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Originally Posted by DirtyHippieUTE
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... |
It would be a horror no one could possibly imagine. I think the probability has to weighed very carefully, however. In at least one of the holes they drilled, the air did not have enough oxygen to sustaining humans for the duration, and in another it was extremely low (although survivable). There has also been no sound that has been positively attributed to them.
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