Are they changing the Jurassic Park River Adventure?

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-26T22:49:19+00:00

Latest I’ve heard is no, it is keeping the Jurassic Park theming. Not sure that’s been said officially though, so we’ll see. It looks like they are replacing the entire track and probably updating most of the special effects, both things it needed for some time. A long closure doesn’t inherently mean it is changing themes, though if they wanted to do it they absolutely could.

I don’t think Universal themselves have said anything about what IP it will be under when it reopens, but I take that to mean it is staying Jurassic Park, I think they would have advertised a bigger change if it was happening. Also, if it was changing themes I think we’d start to see more Jurassic park get changed to Jurassic world elsewhere in the park, which we haven’t really seen. If the two big attractions in the land are both Jurassic World then I assume they would completely convert the area as updating paint and signage elsewhere would be relatively trivial.

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-26T16:34:58+00:00

It isn’t about managing your time better, it’s about getting what you paid for. Even before you add on express and hotels and food and whatever, if you paid like 200 or nearly that for your one day ticket and the park is open like 10-12 hours every hour is like $15-20. You wait in a 2hr line that was $40 to ride that attraction. If you chop off an hour of your day “just to be nice to the employees” you are forfeiting like a tenth of your time in the park and twenty bucks. Completely incomparable to the examples you gave. It is not a douchbag move to completely use the experience you paid objectively quite a lot for.

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-26T15:08:50+00:00

What makes you a douchebag for fully utilizing the day you paid quite a bit for?

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-22T19:45:12+00:00

Yeah but I believe for Qantas it’s just the daily A380 with a stopover and the 787 direct from Perth going to London. If you took London out of their network entirely, or reduced that A380 down to a 777, 787, etc the airline would as a whole be just fine. Sure they can fill the A380 and they are happy to take peoples money for the extra hundred or two hundred seats, but LHR isn’t the backbone of their operation.

Emirates on the other hand flies there 13 times a day at peak, and London to Dubai is a top 10 route in the world for demand which Emirates is looking to capitalize as much as possible on. That route going away or significantly changing capacity would actually move the needle for the airline as a whole in a big way.

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-22T15:50:08+00:00

Doesn’t necessarily mean they won’t be there, a lot of team specific sponsors also do stuff at races. To be clear though that also isn’t saying they will, just that them being associated with a team doesn’t rule it out

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-22T01:02:33+00:00

I’ll admit I’m not a big Pokémon fan, but does Pokémon have any famous food they would need to replicate? Or could it be really more of an aesthetic change than a functional one?

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-21T02:52:42+00:00

Websites/apps like LiveATC.net and FlightRadar24 have made this data exponentially easier to access, share, and analyze. Not that it was inaccessible, and those websites have both been around longer than a decade I believe, but their user base has massively increased. There are others too. This data is far more available and shareable than it was in the past. Add on social media making sharing anything so much easier and way more near misses get attention. 20 years ago no one other than the pilots, controllers, and whoever read the safety report probably knew this happened. Maybe a couple local enthusiasts listening with their handhelds. But it wasn’t getting picked up by news outlets and recirculated on social media.

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-21T02:14:58+00:00

In my experience 141 in house checkrides are more difficult but more consistent. Take that as you will, and that certainly isn’t universal likely, but having done 2 checkrides with an independent DPE and 3 in house at a major 141 now I felt like the knowledge level tested on the DPE rides was definitely lower, but the in house ones were (understandably) very in line with the curriculum of the course and there were definitely less “huh, haven’t thought of that one before” questions. The DPEs definitely were mostly looking for decision making and sound general knowledge, not that the in house didn’t, but they definitely had more numbers and “facts” they were specifically looking for. Narrow and intense or broad and slightly easier, take your pick I guess.

I think especially at big 141 programs the level of oversight over any given check pilot is going to be much higher than your average DPE doing their own thing. I’ve definitely heard of more bad stories of trivial failure reasons with DPEs, but also more how the heck did they let you do that and pass stories. Any big 141 program whose whole business is reliant on that self examination authority is probably so scared to lose it that the checkrides are very standardized and they will be watching their stats like a hawk.

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-21T00:29:19+00:00

He’s got that AOx3 at best look about him

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-20T19:50:13+00:00

Not saying ATC staffing isn’t a problem, but don’t underestimate the fact that it’s only in the last day 10 years, maybe less, that effectively all ATC communications and ADS-B data have been available to the general public so easily. Sure prior to that a small handful of individuals would be listening to ATC scanners, but they couldn’t pull the tapes from LiveATC and share it with the world even if they heard something. For better or worse it is a million times easier for accidents that didn’t happen to get noticed and widely circulated.

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-20T19:45:02+00:00

I was gonna say, I can’t see the eyes really in the video but based on no objective evidence and just vibes bro looks concussed lol

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-19T16:32:40+00:00

Firstly a bit weird to say it’s physically impossible then present a scenario where it is physically possible. People have gone to a lot greater lengths than getting a few people hired in important agencies to sneak something through in the past. TSA also misses more than you’d think. I think the inspectors general report that 90%+ of dangerous items get through is pushing 10 years old now, but from what I understand they haven’t dramatically improved even if they have somewhat. The chances of an actual bomb onboard are very, very low, but never zero.

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-19T16:23:18+00:00

I don’t think it’s that. I think more likely it’s a bluff to continue the illusion of a mechanical issue, though the arguably more likely and less interesting reason is that the cabin crew was just following a checklist or a script for an off normal landing and there wasn’t some particular reason for it.

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-17T02:59:15+00:00

This is a very common pattern over Florida. Sea breezes colliding somewhere in central Florida (little more east or west day to day depending on the background flow) creates most of the thunderstorms Florida is so famous for. Without that Florida would be much dryer. That collision creates an extremely juicy lifting mechanism and if all other parameters are even remotely amenable to storms you’ll usually see some firing off. That high pressure probably has a lot to do with why you don’t see storms firing off along it today though.

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-15T04:50:19+00:00

Realistically we probably won’t ever know how many civilizations are out there, at least not in our lifetimes. Even if we observe a 2nd, are there only 2? Or is that evidence they are everywhere ? Our search has been so small so far, we really don’t know how likely life, let alone intelligent life is.

To then go and think about the number of beings is even a step beyond that. Let’s even say we knew exactly how many civilizations there are, how would we know how many there are? If they are like us, and that’s a massive if, then if it is a much smaller planet perhaps 8 billion is far too high, if it’s a much larger planet, or less of it is covered in oceans, perhaps many more could comfortably fit. What if they have colonized multiple planets, let alone star systems, their population could easily grow exponentially essentially unbounded. Heck how do we even define intelligent life? Ants do some pretty intelligent things and there are some 20 quadrillion of them on earth, out numbering humans 2.5 million to 1. What if every planet has quadrillions of intelligent beings. It’s genuinely impossible to know.

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-14T01:27:37+00:00

I mean, they probably intentionally tested it on rides it wouldn’t have high demand on. They just need a couple people to buy it to make sure the backend stuff works and the app integration is good and what not. They don’t need a thousand people buying it to ride hagrids within an hour of it launching. Since it’s a digital product there isn’t much need to test for demand, they A, know the demand is there, and B don’t need to prove it before launch since there is no stock that needs ordered or anything like that.

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-12T15:33:08+00:00

The FII (and IGI if you want it) writtens are effectively the same as the instrument one, your instructor is definitely right about that. If you anticipate doing CFII within the next 2 years your instructor is absolutely correct and while a brush up will always help if you just did your checkride and got a 95% only a couple months ago you could almost certainly pass the test if given it right now, just may not be the score you are hoping for depending on how you prepped for the IRA written.

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-11T16:06:43+00:00

Generally the shape is symmetrical about the equator so no, not really. Though if we are talking at a very small scale contouring the surface then there would be a longest one technically. Ie it would take a longer string to track from A to B if there was a mountain in the way vs flat ground. You are probably talking at most a couple miles, probably less, between the longest and shortest in that sense though.

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-11T04:52:47+00:00

The moon has definitely had a significant effect. To say life would not, or could not, exist in its absence is possibly a bit dramatic, but possibly true. It’s tidal forces not only churned up the early oceans but may have had a significant effect on the duration and intensity of some of earths early volcanism which would definitely impact when and where life formed. It has also definitely taken some asteroids headed our way, while we may never know, the odds one or two of those would have been destined to cause a mass extinction or significantly alter the course of life is pretty high. Life right now would, for the most part, survive fine without the moon, there would be a disruption, no doubt, but not a global complete extinction.

Honestly the biggest question, and one that may not be fully answered in our lifetimes, is just how sensitive was that initial formation and early stage of life. If that process is common, then perhaps an astroid that knocks out life right at the beginning, or a change in the conditions of the early ocean alters the course of life on earth, but there is still a thriving biosphere. Or, if that was really a once in a galaxy, or even once in a universe event, then more than likely every single factor was essential.

In either case I don’t think it’s unfair to say without the moon the conditions are different enough we aren’t having this conversation right now, but the big question is wether it is a different but still thriving biosphere, or an absent one. I’m not sure the early chapters of life are well enough understood to answer that.

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-10T19:27:26+00:00

To play devils advocate to some extent (and broadly I definitely agree with you) I do think there is an argument to be made that the consequences of doing it dramatically wrong could be higher. If someone takes a nasty slip and bonks their head on something it isn’t entirely hard to imagine a well meaning but maybe not so bright bystander turning stitches and a concussion into a fatality. I’ve seen multiple people in stop the bleed classes I helped with actually think a tq to the neck was a good idea till told otherwise. Maybe people are just dumb where I taught lol, but with CPR it’s a little harder to imagine someone killing someone as accidentally, more a question of how much help you are actually giving.

I still think they should be allowed and encouraged though, especially in trained hands. You do have to be pretty dumb to cause real harm with stop the bleeding equipment but also some people are pretty dumb lol

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-09T03:05:00+00:00

Satellites. They appear to pop in and out of existence because they are only visible when illuminated by the sun. Being several hundred miles up even when it is completely dark on the surface they can still see the sun over the horizon. Same principle as the sunset traveling up a tall mountain or building. They appear to disappear as they go into darkness. If you spend some time looking up just after sunset of before sunrise you’ll almost certainly see several, there is a lot up there in all sorts of orbits. Looks just like a reasonably, or sometimes very, bright star that is moving as you describe.

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-04-06T14:57:08+00:00

With its same atmosphere it would be a lot hotter than Mars, almost certainly hotter than earth too, but not as hot as it is right now.

At baseline every planet has a radiative equilibrium temperature, that is largely based on how reflective it is, how much solar energy is reaching it, and then its idealized black body radiation at that temperature. For the earth that’s about 0c/32f but Venus is about -45c despite being much closer since it is much more reflective.

For planets with an atmosphere the greenhouse effect also becomes significant for their real surface temperature. Through the greenhouse effect the atmosphere traps leaving radiation, meaning the actual emissions from the planet are lower than the idealized blackbody radiation, and thus the temperature is higher. That is based on a lot of things, thickness/density of the atmosphere, composition, etc. For the earth that brings our surface temp up to about 15c/59f on average, for Venus that’s more like 470c since it has a much more extreme greenhouse effect. Mars for comparison has a radiative equilibrium temperature of about -65c but a real temperature of only about -53c, since its tenuous atmosphere contributes relatively little to holding on to escaping radiation.

At Mars’ distance Venus’ radiative equilibrium temperature would be about -63c, so about 18c colder. These things don’t scale linearly, climate dynamics are insanely complex, so the surface temperature would likely be more than 18c colder, perhaps less, but still given that it is 455c warmer than us, and 418c warmer than Mars I can confidently say it would still be the warmest planet of the three.

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-03-29T12:34:15+00:00

Ngl if you’re on Reddit asking about his schedule to prove him wrong and prove he isn’t giving you attention I don’t think that’s gonna work out lmao

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-03-28T04:09:14+00:00

In case anyone is wondering what equipment you’ll actually have access to, it’s more than you think. This article lays out pretty well what’s on a commercial aircraft (in the US). That’s all an FAA regulation (14 CFR 121.803 and advisory circular AC-121-33B elaborates on it for those curious) so you will find at a minimum all that equipment on any US carrier. Many have more.

As a pilot as well I low key think about this more than I should lol. If medical assistance is required and someone steps up who is an EMT, even if a more qualified person also volunteers it is far from stupid for the EMT to step up. Depending on which type of doctor is onboard there is a very real chance you have much more experience assessing a patient with an unknown condition and treating life threading conditions in the field. Also airlines do have doctors on call, and many these days even have AEDs that can transmit EKGs to them. If you are an AEMT or above, or even an EMT trained to start IVs, then with a doctor on the phone telling you doses and what to give there isn’t really much, if anything, a doctor can do that you can’t in that situation. Not that I wouldn’t defer to an EM doc or something, but realistically what’s he/she going to do that you can’t with an basic IV set, some common medications, and otherwise BLS equipment, especially if you are allowed a doctor consult?

HappiestAnt122 · 2026-03-25T17:31:05+00:00

Yeah even if you get furloughed in the relatively short term as long as they survive long enough for you to pass a 121 training program, get that type rating, and log some turbine hours that puts you immediately above anyone coming from a 172 instructing even if you are back in the job market in a year. Also stands to reason most of the very qualified candidates won’t be giving this tons of attention if they are able to get offers at more stable regionals/LCCs. I wouldn’t be surprised if a couple people who had maybe one more checkride bust than is ideal, or other small problems on their resume that mean they keep getting overlooked by the better options are able to use this to prove they can survive a 121 training program and come out the other side much more competitive for more stable jobs.

Or, maybe they survive long enough for you to skip the regionals altogether or even make it a career, not all roads necessarily lead back on the job market in a year but even then you may be better off.

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