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Who do you think is going to play the lead in the Chile Miners movie "Trapped" on the Lifetime channel next year? I'm thinking possibly Danny Trejo, Edward James Olmos or maybe even Aziz Ansari.
Can you guys imagine the smell down there? 33 guys in 90 degree temps for that long! Not to mention that's a lot of poop and pee somewhere down there. That being said, this is a great story. Those are some tough SOB's down there.
I thought seeing men fight in a steel cage was ballsy but these guys just took the man law to another stratosphere...
Not to discount what they went through...but this story doesn't hold a candle to the "Alive" story imo...not that I'm trying to compare the two. It's all suspenseful and all that with them living underground for two months but the biggest question I really had after they were found and receiving supplies with a solid rescue plan wasn't "will they survive?". It was "will they turn into Morlocks before they are rescued?". Obviously, some things could have gone wrong but I think this was as simple as using current technology to drill a deep hole big enough to fit them through. The biggest part of the survival story for them wasn't the rescue part of it (as great as it is to see them come out) imo...it was that they survived the initial incident that trapped them and were found via drilling the hole. The rescue part of it feels more like an amusement park ride with a euphoric payoff at the end. I guess where I'm going is while there was a danger to the miners...it's not like they were cut off with zero hope of getting out safely (except in the first fifteen days which was probably the worst part for them with the uncertainty). I guess it sounds like I'm trying to downplay it but I'm really not. It's a great story and it's great to see them coming up now. I just don't think this qualifies as a true miracle (like the "Alive" story) that they were rescued. I believe there was a high chance for success once they survived the initial collapse and were found given the drilling technology available. I don't think there was any doubt that they would be rescued once they were found. They just couldn't pinpoint when it would be exactly. Hopefully, what they get out of this is learning and using what they learned for future incidents making future rescues that much better. Or, even prepping the underground better in case of future accidents...whether that mean tweaking what supplies they stock down there or whatever.
just beautiful to see the reactions of these men and their families to being reunited after being apart for so long under those circumstances.
Oh I don't know about that. Every once in a while, it's nice to have some headlines that celebrate our accomplishments rather than bemoan our shortcomings.
If "Lindsey Lohan gets sentenced to 90 days in jail" can scroll across my t.v. as breaking news, this certainly can as well. At work right now but I would really like to see these guys being reuinted with their families.
It's 2010 and we're still sending human beings miles down into the earth to extract stuff? We haven't figured out how to automate that yet?
