brkgnews
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No telling. Could have been a dried out capacitor, a belt rubbing against wiring, etc, etc. Anything really could cause it to happen.
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Fire in SSE?
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WDW1974
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So ... a bit of smoke ... no fire ... no incident ... no nothing.
Just breathless Twitter posts that folks don't vet properly, but are reported as fact. And six pages (and counting) of folks adding to the non-fire.
Threads like this showcase why 'social media' is a utter joke and they do no good for giving sites like this 'street cred'.
If you yell fire in a crowded theater and there isn't one, then you're committing a crime. But in cyberspace you can apparently state anything. If I were a moderator, I'd make this thread disappear ... but I'm not (before one of my fans point out the obvious!)
Just breathless Twitter posts that folks don't vet properly, but are reported as fact. And six pages (and counting) of folks adding to the non-fire.
Threads like this showcase why 'social media' is a utter joke and they do no good for giving sites like this 'street cred'.
If you yell fire in a crowded theater and there isn't one, then you're committing a crime. But in cyberspace you can apparently state anything. If I were a moderator, I'd make this thread disappear ... but I'm not (before one of my fans point out the obvious!)
RSoxNo1
Well-Known Member
That sounds about right. The ride seemed to be down for an hour or so. As I posted in the other thread, my girlfriend overheard the CM that extinguished the fire. We were in the area, and there was more than enough staffing surrounding it, but nobody seemed too concerned.
Also at the same time Mission: SPACE was down so Test Track was up to a 90 minute wait.
sublimesting
Well-Known Member
I was just skimming through...so......we are or we aren't getting a new finale?:veryconfu
Testtrack321
Well-Known Member
Besides being able to post from txting, how is it different than an online forum?
Figment632
New Member
Could't agree any more. IMO Twitter adds nothing and is only a negative to society.
Figment1986
Well-Known Member
:lookaroun but it's how i get my Real and FAKE news in the middle of class :lol:
besides, if SSE was really burning yesterday... it would have hit the major news networks real fast... since they sit there waiting for the word "disney" and then make their move :lookaroun
This reminds me a If/then proof from math!
If there is fire, then there is smoke - true
If there is smoke, then there is fire, false... there is not always fire with smoke... the idea stems from the incorrect saying... :lol:
There was too an incident if you care to read the thread, but I know you don't. Nothing major of course and there was no fire, but social media is a great thing. I do feel this thread could be closed now as there is no real need to discuss an electrical sort that caused some smoke in the unload area.
Another reminder, the user who posted on Twitter could've been on the ride and smelled the smoke (the unload area did have smoke in it) so the human reaction is to think "FIRE", but that wasn't the case in this incident. It's not like the user was lying, as you are insinuated.
EpcotServo
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I love how people are complaining that people are allowed to start rumors. So you find NO fault in your own idiotic for believing everything you hear in the first place?
Classic failure to take responsbilty in your own actions, and would rather blame "these kids with their twitters".
Here's a novel idea to enjoy twitter, DON'T USE IT TO GET REAL NEWS
Again, this thread is drowning in sweet delicious irony.
It's really not, but to quote the great prophet Fry "Unexpected things scare people, and smart things just make them confused. People wanna' see the same thing they've seen a million times before."
Classic failure to take responsbilty in your own actions, and would rather blame "these kids with their twitters".
Here's a novel idea to enjoy twitter, DON'T USE IT TO GET REAL NEWS
Again, this thread is drowning in sweet delicious irony.
It's really not, but to quote the great prophet Fry "Unexpected things scare people, and smart things just make them confused. People wanna' see the same thing they've seen a million times before."
brkgnews
Well-Known Member
THIS. A bajillion times over. The original was that SSE had been safely evacuated after a *report* of a fire. Some people took that beyond what it actually said, and it suddenly became "z0mgs teh EPCOT bawlz asplode!" If it's on the internet from a non-vetted source, take it as just that... an unconfirmed report. For jumpin' Jiminy's sake, this is a news and rumors forum... we "make our living," as it were, on unconfirmed information. But hopefully people aren't stoopid enough to take everything as fact without sourcing it out. Funny how lots of folks are the ones who never believe "the biased media" on major stories, but if it's on Twitter, then Jesus himself might as well have said it.
I quote Men in Black. "I mean, come on, people are smart." "No, a PERSON is smart; PEOPLE are dumb, panicky animals."
One Lil Spark
EPCOT Center Defender
Travis, this is why you are wise beyond your years and totally rock.
aladdin2007
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Glad it was nothing major and everything okay. However it does make me question something. Whats to say all those blue lights that were added (to just fill space really since they didnt have effort to do anything else) in that section of the descent wont ever short out in the same way? That contraption is huge through there and I imagine it has lot of wires above it? Just curious.
Maybe this little short that happened today will make TDO and Siemens go back to work and rehab the dingy load and unload, and think about finishing the descent. Wishful thinking I guess.
Maybe this little short that happened today will make TDO and Siemens go back to work and rehab the dingy load and unload, and think about finishing the descent. Wishful thinking I guess.
Testtrack321
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Exactly my point. It's not. We're doing the exact same thing as twitter, only in a different form and more than 140 characters.
hpyhnt 1000
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No different than the fiber optic and laser endings of the previous versions. :shrug:
brkgnews
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WDW1974
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Sadly, I did read the entire thread. Time I won't likely be getting back when I arrive at the Pearly (Taupe in my dreams) Gates.
It was a breathless thread over nothing (OK, not nothing ... just 99.6% less substance than one would believe by the first post and the huge number of responses).
Social media isn't a great thing at all. It further dumbs our society down because anyone can (and does) report anything and no one actually researches the matters at hand. Things get picked up by REAL media based on crap tossed out with these sites.
MySpace, Facebook, Twitter etc ... are basically the devil's work!:fork::goodnevil:drevil:
I never insinuate anything. I like to just state things because some folks have a hard time understanding (especially if they've been educated in public schools in most of the USA).
And I don't blame the OP so much as the breathless fanbois who followed.
A few weeks ago, I was informed of a similar incident on Monorail Coral at the TTC that shut down the system for 3-4 hours. It came via a trusted source BUT through another source I wasn't overly comfortable about who was TWEETING (God, I hate that term) info that would have led you to believe a flaming monorail of death had just entered the TTC with littles pirates and princesses jumping out of windows while engulfed.
That was far ... far ... far ... from the case.
Yet, even knowing that, I didn't post a new thread because I knew people would jump on it and that would be the result. Instead, I casually mentioned it in another thread where it got a few posts of reaction and no harm/panic/hysteria resulted.
I think when dealing with very serious matters such as this, that is the responsible reaction.
Better to not post or let someone 'beat' you with getting it out if it is real news then to make something much bigger than it is.
I know what I'm talking about here ... I've witnessed or seen the aftermath of situations where a drunk guest had a fight with his wife and washed ashore on the Grand Flo beach the next day, a distraught CM hurled himself from the roof of the Contemporary onto the monorail tracks and a CM drove a Friendship boat (with guests) full tilt into the Boardwalk dock ... and I've had to make calls on what to do with the information.
Sensitive subjects require sensitivity ... and today's social media is like the Wild West. Anything goes.
Now ... anyone know what's up at WDW Thursday?
WDW1974
Well-Known Member
You know, I hear NBC has hours of programming to fill ...
archangel2790
Member
Now THAT'S an image!
I know, in light of tragedies past it's really not funny, but it made me laugh, so I'm throwing out props where I believe they are due.:wave:
Point about the foolishness of YouTwitFace taken. And thanks for the laugh!
EPCOT Explorer
New Member
If you don't like it, don't read it, don't use it. If you do use it, use it with a grain of salt, do so maturely, and only post things of substance- No electronic babel.
That's how I look at it.
I'd rather know of "something" that turns out to be nothing, than know nothing at all.
That's how I look at it.
I'd rather know of "something" that turns out to be nothing, than know nothing at all.