... Archives . ... Last month, Senator McCain (R-AZ) wildly dissed on Chicago?s Adler Planetarium , characterizing a funding request on its behalf as ?planetariums and other foolishness.? ... including, by the way, $3 million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in Chicago, Illinois. ... I am an astronomer, and an alumnus of UChicago (which pals around with the Adler ), so I feel compelled to point out: the overhead projector that the Planetarium needs is not that one , but rather this one : . ...