Regular CV readers already know of John McCain's past griping about planetariums. Well, apparently that planetarium is really stuck in his craw, because he brought it up again in the most recent debate:
(Obama) voted for nearly a billion dollars in pork barrel earmark projects, including, by the way, $3 million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in Chicago, Illinois. My friends, do we need to spend that kind of money?
If you've ever had the pleasure of visiting the AlderAdler Planetarium, you'd probably guess that the "overhead projector" he's talking about is the spectacular "Sky Theater" -- one of the most engrossing, gorgeous venues for displaying visuals about space. University of Chicago professor Andrey Kravstov has a wonderful defense of the theater in a comment on the New York Times website (h/t Deoliver47):
I am an Associate Professor of Astronomy at the University of Chicago (the University that ...
