...are some pictures of the "overhead projector" at Chicago's Adler Planetarium, the one McCain referred to during the debate last night.
[From Chicago's Adler Planetarium projector stirs campaign controversy -- chicagotribune.com]
I spent a lot of Saturdays at the Adler one summer in about 1950, which would be the summer before I started high school in the Chicago suburb of Naperville. A good friend and fellow sci-fi buff at the time was working on building a telescope and every Saturday morning the two of us would take the train into Chicago so he could have somebody at the planetarium check the lens he was grinding for it. While my friend and his advisor were peering through strange instruments, I would pass the time wandering through exhibits of meteorite fragments and other goodies from outer space. And on several occasions we stayed for the star show, a perfect night sky created on the black domed ceiling by the "overhead projector" of the day.
It - the projector - has been updated a couple of times since then. That new one looks pretty cool.
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Do you remember all the addresses? What a road trip that would be to see all the places you lived. Like an odyessy! Even to draw in on a map with Google Earth links. Cool!
Hmmm, that might make a good project. The Google Earth idea. I may have a list around here someplace (used to). Maybe I could do that.
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