20071031

Trivia - What is this?


DSC00976, originally uploaded by rob-the-org.

Ok - I have been going through and updating and posting some of my pictures, and have been looking for just the right one to do this w/ - and think this is probably the best one.

So - your challenge - is to ID this artifact currently on display at the National Air & Space Museum - Udvar Hazy Center in Dulles, Virgina.

(I could have asked where it was located - but the group it was in and all of the tags on the picture should have given all that away).

Q - what is it?

A - The mothership from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

Q - what was its role?

A - It was the mothership - where the old abuctee's came out - and Richard Dreyfuss went in.

Q - who was responsible for it?

A - Director = Steven Spielberg

Q - what is it made out of?

A - Plastic models - mostly Oil Refineries

Q - what year was it created?

A - 1977