Talk:Ark Encounter

Visiting the Ark Encounter
Jesus Christ, indeed. Reverend Black Percy (talk) 18:27, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
 * One of the worst experiences, security is tight and will chase you if you are seen as a threat. We were more Christian than them but then again it is funded by millionaires like Bill Gates. It was a very un pleasant experience. I wish there were refunds but its going to the film they are making. The Ark wasn't even the right size for crying out loud, and they put too many dinosaurs and not enough other types of creatures.-- 00:51, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
 * How were ye more Kristian? Did ye cut yer bollocks off with a sword? https://medium.com/@alysdexia/kristians-dont-exist-59f4730f6dea Lysdexia (talk) 07:16, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Fire risk
Ark Encounter is the largest wooden structure in the world. It consists mostly of flammable material, wood. It's large enough so fierce convection currents can develop spreading a fire fast and trapping people inside. See How Does A Fire Spread? Even Grenfell Tower did not contain the same high proportion of flammable material as the Ark. Are there fire safety experts around who can add a section on fire risk? Proxima Centauri (talk) 09:50, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Quick google says it was built to at least come kind of code, since they made the planners use steel pegs to hold the thing together instead of wooden ones. Might have some kind of fireproofing treatment since I really don't think they'd do that and then turn around and let them wire electrical systems into a building made of untreated timber that's open to the public. Or that anyone would give them liability insurance if they did.
 * Edit, also, watch the video above at 3:33, there's cinderblocks in it. So this brings up the question of what the thing is actually made of (mostly wood, or just wood cladding over a cinderblock frame), making it impossible to evaluate how it would behave in a fire. Nog Bogmire (talk) 10:17, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

What about 'termites, assorted fungi (dry rot, wet rot, bracket fungi etc etc) and other destructive pests and pestilences'? 82.44.143.26 (talk) 14:19, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

Commercials
Quite recently animated commercials for The Ark encounter have appeared on the channel TBS. Humorously, The commercials tell you virtually nothing about the place other than you should 'visit and bring friends'. &mdash; Unsigned, by: 71.183.118.159 / talk