Date: September 9, 2010
Title: Astronomy Club
Podcaster: Ben Lillie
Organization: The Story Collider – http://storycollider.org
Description: The one thing we didn’t do much of in our high school Astronomy Club was Astronomy.
Bio: Ben Lillie is a physicist who left the ivory tower for the wilds of New York’s theater district. How now writes and produces shows about science. He is a Moth StorySLAM winner, and hosts the monthly science storytelling show, The Story Collider, where guest are invited to share true, personal stories of the times in their lives when science has been important, inspiring, or simply absurd. He likes to say that life is different now, largely because it is. He has also earned 27 badges as a member of the Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique, which is 24 more than than the number of badges he earned as a Cub Scout.
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Interesting hearing about the new technology for Planetarium Projectors. I was struck by the remark about how much computing power was required to run it. Having grown up going to the Adler Planetarium sky shows, my recollection is that they (at least 40+ years ago) used a Zeiss Planetarium Projector that projected light through photographs (positive transparencies, or “slides”) of the night sky. I am guessing that it did not use significant computing power, being about 15 years before the IBM PC. It would be interesting to know how Planetarium Projector technology has changed over the years, how the costs have changed, and how the new ones are better (and worse) than the ones of half a century ago (or back to the earliest projectors, whenever that was).