Something Fishy?

RaptorRalpher

Wednesday, April 10, 2002 4:59 PM

Can someone explain to me why the beach-cam is showing the Space Spiral at the bottom of the tower, while the Wicked Twister cam shows it at the top?

Both cams read as "live".

I think it's time to call in Mulder & Scully: there may be a conspiracy afoot . . .

Ron

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RaptorRalpher

Wednesday, April 10, 2002 5:07 PM

LOSER REPLIES TO OWN POST: FILM AT 11!

Funny - Now things have been straightened out.

I guess you guys in the CP offices really DO read this stuff!

Ron

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loriu

Wednesday, April 10, 2002 5:11 PM
The cameras refresh every 5 minutes and the chance they all refresh at the same time are probably slim. They may have been testing the ride and one cam caught it up and one cam caught it down.

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*** This post was edited by loriu on 4/10/2002. ***

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Flisk

Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:36 PM
Actually the cameras refresh every minute if you watch the time. But the construction cam is 5 finutes behind for some reason. It's like they are watching the pictures and deleting certain pictures.

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Lee

Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:45 PM
There's the start of another crazy rumor if I ever saw one. ^_~

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Flisk

Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:51 PM
Yeah I can see that Lee :)

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Fordman

Wednesday, April 10, 2002 8:00 PM
Uh oh... What's CP hiding from us now?

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RaptorTwister

Wednesday, April 10, 2002 8:03 PM

Somebody has been watching the X-Files a tad too much.

"I'm Having Trouble Trying To Sleep;I'm Counting Sheep But Running Out;As Time Ticks By;Still I Try;No Rest For Crosstops In My Mind;On My Own Here We Go."

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GeminiSpeed

Wednesday, April 10, 2002 9:19 PM

Around 2pm today, the construction cam showed the que line completely empty...the way it looked last week

At 230, everything was back....did they maybe loop in old footage so they could test the ride...

did anyone else see this?

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Flisk

Wednesday, April 10, 2002 9:22 PM
That stinks. I was watching the webcam intently because there were a bunch of peopl egathering around WT between 145 and 2:15 I was dondering what was going on. I watched a few minutes more hoping to see something but the next thing I knew I was waking up at 10 to 3pm.

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CoasterBud

Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:48 PM
I noticed that just before 2:00 the cam stopped refreshing. I believe it was stuck at 1:56:31 (IIRC), but I didn't get a chance to view it after that.
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Brent02

Wednesday, April 10, 2002 11:41 PM
I really do wonder if they stop the camera from refreshing when they are testing. On more than one occasion I have seen the cam 15-20 minutes or more behind. Perhaps if they are in fact doing that, they are doing it because there hasn't been an official announcement that they have begun testing. I'm assuming the next diary entry will be about that, then they might let us see the testing. My .02

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Flisk

Wednesday, April 10, 2002 11:48 PM

I wouldn't be suprised if they updated the pictures, but if there wasn't a diary entry until after opening day.

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putergeek

Friday, April 12, 2002 1:57 PM

The cameras refresh every minute and the time that is on the picture is probably taken from the computer they are being processed on. The computer times are not in sync.

Also, I would doubt they have all the cameras taking pictures at exactly the same time. Doing this would cause refresh times to lag and you would get many more dead link errors. My guess is they keep the times off sync to help with all this.

my 2 cents....

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