I'm watching the miners

[FluffyMcDeath]

Isn't everyone? It seems to be on the front page of most of the news sites around the world that I frequent. I'm watching it stream live on the web. It's a pretty good feed. We're at 2 miners up as I type. Only 31 to go (plus the guys they've sent down to help at the bottom end).

 

[Glaucus]

Ya, pretty amazing stuff. Glad to see there's a happy ending. What's the feed you're watching?

 

[redrumloa]

Last time I turned on the radio they said #14 was up, it is probably closer to 18 now. Very nice to hear a happy ending for once.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Ya, pretty amazing stuff. Glad to see there's a happy ending. What's the feed you're watching?

Last night I was watching a feed through the Guardian site. That one seems to have stopped now and sends you to msnbc now, I think. I'm at work now so I'll just check in from time to time to get the highlights on google news.

They sure do like hugging everybody though, those Chileans.

 

[Robert]

I watched most of it on the BBC.

It was really moving, watching them come up one by one.
Hats off to everyone involved and I hope they enjoyed their party.

They sure do like hugging everybody though, those Chileans.

And repeatedly and expansively thanking God, without any sense of irony.
I have to confess to giggling every time one of the Chileans (miners, president, interviewers, etc.) claimed the reason they were saved was because of God, and the BBC then parroting it as though it were true let alone even remotely plausible.

Absolutely mental.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

[...] claimed the reason they were saved was because of God, and the BBC then parroting it as though it were true let alone even remotely plausible.

Absolutely mental.

God had them all to himself for the first 17 days. He didn't seem to do anything though. He sure does move in mysterious (and slow) ways for a guy who made a 47 billion light year radius universe in a day.

 

[Glaucus]

Engineers never get the credit they're due. It must suck to have accomplished the impossible only to have a fictional character take the credit.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Engineers never get the credit they're due.

The first guy they sent down in the capsule was an engineer. Figures. You have to find someone expendable to try it out on

I was thinking the other day that they could have had the miners out much quicker if they had just sent down a bunch of really puffy clothes, had the miners put them on, wedge themselves into the bore hole and then pressurize the mine. All they'd have needed is a net to catch them at the top - and some KY so they don't get stuck.

 

[Glaucus]

Exactly. If god was such a big factor in the rescue, why didn't they send down a priest?