Cultural References
The Big Ear was listed in the 1995 Guinness Book of World Records under the category of "Longest Extraterrestrial Search":
The longest-running full-scale SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) project is the Ohio SETI Program at Ohio State University in Columbus, OH, which has searched the universe for extraterrestrial radio signals for 22 years, beginning in 1973.
The observatory was parodied in bestselling game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas by the presence of a large radio telescope of the same name in the desert region. It is also mentioned as a tool used to detect alien radio signals in "Little Green Men", an episode of the X-Files.
Read more about this topic: Ohio State University Radio Observatory
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“Hard times accounted in large part for the fact that the exposition was a financial disappointment in its first year, but Sally Rand and her fan dancers accomplished what applied science had failed to do, and the exposition closed in 1934 with a net profit, which was donated to participating cultural institutions, excluding Sally Rand.”
—For the State of Illinois, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)