No one seems to know about the 2 miners, we have here in Australia, trapped 1K underground. They have been there for 12 day's and hopefully within the next 24 hrs they will be free.I hope. Brave men. Real Aussie's
Yeah they should be out soon. Apparently the close enough that the miners are digging with hand tools instead of machinery.
I always find this kind of story bizzare. This week tens of thousands of people will die across the world, millions of people will experience devastating personal tragedies, yet so many people get worked up about this specific one, simply because it is easy to televise. It just doesn't make sense to me.
its fairly obvious why people care- they can relate to these guys. they are (being portrayed as im sure) good aussie blokes tragically trapped. westerners can't identify with, say, 500 people freezing to death in some russian village, or a sweatshop roof caving in and killing a bunch of workers in china because it isnt part of their world. I mean for many australians these miners could be a brother or husband or son, hence why they get so worked up about it. god, can you imagine how bored they would be? and where would they take a dump?
Yeah it's been established that it's really smelly down there As for being bored...man, almost two weeks in a tiny cage with nothing to do. Ouch. At least they can deliver stuff to them through the small tunnel they dug to them. They both got magazines delivered, as well as bulk food, water, clothes and each got an iPod with their favourite music
One fella's family sent him some deoderant and toothpaste. Rescuers now have another set back with the rock being too hard to drill through :bang: I dont think they will ever get out
Nah they'll get them out. They're currently using small low impact explosives to blast through the last chunk of rock.
I wish they'd get them out already... make a movie about it, and be over with it already.... im gettin sick to hearing "they'll be coming out today" which is what they said 4 days ago.
Yeh, they said that they were getting them out last tuesday. Guess they need to be careful though, be rather anticlimatic if they caused a collapse and killed them...
Funny enough - goes to show you the value placed on life... here in China we get quite a few trapped in mines every week. Sometimes upwards of forty miners. It's become normal. Most don't make it out. China has the most dangerous mines in the world bar none. Life is cheap and expendable. The two most heartbreaking lines of work someone can ever be in is to be a farmer in the third world or to be a miner. Sad sad stuff. Hopefully those two guys make it out alive.
Funny you say that slip, here in oz, we value our fellow mans life, we have a sence of mateship, to us, they are not only 2 men stuck in a hole, they are 2 mates, even though most of us have never met them.