Christine Jorgensen

The Anatomical Zodiac Man

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.

Fritz Haber , 1918

Christine Jorgensen's 1952 surgery in Copenhagen ran above the fold on the New York Daily News front page, displacing Korean War coverage — a former Army private from the Bronx who became the face of a possibility millions had never heard named.