The Mayan calendar hoopla had to do with it not being small enough to be handed out with the new phone books
At the LA museum of Nat History they had a fiberglass replica of the calendar - it's about 6 feet tall and about 1 foot thick (I am guessing because i saw it years ago.) It's pretty impressive, but I agree, too much ado?
The radio telescope array is planned to be about 10 miles long - they do have the VLA in New Mexico that is a bit larger than the 10 miles for the SA project.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Array
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