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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not only do they date back hundreds of years, they are located all over the planet. First modern planetarium was built in Germany in the early 1920s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planetariums

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetarium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_planetariums

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wow, so we even have them in the UK—gotta say I've found a blind spot today, guess I need to visit my nearest one

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then you can be the one that boos this time. And someone will tweet about that, and someone else will screenshot that and post it elsewhere, where someone else will say that it's only in America, and they'll be taught it isn't... it's all part of the great circle of planetarium

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

🎶It's the circle of plaaaaane'arium🎶

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You absolutely must go!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Also seems like a continuation of the ideas of the Pantheon and the Cenotaph for Newton:

https://www.archdaily.com/544946/ad-classics-cenotaph-for-newton-etienne-louis-boullee

https://youtu.be/6ZE3py2itSQ