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Post by MasterSnit on Oct 12, 2010 17:41:59 GMT -5
These guys are about to be brought back up assuming everything goes to plan.
I was under the impression that they had drilled a hole straight down to them, but apparently they have squiggled all over the place and the miners will be going loop-the-loop for twenty minutes in a cage smaller than a coffin before being brought back up onto the surface on the Earth where the Sun will fry their retinas into their brains.
I'm not bursting with confidence here. Hopefully they all get out safely.
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Post by Naitch on Oct 12, 2010 18:34:05 GMT -5
So they can't bring sunglasses down to them? Or the miners can't just not look at the sun? Or bring them up at night?
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Post by Naitch on Oct 12, 2010 21:24:41 GMT -5
First miner is coming up now. I think my dog's a racist by the way hes acting towards the TV.
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Post by Champ on Oct 12, 2010 22:47:44 GMT -5
LOL I don't even know your dog and I love him. He's such an a-hole but my kind of a-hole
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Post by Snitskyman2016 on Oct 13, 2010 7:18:47 GMT -5
One reason Chilean officials may have thought the drilling could take far longer was that they were not familiar with the type of drill that carved the rescue hole. ...
“To tell you the truth, I don’t think anyone had a whole lot of faith in us,” said Brandon Fisher, president of Center Rock, a company in Berlin, Pa., that supplied the Plan B drills. “They didn’t understand the technology.”
Mr. Fisher and others lobbied the Chilean government to let them use the drills, known as downhole hammers, which have air-powered bits that pound the rock as the drill rotates. The other two drilling operations used more conventional bits that work through rotation only.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
No thanks from Chile or acknowledgement from Obama how Nasa and Center Rock saved the Chileans.
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Post by MasterSnit on Oct 14, 2010 16:21:53 GMT -5
So they can't bring sunglasses down to them? Or the miners can't just not look at the sun? Or bring them up at night? I was slightly exaggerating. It was good seeing it all go so well for them. |
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Post by Naitch on Oct 14, 2010 21:43:27 GMT -5
Champ-My dog is an ahole. A couple weeks ago he was hitting on my wife's brothers wife. I think he really thought he could steal her away.
MS-I took you literally on the retina thing. Thanks for clarification.
SM-USA! USA! USA!
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Post by Champ on Oct 15, 2010 11:42:24 GMT -5
LOL Was he trying to hump her?
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Post by Naitch on Oct 15, 2010 12:20:52 GMT -5
Hes not a humper. But he was sitting on her feet and whenever her husband came by he would growl at him. Which is weird because those two got along great until that day.
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Post by Champ on Oct 15, 2010 16:40:33 GMT -5
LMAO. That's even better than trying to hump someone's girlfriend.
I must be a totally self centered douchebag. Everytime something like this happens(like the Chilean miners fighting to survive) it's almost as if I could give a fuck because I'm always so caught up in my own head with bullshit running me around. I didn't even follow the story
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Post by Naitch on Oct 15, 2010 20:17:50 GMT -5
The miners were cool while they were underground. Now they are just to main stream.
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Post by Snitskyman2016 on Oct 16, 2010 18:33:56 GMT -5
Naitch The miners sold out!
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Post by MasterSnit on Oct 18, 2010 15:34:49 GMT -5
I thought it was cool that when a miner got out they were put on a stretcher as a precaution then taken to the hospital. Yet their gaffer, who was the final miner to be freed, wasn't even offered a stretcher because apparently he is such a tough bastard that the rescuers felt he may take it as an insult. He's like the Finlay of Chile.
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Post by Snitskyman2016 on Oct 21, 2010 17:51:15 GMT -5
Their 15 minutes of fame are up. Now they just want the money they where promised.
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