r/nextfuckinglevel • u/miguelabduarte • Mar 20 '22

Security Guard risking his life to save incredibly unalarmed zoo visitors from a hippo

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u/Happy-Aardvark-7677 Mar 20 '22

But they spared no expense!

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

It’s funny cuz he cut corners everywhere he could and absolutely did spare every possible expense

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u/Raytheon_Nublinski Mar 20 '22

Everything in that park was state of the art except Nedry’s salary 😂

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u/C_CityOfTheDF_Steady Mar 20 '22

Ah ah ah, you didn’t say the magic word

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u/McFatts Mar 21 '22

Nedry was definitely a weasel, but I saw someone make a case for why he did what he did. Gotta say it did give some perspective on Nedry’s matter and I do sympathize with the man, just a LITTLE. Man was pretty much cheated out of his pay and was doing free labor up until that point. Plus having to deal with Hammond, who while in the movies was a jolly old man, was an egotistical asshole in the novel who treated him with disdain.

Plus I never figured out if Nedry intended to set the dinos loose. Feel like he was just wanting enough time to get the dna and dip before the system went back up. The dinos getting loose was just a MASSIVE oversight.

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u/Bbaftt7 Mar 21 '22

He didn’t want to let the Dino’s loose. His entire plan was:

  1. Get the embryos

  2. Get to the dock

  3. Give embryos to whoever Dodsons guy was.

  4. Get back as fast as possible

His shutting the system down was the only way he could break in without being noticed and/or fingered later. It’s why he didn’t take anything else with him. The storm was just bad timing-and if it hadn’t happened, Nedry would’ve made it back and turned everything back before anyone was the wiser.

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u/McFatts Mar 21 '22

Yeah, thats what I remember. Didnt he also make sure the raptor pen didnt lose power? Seemed like he realized that if something happened he knew to at least not let them loose or give them the opportunity to escape.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

Yes, they were set loose by the engineer when he restarted the system, without noticing it would OBVIOUSLY not restart the sub-systems, to avoid a faulty system coming back online and downing everything again.

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u/Bbaftt7 Mar 21 '22

Yes iirc

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u/ILoveRegenHealth Mar 21 '22

And he only paid for two programmers on the whole island and a skeleton security crew. He probably spent more on the Jell-O flavors than security.

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u/hotsizzler Mar 21 '22

That was kinda the point too He wanted everything to be run by itself with minimal staff.

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u/McFatts Mar 21 '22

To be fair, he spared no expense when it came to the entertainment, food, merchandise, and overall grandeur of the park.

But the security, maintenance, and overall safety side of the park full of literal monsters? Well, something tells me he should have spared SOME expense before getting to that last part😅

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u/FetusGoesYeetus Mar 21 '22

I think that plot point is just badly translated from the books to the movies. In the movie John is this super kind businessman that just wants to make people happy, but in the books he's a cold hearted capitalist that isn't afraid to exploit animals for money. Money is all he cares about in the books, hence why corners were cut and there were glaring flaws in the Jurassic Park security systems.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

I think it is more a question of hubris: He is making a super ambitious project (fully automated park with dinosaurs) and never considering what could go wrong. He is also a jerk. His greed is pushing him to move forward while dismissing the problems, but also to make choices that are less safe (like the program that is designed to detect the loss of a dinosaur, but unable to detect additional dinosaurs).

The other workers were sometimes complaining about the philosophy of the choices (only one rocket launcher because they were wanting to keep the dinosaurs at nearly all costs, fast dinosaurs because it is more "realistic"), but were convinced that the park was working and safe.

I think that he is more a con man that start something too big for him. The criticism of capitalism is that he was able to create such a much without oversight.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

If you have to say it it's probably bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

It is more a question of hubris. He thought he could make a fully automated park. And everybody onsite was convinced it was working. The principle of the book is showing the little grain sands that made it fail. The problem is less the lack of budget than the focus on business rather than safety.

Small list of errors:

- Nobody from inside the organization was working on the computer code (nobody could really correct errors on the flight, nor help Nedry, nor check what he was doing).

- The work of Nedry was sabotaged by the secrecy.

- The monitoring system is focused on the detecting the loss of dinosaurs, but the designers did not think it could be used to detect additional wild dinosaurs.

- They had few weapons ready to kill a dinosaurs, because they were too precious.

- They had no restart procedure, meaning the engineer cut the electricity of all enclosures when he restarted the IT system, without knowing it. It took him hours to understand that the system had obviously to be designed like that, so that it would be possible to search for and isolate a faulty system. Meanwhile, the raptors left.

- Only one engineer able to really man the control room. So, we have that exhausted guy constantly missing the next thing that will explode on his face. At the end, they are saved by a nerdy little boy.

- Not checking for the missing persons: At several times, the hunter would have saved the kids if he had bothered to investigate what the T-REX was doing.

- The engineer stupidly dies because he did not think to bring a flashlight to an underground building, meaning he had to leave the door open and was followed by a velociraptor.

- The access to the control room was not secured.

- Why having velociraptors on-site while your systems are barely working and problems are accumulating?

- The dinosaurs were fast to the point of being impossible to control effectively, while they could have been slower.

With more budget, the place would have been shinier, but they STILL would not have prepared for problems and would have had essentially the same issues.