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Families flock to the Disney and Universal Studios theme parks in Orlando, Florida. The amusement parks maintain a focus on family entertainment and inclusiveness, which are world-famous. Disney has a special “hug rule” for little guests, and employees have training to make guests comfortable. Universal Studios has dragons and Harry Potter. You can ride the Jurassic Park River Adventure ride at Universal’s Islands of Adventure to challenge a tyrannosaurus rex. @eeev___ Jurassic park #universalstudios #funnykids #kidsoftiktok ♬ original sound – Eeev___ After the ride, the young passenger was exiting as he told his Mom, “The drop” was scary. Passengers plummet down an 84-foot drop angled at 51 degrees. The Jurassic Park ride has a fear factor rating of four out of five T-rexes from the Orlando Informer. The boat travels along an underwater track through a Jurassic world of animatronic dinosaurs and prehistoric sights. Near the end of the ride, guests experience “the drop.” You can view the Jurassic Park River Adventure Ride with a virtual ride on YouTube. The meandering ride takes about six minutes. While the tracks wind through the Jurassic wilderness, various dinosaurs forage serenely along the river’s edge. Near the end, passengers plummet down an 84-foot drop angled at 51 degrees. The incline is inside the dark “warehouse,” so people don’t realize how high they have climbed, and the drop is a surprise. The Scaredy Cat Guide rates the ride five out of five stars for being scary and having incredible animatronics. The drop category carries five out of five stars. While most of the ride seems tame, ending with that colossal drop adds intensity. Experienced amusement park adventurers would rate this newly renovated ride as boring until that last-minute drop. Please share if you have any dinosaur-loving friends traveling to Florida. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here and here. The post Little Boy Has Downright Hilarious Reaction To Riding “Jurassic Park” At Universal Studios appeared first on InspireMore.

Nearly 2,000 years ago a gladiator helmet followed the Roman invasion of Britain to be worn in combat in the arena. At some point it was lost, perhaps even looted from Colchester by the forces of Boudica, and was found again when a Suffolk farmer’s plough struck it in 1965. “We believe it is the only certain piece of surviving gladiatorial equipment from Britain,” Dr Richard Hobbs tells History Hit’s Tristan Hughes, who heads behind the scenes at the British Museum for a special look at the exhibition ‘Gladiators of Britain’ which tours in 2025-2026. Sign up to watch The ‘Hawkedon helmet’ is an extraordinary relic of Roman Britain. It may date from the period immediately following the Roman conquest in the 1st century AD. It is similar to helmets identified in Pompeii, and was probably not made in Britain. It features a broad neck guard and brow ridge, with rivet holes that would match a visor. The brass was possibly tinned, which means it would have shone almost like gold and silver in the sun. The helmet and other objects including a gladiator figurine, oil lamp shaped like a gladiator’s helmet and a coin depicting the Colosseum feature in a History Hit film presented by Tristan Hughes. A bone figurine of a gladiator found in Colchester forms, alongside over 10 identified amphitheatres, evidence of gladiators in Britain. For a time Colchester was the capital of Roman Britain. A figurine of a gladiator carved from bone.Image Credit: History Hit “When Britain became part of the Empire, it brought with it all those things that we associate with Rome, the games being part of that,” explains curator Dr Richard Hobbs. The figurine depicts a heavily-armed murmillo type gladiator. He wields a shield which itself depicts a gladiator defeating opponents, and either a short sword (gladius) or palm frond. Another item, a bronze coin (sestertius) provides a fascinating contemporary look at the Colosseum in Rome. It is bigger and thicker than a British 2 pence, and on its face depicts the legendary’s arena’s three levels of arcades and its top level. Its detail is fine. Not only can you spot small statues on the Colosseum, but also two gladiators in combat in the arena itself. A coin depicting the Colosseum in Rome.Image Credit: History Hit “You can see where all of these little sticks are pointing out,” explains curator Dr Anna Willi. “These are wooden poles that held the awnings that could have been put on on a hot day and they were operated by soldiers from the Roman fleet.” Why is the Colosseum on a coin? A similar coin was issued when the amphitheatre was inaugurated by emperor Titus in 80 AD. But this coin was issued in 223 AD by Severus Alexander, whose portrait is on the reverse of the coin. He had completed repairs on the Colosseum after it had been struck by lightning and damaged. This coin celebrated his work. He is even inserted as a small figure standing beside the arena. Sign up to watch

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The ideal arrangement of galaxies in a nearly straight line contradicts the basics of a cosmological model of the Universe called the Lambda-CDM model. Astronomers have discovered a group of five dwarf galaxies that, to the surprise of scientists, are located almost in a straight line in space, with most of them rotating in the same direction. Such features cannot be explained by the leading model of the Universe based on the existence of cold dark matter, called the Lambda-CDM model. The study is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The Lambda-CDM model suggests that dark matter, a mysterious invisible form of matter, helps hold large-scale structures like galaxies together using gravity. Dark matter helped these galaxies form in the early universe. According to the leading model of the universe, dark matter causes galaxy groups to appear disordered. That is, galaxies should not be arranged in nearly a straight line in space. However, astronomers have discovered five strangely connected galaxies that are located in an isolated region of space about 117 million light years away. The galaxies are arranged in a nearly vertical line from north to south on a three-dimensional map of space. Astronomers have discovered five strangely connected galaxies that reside in an isolated region of space about 117 million light years away. Credit: space.com Scientists have also found that three of the five galaxies have the same direction of rotation. Their northern parts are moving away from us, while their southern parts are moving toward us. They believe that the best explanation for the strange features of the galaxies linked together is that they were created from the same clump of gas. But this contradicts the concept of cold dark matter, which is the basis of the Lambda-CDM model, which describes the evolution of the Universe. Galaxies, and especially dwarf galaxies, cannot have such an arrangement. The exact distances to the galaxies are unknown, making it difficult to construct a complete 3D picture of their positions in space, scientists say. But if the galaxies are aligned, it is likely that this can be explained by warm dark matter rather than cold dark matter. This is a hypothetical form of dark matter whose particles are different from those of cold dark matter, especially when it comes to how they came together in the early universe. Astronomers say warm dark matter particles don’t clump together as well as cold dark matter particles, which could have helped galaxies form from the same gas cloud. As a result, the galaxies become more synchronized with each other, both in position and rotation, leading to their strange connection. But no evidence of warm dark matter has been found yet, and the Lamb-CDM model is still based on cold dark matter. If more such galaxies are found, the main model of the Universe will have to be revised, scientists believe. The post Galaxies Discovered That Challenge the Main Model of the Universe appeared first on Anomalien.com.