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To: Soliton

Not in the astronomy field. They are still seething because McCain called out Obama on giving funding to the Planetarium in Chicago and called the projector and “overhead projector”.


4 posted on 10/15/2008 3:28:33 PM PDT by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: autumnraine
overhead projector

I know it made him sound stupid because we all think of those projectors in school, but he was right. These projectors project a 360 degree sky scene "overhead" on a dome shaped ceiling.

6 posted on 10/15/2008 3:33:54 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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