The latest ESO telescope under construction, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), is aiming to take its first observations in 2024. Construction is still in the early stages, with the proposed site of the telescope on the Cerro Amazones mountain in Chile levelled in June 2014 by a series of blasts. This comparison reveals the sheer size and ambition of the project, rivaling the size of Bayern Munich's home ground, the Allianz Arena.