I just have to blurt it out: this rescue is the FEAT OF THE CENTURY.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

As in, Moon landing level of awesome.

Chile has officially graduated as a Badass Country.

[RandomThoughts]

1. yea, multiclassing rocks!!!!

Side note, I am still due beer and travel money and many experiences.

[blondeatlast]

11. Well, the best the world has to offer will get right on that as soon as they are done in Chile. nt

[seabeyond]

12. that's funny. lol. nt

[RandomThoughts]

14. Its actually the same thing.

You might not be seeing the metaphor.

[blondeatlast]

16. Indeed I'm not, so do tell. nt

[RandomThoughts]

17. I been posting about it for years.

:shrug:

Do you want me to put years of posts in this thread to explain it?
Funny thing that would be.

[blondeatlast]

20. Just explain the metaphor, 'cuz I don't get it. 33 people fighting for their lives

does not equate to one and his beer and travel money, IMHO.

[RandomThoughts]

24. Actually you understand, you just don't know that you do.

Although it is also about the rescuers, and the love of many people, and the value of every person.

The Rescuers down under.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4n9y5_disneys-the-rescuers-down-under-the_shortfilms

Yeaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[uppityperson]

27. I am amused by posters that post something unclear then spend so much time saying why they can't

clarify what they posted. Typically that includes not having the time or energy or motivation, a snide comment that the one who doesn't understand is either to ignorant or stupid or undeserving of a reply, or that they already know so why spend the time explaining what they already know.

Seems simpler to simply explain more, esp with internets communication lacking that face to face quality that helps.

[RandomThoughts]

30. I did not say I could not, I said I already have.

I am not saying you are ignorant or stupid, you just have a different way of seeing things.

That does not make you wrong, nor my comment snide, just that I have been posting it, and if you did not see the other posts, then censors are to blame, not you. If you did not understand what I posted before, you would not understand me explaining it again here.

Easiest explanation.

:loveya:


With no claim of being better or worse the you, so if you can, try not to think I meant it as you being stupid or anything.

[uppityperson]

32. "I posted it and if you didn't see it it may have been deleted"

By the way, I am not the same poster as started this subthread, am merely joining in here.

Again, simplest thing is to simply answer directly. Ah well.

[RandomThoughts]

33. The censors I am talking about are filters in every person.

Really I already explained it, and if you did not see it by some deletion censor, then this post would be deleted also, so that is not the issue.

I am talking about the perceptions everyone has that leads to how they see things.

[uppityperson]

36. Again, my amusement @ the continued "I already explained" vs simply explaining.

Ah well, off to do something that will have a result.

[Obamanaut]

38. Those years of posts could be condensed with two words: "word salad." nt

[jaxx]

2. Hey I agree.

If we ever believed in miracles, this is one for the books.

[Demoiselle]

3. It's so wonderful just to have the tv turned to it.

Did I hear correctly that over a thousand mining engineers from all over the world have been working on this rescue?
My faith in humanity has been running out lately... and this rescue has restored it.
Yes indeed, let's hear it for Chile!

[seabeyond]

6. all over the world? but i bet no one from u.s.. all over world, but the u.s., right?

good to hear... that people are as good as i expected them to, and have always seen them as.

[leftynyc]

8. What are you babbling about?

The company that's drilling the hole they're going to be rescued from is an American company.

[seabeyond]

10. american? no way. i was told by many, we are greedy pieces of shit that turn our back

and let our own die.

sorry, mad

[leftynyc]

19. Ah

Sorry bout that - sarcasm doesn't reflect well online. Those posts piss me off also.

[petronius]

21. Indeed - such excitement in Chile over the past few months, but no one even cares about all

the US miners who have been secretly abandoned to die underground during the same time period. How many is it - dozens? hundreds? Zero? ;)

There's always going to be snark about the U.S., even when it's misplaced. Just celebrate the success in Chile, knowing that the same thing would happen here in a similar disaster...

[seabeyond]

25. thannnnnnk you.

breath out

thanks.

let it go.

[Missy Vixen]

26. One of the guys responsible for drilling the rescue shaft

was on CNN late last night. He's an American. He was in tears. I could hardly tear myself away to go to bed; every time one of those guys emerges from the cage, the tears start again.

With so much bad news, I'm thankful for a happy ending, at least so far.

[seabeyond]

34. ahhh, thank you. part of the ugly we create is ignoring the beauty and blaming everyone

else for it.

i dont know why some feel the need to tear others down to raise others up. i have always felt it acceptable to raise all.... and i have never needed to do it at my expense.

thanks for the story. i appreciate.

[gateley]

4. Truly. And it's so heartwarming to see the entire world coming together in support

of Chile.

[Hepburn]

5. I have been watching on and off...

...and, yes, it is wonderful.

So nice to see a good ending to a mine disaster and not the usual one of multiple coffins lined up with weaping families hovering over them.

[seabeyond]

9. and a month early. i knew from the beginning, wouldnt be nov... just cause

we... as in people, are that good.

[blondeatlast]

7. YAY, HUMANITY! You said it. nt

[tanyev]

13. So far.

:)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

29. See #28. -nt

[cbdo2007]

15. I agree. I just went to Target and there was some construction across the street...

where they were all standing around a big thing pounding into the ground, and it reminded me so much of watching the miners I wanted to go over and applaud them.

Really, this will be something to remember for all of us. :)

[zipplewrath]

18. Well, it's a young century

I was really riveted to the screen as the lowered the first guy. I waited around until they began to lift out the first one as well. There's little doubt there was a feeling of "moon landing" to it all.

But let's be real here. They were on very "solid" ground with this, which is why they were willing to send someone down there first.

What I really saw in all of this was just what we can do when the world is willing to look at a problem and say "we can fix this". The expertise around the world that gets applied to all the "wrong" problems is embarrassing when you consider that there are fundamental issues of fresh water, clean air, malnutrition and so many others. It's sad that the best and brightest often end up working for law firms that write iron clad contracts to protect multinationals, engineering firms to make better weapons of war, or wall street firms that dream up extremely complicated finacial instruments to undermine the worlds economy.

Doesn't it strike you that drilling those 4 inch bore holes that found the guys in the first place isn't some sort of standard procedure as part of building a mine, not waiting for it to collapse first? And that a drill like they used to drill the big hole isn't on site, or in the vacinity of every mine? Isn't this like having a big building fire and then saying "see, we can build these special trucks called "fire engines"....".

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

28. Yes, there's still plenty of time to get people to Mars.

And you're right, all those things should be standard security.

[Upton]

22. Feat of the century?

:rofl: The century is only 10 years old..how about feat of the decade?

Btw, why do the people down there feel it necessary to be waving all those Chilean flags?

[zipplewrath]

35. Sense of community

It's the same reason they sing soccer team songs. It is the sense of community that these symbols generate.

It's why I always suggest that everyone watch the Superbowl. There aren't alot of things that we all do as a nation or a community. Everyone once and a bit it is important to "participate" in the same thing at the same time. It's why I still vote on election day. We do so few things "together" in the country and in the world. The moon landing was celebrated around the world, and they waved american flags when they did. I suspect the whole world is watching, and excited, about this rescue.

[Uncle Joe]

23. The miners' endurance both emotional and physical is most impressive and the all out effort to

rescue them highly inspiring.

Chile has much to be proud of and thankful for.:):applause:

Thanks for the thread, Commie Pinko Dirtbag.:thumbsup:

[Dreamer Tatum]

31. No, the feat was staying alive under the Earth for so long.

If you're looking for an engineering feat, look no further than capping that oil leak in the Gulf a few weeks back.

Anyone remember that? There was a leak, a mile below the surface, and they capped it?

[Javaman]

37. Well, damn, so much for the next 90 years.

:rofl:

[frogmarch]

39. And the miners got cigarettes!

They had to share the packs among them, but they got to smoke sown there. Wow.