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Chilean Miners thread

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    #62
    Sir Random
    Registered Users Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Sir Random


    Archimedes wrote: »
    Oh my god.

    Sky actually have a 0 of 39 miners rescued in the top corner of their screen, which will tick up each time a miner comes out.

    Absolutely cringeworthy, they truly are The Sun of "news" channels.
    LOL, Anyone played Lemmings??

    0 of 33 miners rescued...
    Press F1 to retry this level.


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    #63
    th3 s1aught3r
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭th3 s1aught3r


    Bailey Thankful Song wrote: »
    Chill ffs :pac:

    pardon me


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    #64
    DonalN
    Registered Users Posts: 868 ✭✭✭DonalN


    Can we watch it in 3D ?


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    #65
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Will somebody record the adulterous one getting the slaps of his wife and his two mistresses when he gets out as I have to go to bed in a while?


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    #66
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users Posts: 14,966 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    th3 s1aught3r wrote: »
    There is massive media coverage of this
    Why is everyone so interested ?

    Because nothing like this has ever happened before. That many men, all in reasonable health, trapped underground for two months. It's incredible that they are still alive and that hopefully all 33 of them will make it back to the surface.


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    #67
    cson
    Registered Users Posts: 14,410 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Day 24 in the Dig Brother house.


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    #68
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,073 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    In what sense is it amazing?

    I heard on the news earlier that they would be 'taking out the most experienced, then the weakest, then the strongest'.

    I don't understand the reasoning behind that.

    They need the saner and stronger people first so that if it goes wrong they have more chance of sorting whatever it is out, like detaching the capsule and going back down again. You also don't then leave the ill ones to come up last.


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    #69
    baldbear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,518 ✭✭✭baldbear


    Have they sent the capsule down on a dry run yet to see if it could get stuck?


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    #70
    robinph
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    baldbear wrote: »
    Have they sent the capsule down on a dry run yet to see if it could get stuck?

    Yep, they already sent it down to within 10m of the bottom with nobody in it, and they have sent someone down a few meters already. They seem to be having a bit of trouble attaching the cable at the moment. :eek:


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    #71
    baldbear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,518 ✭✭✭baldbear


    Aghh it'll be 2 hours away yet. I'll be well asleep.


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    #72
    Zynks
    Registered Users Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭Zynks


    They are saying that the rescue itself will not start for another 2 hours. They need to sort out the communications gear.


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    #73
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,073 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Thought they were about to go but got longer to wait yet. :(


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    #74
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    bueno means good.momento means moment.
    Can someone translate everything else?


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    #75
    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users Posts: 17,764 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    Is it just me, or does that mining minister look a lot like Jools Holland? :eek:


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    #76
    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    is it true they sent a 40" tv down to them a while back?

    if so, why didnt they just exit the mine through that hole?


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    #77
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,073 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    BBC News had someone translating him, but his bit in english afterwards was pretty much what she traslated from him as well.

    Sorting cameras and coms, then send it down empty, then send it down and back up with a tester, then send it down to the bottom with a paramedic then start bringing people up basically.


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    #78
    df1985
    Registered Users Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    Archimedes wrote: »
    Oh my god.

    Sky actually have a 0 of 39 miners rescued in the top corner of their screen, which will tick up each time a miner comes out.

    Absolutely cringeworthy, they truly are The Sun of "news" channels.

    such bad taste, god forbid something happens to them on the way up or the new tunnel even collapses-they'll feel like right arseholes then.......



    actually no they wont, theyll flash up a breaking news thing and love the extra ratings. imagine this happened in a british mine (if theyre still open, dont have a clue tbh)


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    #79
    Loveless
    Registered Users Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Loveless


    00112984 wrote: »
    If they had just started screaming "Oil!! We've found oil!!!!" they'd have been out months ago.

    they thought if they stayed down a bit longer they'd manage to miss all of the X Factor :(


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    #80
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,073 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    They sent a projector down so they could watch a football match.


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    #81
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users Posts: 14,966 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Hmnn 2 hours to go- I'm tempted to stay and wait for the first person out. Anyone planning on staying up?


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    #82
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭x in the city


    heard that jose never clocked in, he will be furious...


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    #83
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,073 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Kintarō Hattori wrote: »
    Hmnn 2 hours to go- I'm tempted to stay and wait for the first person out. Anyone planning on staying up?

    Yeah, want to see this.


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    #84
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    BotFly wrote: »
    http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Trapped-Miners-in-Chile-Hours-Away-from-Rescue-104773954.html

    This one goes out to all our chilean brothers who are stuck down a hole or something.

    There's a hole in my heart,

    As deep as a shaft,

    For those poor little miners,

    Who must be going daftl,



    Though we can't get him out,

    We'll do what we do most,

    We go boards.ie,




    And post, post, post.



    And we're sending our love down the mine,

    All the way down.

    We're sending our love down the mine,

    Down that mine


    God bless those little guys.
    :D

    Damn the way you can only get really crappy Simpsons clips.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4zO7-rt71k


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    #85
    df1985
    Registered Users Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    i generally dont go to bed till 2 or 3 anyways so will wait around for the first few.

    vamos! vamos!


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    #86
    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,954 ✭✭✭Degag


    Archimedes wrote: »
    Oh my god.

    Sky actually have a 0 of 39 miners rescued in the top corner of their screen, which will tick up each time a miner comes out.

    Absolutely cringeworthy, they truly are The Sun of "news" channels.
    Well, they are owned by the same person....


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    #87
    baldbear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,518 ✭✭✭baldbear


    That miners daughter was nice. Jesus i hope they don't drop that capsule now.


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    #88
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    As far as TV goes, this is fairly dull.

    Needs an explosion or two to liven things up.


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    #89
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    As far as TV goes, this is fairly dull.

    Needs an explosion or two to liven things up.

    Let the last 2 miners fight to the death for the last rescue trip.

    Failing that a couple of computer generated T-rex's would liven things up a bit. Raaaaaarrrr!!!


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    #90
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,304 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    RoyalMarineComm wrote: »
    is it true they sent a 40" tv down to them a while back?

    if so, why didnt they just exit the mine through that hole?

    If it had been a regular tv shaped hole maybe, they dug a hole 40" wide but only 2" deep, those flatscreens are just wafer thin.


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    #91
    th3 s1aught3r
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭th3 s1aught3r


    how did they get stuck down there ?


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