[Peace-discuss] Adler Planetarium responds to McCain

[Marti Wilkinson]

To add to Ron Szokes comments:

My daughter recently did an article on the Big Bang project for her
journalism class and Geza was very gracious in answering interview
questions. I 'grew up' with Kathy Szoke and am still good friends with her
and Geza.

I can't help but wonder if McCains comments are meant to appeal to an
anti-intellectual base that sees educated people as being part of an elitist
group.

My mother is retired from Parkland and she noted that the Zeiss projector at
Parkland College certainly didn't come cheap and I believe it's manufactured
in Germany....Ron can correct me if I'm wrong.

It was wise for Adler to issue a quick response:  While McCain did not
specify Adler he did refer to a "Planetarium in Chicago" and the full quote
that Bob posted is accurate.

Marti


On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Ron Szoke <r-szoke at illinois.edu> wrote:

> My son-in-law, Geza Gyuk, is the head of the astronomy department at the
> Adler Planetarium in Chicago.
>
> The equipment in question is a Zeiss astronomical projector, which is an
> entirely different order of things from an ordinary overhead projector.
>  There's a much smaller Zeiss at the center of things in the Staerkel
> Planetarium at Parkland College.
>
> Geza says the current Adler machine is forty years old & is a model no
> longer being sold or supported by Zeiss.  They have been able to cannibalize
> some parts from a decommissioned machine elsewhere, but that can't continue
> much longer.  Having parts custom-made is enormously expensive.
>
> He says that the Adler is now a national & increasingly international
> resource on astro & space matters.  But in any case they did NOT receive the
> requested funding to replace the old machine.
>
> There is every indication that, when the present projector goes defunct,
> "leadership" in this area will again pass to the Europeans, just as it has
> in elementary particle physics with the advent of the Large Hadron Collider
> at CERN.
>
> -- Ron Szoke
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