybantian dance , the type of dance most likely danced on Gymnopedia festivals (image from Smith 's Dictionary of Antiquities ).

01'Kubla Khan' was written in a single opium-induced session in 1797; Coleridge claimed an interruption by 'a person from Porlock' broke the trance.
02By 1816 Coleridge was consuming up to two quarts of laudanum per week, documented in letters to his physician James Gillman.
03Wordsworth formally ended their friendship partly over Coleridge's unreliability — lectures cancelled, manuscripts undelivered, debts accumulated.