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.
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