08-17-2007, 10:32 PM | #1 |
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If they stop searching for the miners...
I posted on cb about this...
http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...654043,00.html Can you imagine being one of the miners? If you were trapped in a part of the mine with plenty of air and water? How long would you want to live; in the dark, no food, and no help on the way? I seriously get disturbed just thinking about them being alive down there... Last edited by DirtyHippieUTE; 08-18-2007 at 04:14 AM. |
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08-18-2007, 02:03 AM | #3 |
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The West Virginia miners last year were rescued alive on what, the tenth day?
I don't understand why in Utah they are drilling only one hole at a time. If there were at least four options, why didn't they drill all four at once? |
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08-18-2007, 04:19 AM | #5 |
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This blurb about the 12 miners in that case really got me...
"...it was the long delay in getting to miners that caused 12 deaths in the Sago coal mine disaster in January 2006. In that case, there was no collapse, but rather an explosion in the West Virginia mine. If those miners had had outside communication, they might have known that their way out was unblocked and that no fire was in their path, that they could have walked out easily. Instead, they built a barricade to protect against toxic air, hunkered down and waited for rescue — but it never came, as mine officials were slow to gather a crew and to enter tunnels whose safety they couldn't ascertain. The 12 miners died of carbon monoxide poisoning." They didn't make much of that on the news... That the dudes could have just gotten up and walked out... I'd like to know more about that... If they could have just walked out then why didn't somebody just walk in and get them? So sad... It seriously gives me the creeps... Sitting in the dark, waiting, hungry, and not knowing if you'll ever be rescued... If they are not to be rescued (which it appears that they will not) I hope they died in the original collapse. |
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I'm not suggesting that's an automatic recipe to give up, but given that 3 men just died in the effort suggests that it has to be weighed very seriously. I'm a little disappointed (though in their grief, I can understand it) that after two weeks and 3 additional deaths, the growing pessimism among those leading the rescue effort is being decried by the families. We can debate and/or doubt the mine's original safety, but I don't think anyone can claim that not every effort has been leveraged in their behalf since the accident happened. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1 |
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