Seriously. In the movie Contact, where she’s at the observatory. The love scene with Matthew McConnehey, that bed. Of course, Jodie was nowhere to be found. They added the headboard for the movie, too.

But I can honestly say that I’ve slept in Jodie Foster’s bed.

I’ve also been under the dish (a scene well described in Where Is Joe Merchant? A Novel Tale) and up to the platform above the dish (I was guilty of joining a gang of hoodlum scientists who flew paper airplanes for about an hour one muggy dawn).

AO was originally built as a radar – Bill Gordon championed it – to study the ionosphere.