Trapped Chile Miners
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- mg33
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/…
Holy hell could you even imagine being stuck underground - 33 people - in a 500 square foot room, and know you might not get out for up to 4 months? They're getting food and some kind of health gel down a tiny 3 inch diameter hole from the surface. It's pretty riveting; I don't know how I'd manage to stay calm.
- rupedixon0
Humans are incredibly resilient when necessary, it's mind blowing though.
Makes you wonder whether they'd pump some happy gas down there to stop them losing it and attacking each other...
- mg330
"To avoid hurting morale, the miners have not yet been told how much longer they may be underground."
Also interesting:
"The government has contacted NASA for advice on how to keep the miners healthy with space mission-like rations and help them cope with the extended time in a confined space that lies ahead. It is already one of the longest periods trapped miners have survived underground."
- dirtydesign0
pass me down some drugs to put me in a coma for the next 4 months...thanks
- ********0
OMG i cant think of anything worse. well unless there its a haunted mine filled with land sharks. but fuck me, that cant be fun. i hope they make it out quicker than 4 months. people will start eating eachtother and stuff. fall from grace, paradise island and all that.
AAAAARARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH
- mg330
I'm trying to think how I could be content passing the time for four months in a dark cave with only things that could be fit down a 2" diameter shaft...
- CALLES0
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- georgesIII0
What a terrible situation but at least none of them died.
I hope they will all make it to the surface.
- ********0
long live the underground!
- ********0
I want to cry just thinking about this.
- Yeah, it's horrible. on land 3/4 of a mile doesn't seem so far, but within the earth - pretty awful.mg33
- scarabin0
pff. everyone knows chiles grow on plants.
- boobs0
Wow! What sort of provisions are there for going to the bathroom? It seems like in 4 months, 33 people could fill a 500 square foot room to the ceiling with shit.
Plus, if one of them does die, what will they do with the body? You don't want it to start to decay down there and make everybody sick, and attract flies and mice and stuff.
Man, just thinking about this stuff makes me awfully glad I'm not a miner.
- eat the mice and fliesscarabin
- i dont know if flies and mice live down there.********
- Shouldn't shit too much on their diet.404NotFound
- mg330
boobs,
One of the articles I read said that there are a few tunnels more than 1km that they can go down. I thought the same thing and figure they can set up a shitter a bit of a distance from where they are congregating.
- Amicus0
2 weeks would send me loopy I think. Reminded me of the 2 Tasmanian miners in the Beaconsfield Mine.
- mg330
I actually convinced a coworker that the only thing they could feed them was a gigantic rope of Twizzlers, and that Twizzlers had actually provided a giant 10 mile licorice rope wound around a spool, and the trapped miners would just pull on it when they wanted more, unfurling it into the room they're trapped in.
- jbasnight0
I couldn't do it, but I hope every last one of those guys do.
- Amicus0
I don't think you know what you are capable of until you are actually put to the test.
If they've managed 17 days with no outside contact they are pretty resilient.
- sea_sea0
can you imagine the joy the families have felt in knowing their loved ones are alive?! what a blessing.
unless something goes terribly wrong these men will come out alive and you have to remember they are used to being in small dark spaces. probably now that they know they won't have to eat each other to stay alive i'm sure they will be ok.