Tuesday, February 8, 2011

The Control Room :]

Hey guys, I’m back ! I went to the Control Room. I passed a large sign saying : NO ENTRY. AUTHORIZED PEOPLE ONLY. Wow, this room must be so important. Regis said that the first floor of this building was controlling the whole island. There was John Arnold, the chief engineer. Arnold was a thin man in a white coat. Then there was Robert Muldoon, the park waden who was a big man. A park waden was a person who looked after all the animals. Regis said that Arnold, Muldoon and Dr. Harding were the important men in Jurassic Park. Dr. Harding was a vet who was looking after a sick animal. He was out in the park.

We all reached a door with a sign on it saying EXTRACTION. Regis wanted to show us how they made the dinosaurs. There was the chief geneticist, Henry Wu. He said that he got the dinosaur DNA from the yellow stones or amber. Inside of it, there’s an insect that already fed on dinosaur’s blood. He also said that they’ve been extracting blood from insects in amber for five years. Then, we went to the bigger room. We saw the Cray XMP supercomputers and they work on the DNA. They used other animal DNA to complete the chain. Wu also took us to the FERTILIZATION room. He told us how the embryos were put into special eggs, the special shells of the eggs and the temperature of the room. Next, we went to the HATCHERY room. The room was hot :(  and there were many rows of eggs. This room was the room where the eggs hatched. I asked when they become adults? Wu said they are becoming adults in two to four years.
We went to the Nursery to find out the new babies. There were many incubators in there. I saw a baby velociraptor. I opened the lid and that little velociraptor jumped into Tim’s arms. Wu said that baby velociraptors were friendly. Dinosaurs couldn’t breed outside the park because they made only female dinosaurs. After that, we all saw the adult raptors. Suddenly, the raptors hit the fence ! They wanted to kill us ! I was very scared and shocked. So did Ellie and the other people.
We came back to the Control Room. Arnold showed us how they controlled Jurassic Park. There’s a huge map on a piece of glass beside the keyboard. He showed us the tyrannosaurs by pressed some keys. He said that the system made sure they couldn’t lose any animal, there were sensors and video cameras. It also counted all the animals. Jurassic Park had 238 animals and 15 species. I was amazed. The system also could tell them if an animal died and find each of the compys. Before I went out, Regis gave us all a baseball cap with the words: JURASSIC PARK. It’s a nice cap ^^ . I wanted to started the tour of the park so I will post another post later, bye guys ;D !
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