Originally Posted By DAR <<Drill bit :Center rock inc, Berlin, Pa. Drill rig : Schramm inc,West Chester,Pa socks for miners that consumed foot bacteria & minimized infections: Richmond, Va. rescue pod: design help from NASA Drilling crew supervisors; Texas The the cable atop the rig: Germany (credit where it's due) fiiber optic cable; Japan>> Rescuers, Medical Staff and Workers-Chilean.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder I can't believe some of the stuff I'm reading here. This is one of the most significant human events to come along in our ifetimes, despite stuff like this: "Actually, no. Nice feelgood story, but it'll be forgotten by this time next week." ..and people are arguing over credit for it. Just enjoy the fact that these miners were rescued in spite of insurmountable odds that they would survive so long, much less be reached, without rancor for a change. I'm almost ashamed to read some of these posts.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>This is one of the most significant human events to come along in our ifetimes, despite stuff like this:<< See you next week then. The only way this will stay in the news is if some entertaining details of that wife/mistress thing surface ... and you can bet there are plenty of "journalists" frantically digging for same even as we speak.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>See you next week then. The only way this will stay in the news is if some entertaining details of that wife/mistress thing surface ... and you can bet there are plenty of "journalists" frantically digging for same even as we speak.<< I'm not necessarily agreeing that this is one of the most significant human events in our lifetime (I'm open to hearing why, and I really don't feel like I have a dog in the fight) but since when does media coverage=significance of an event? I sure hope the significance of the human experience isn't determined by 24 hour cable news. Our culture's tiny attention span doesn't diminish from the enormity of certain events. Just because CNN discovers after Bill Maher's show that Christine O'Donnell once had a lesbian encounter with Gloria Allred doesn't make Chile disappear.
Originally Posted By ecdc Oh, and some quick Googling reveals that, yes, there's a conservative thread making its way across the interwebs titled, "Capitalism Make Mining Rescue Possible," complete with all kinds of confused notions about how this was possible thanks to American capitalism, but how it's not possible because of Obama right now, but... Yeah. You figure it out. But it appears to be the source of post 34.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I agree that this is a significant story. Again I post: "For the first 17 days after the disaster, the miners had only 48 hours of rations and absolutely no contact with the outside world. There is no recorded instance of humans being trapped underground as long as these men and surviving." That's pretty much a "wow" from me. I do wonder how quickly it will fade from American consciousness now that they're out, though. I know I'll always remember this, but the sad cynic in me says that the news channels will be on to other things in fairly short order.
Originally Posted By DAR It would be nice if it stayed in the news. But we're an ADHD nation and we can never keep our minds on one, hey did you know the Situation was voted out on Dancing with the Stars?
Originally Posted By disneydad109 I can't understand how some one could go into one of those mines much less stall there all that time. My late granddad was a coal miner as a young man in a non union mine.He had to live in a company house,shop with scrip in the company store and when the mine shut down he was on the street. They are better men then me.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Just because CNN discovers after Bill Maher's show that Christine O'Donnell once had a lesbian encounter with Gloria Allred doesn't make Chile disappear.<< THE HECK IT DOESN'T!
Originally Posted By dshyates Anyone wondering how long the shelf life of this story is, just think Haiti. Hundreds of thousands killed. Millions displaced. And it got about 6 weeks here in FL where we have a huge Haitian population. So from the time the last miner was pulled out, I give this story 6 days MAX.
Originally Posted By markymouse Something can be incredibly captivating, heart warming and even important, and still be over. I don't need to judge this event by how long people pay attention to it. Nor judge myself for how long I keep following it. What was Neil Armstrong's assignment after landing on the moon? What was Columbus doing in 1493? Curing polio was huge, but that doesn't mean I need to read a lot about how not having polio affected kids. It was an incredible event. But its allowed to be over.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Judging it by how long today's ADD media and public pays attention to it misses the point entirely. It's what was accomplished, what actually happened here, not by how long it can be milked. From the miners to the rescuers and many things in between, it's one of the most significant human achievements any of us will be around to witness.
Originally Posted By KatieKate123 Markymouse I could tell you what Colombus was doing in 1493 but you wouldn't want to know. I agree with it being a great good feeling story. I also agree that they worked very well together to get those 33 miners out. I also wish we had a president like the one in chili. But on the other hand its over its done and I hope that those miners come out of the mine with a new appreciation of life. For those of you saying its a significant thats only true to those 33 miners and their families. Do you think extreme home makeover is a huge significant event? It is for the family that gets the new house. In other words what makes something significant is how it affects you. You say you will remember it and you probably will but it will lose its meaning to you over time. I hear lots of good feeling stories, and it makes me warm inside, and then I remember those stories and try to help other people, so that I can impact their lives like those rescuers impacted the miners lives.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 I can't believe that people want to take credit for something like this. It's not enough to just supply the equipment and be happy it worked? Why should the US get credit for this? Like several said previously, we've had our own mining disasters recently with the worst outcomes. If we could have spared them, like the Chilean miners, why didn't we? I don't think Americans should be crowing that "America saved the day", considering...
