chiliean miners!
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agentundercover
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Morbyd
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It is an amazing story, isn't it? I've been following it for a few days now, since they drilled the bore hole into their chamber and found out the guys were alive.
Within a week, they will already have survived longer trapped underground than anyone else. And they've got at least two months to go (many estimate up to 4 months
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Great that they've got the 3 bore holes now so that they can communicate and get food, air and supplies. They've also apparently got access to some tunnels so they've got a place far away from their room which they use as a toilet (one of my initial concerns when I read the story
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Last story I read said they've told the guys to avoid gaining weight or else they might get stuck in the escape shaft once it gets drilled. They'll have to have waist sizes of about 30 inches!
Within a week, they will already have survived longer trapped underground than anyone else. And they've got at least two months to go (many estimate up to 4 months
)Great that they've got the 3 bore holes now so that they can communicate and get food, air and supplies. They've also apparently got access to some tunnels so they've got a place far away from their room which they use as a toilet (one of my initial concerns when I read the story
)Last story I read said they've told the guys to avoid gaining weight or else they might get stuck in the escape shaft once it gets drilled. They'll have to have waist sizes of about 30 inches!
fatphilb
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Tbh, if they got all the Big Brother contestants and buried them 5 miles underground, I'd watch that.
Johnny Vodka
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I'm just wondering how long it will be before they start eating each other.
agentundercover
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another week before bum fun becomes the norm. it'll be like saudi arabia in there. who's the chai boy this week etc?
Morbyd
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They've apparently got some motorized machinery down there which they were able to occasionally start up and use the battery to recharge their head lamps.
Now they've sent down a bunch of high-powered, low-consumption LED lights. So they've got lighting.
The people on ground level should send down some books and games or something! Boredom has got to be an issue by now.
Given you live in Ibiza i'm wondering w t f that enters your cultural space?!
Actually in London at the moment....got a bit stuck here this summer with my son and work.....
The rain is killing me.
But off to the desert on monday for Burning Man
Morbyd
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They've release some video from the mine. 8)
Story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100827/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_chile_mine_collapse
Video: http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/21613793
Fascinating stuff.
Story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100827/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_chile_mine_collapse
Video: http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/21613793
Fascinating stuff.
I would think I wouldn't snap, but on second thought would go mad a few days without my tech stuff. I would stay away from the chai boy stuff. I would just go off in a corner and crack one
agentundercover
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Is it a testament to a new mood of respect on spotlight that no one has posted anything paedo X and the chilean minors?
whats happened?
whats happened?
OK.. it's great that they got them out and everything.........But Sky News today is showing a live coverage of removal of every single one of them. I assume about 30 hours worth.
Now call me an unsensitive cynic if you want.....but Sat Nav, that's amazing...a laptop computer..that's amazing...mobile phones...incredible.
But......drilling a hole through a bit of rock?
Great they did it and worthy of a bit of national pride for Chile etc...... however.. In my opinion all a bit over dramatized.
I will now get ready to duck.
Now call me an unsensitive cynic if you want.....but Sat Nav, that's amazing...a laptop computer..that's amazing...mobile phones...incredible.
But......drilling a hole through a bit of rock?
Great they did it and worthy of a bit of national pride for Chile etc...... however.. In my opinion all a bit over dramatized.
I will now get ready to duck.
I think its more the spending 60 odd days trapped underground, spending the first 17 days not knowing if anyone knows you are alive or even if they are looking for you, then finding out it will be at least another 3 months before you get out, if at all, add to that not knowing if you will ever see your loved ones again, hold that wife, son, daughter, brother, sister, breathe the open air, see daylight. Then all of it coming to an end, only after you have been essentially pulled through half a mile of pitch blackness in a steel coffin knowing that if anything goes wrong you cooulf either plummet back to yout death or get stuck indefinately
I dont know about you but I dont think I could have handled that without going slightly bonkers, so in answer to your question, this is quite phenomenal!!!
I dont know about you but I dont think I could have handled that without going slightly bonkers, so in answer to your question, this is quite phenomenal!!!
