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Number 5, the youngest miner, just got out..
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It is fantastic news. Hugh admiration for the Chilean authorities for not giving up on the search for survivors and for those companies who have offered support and practical assistance. It just goes to show what potential for good exists when people cooperate and work together towards a common goal without regard for borders; and where the worth of human life is not subject to any form of market valuation.
Now what's sad to note .... Thousands of children under the age of three still die every day in our world for want of clean water. Many millions - indeed approximately two thirds of the world population still exist on the equivalent of a dollar a day. Many hundreds of thousands of people work and live in poor conditions and for wages that are not sufficient to properly feed and cloth their families - and the majority of these are actually producing clothing for large western companies (like Gap, Nike, George etc) whose 'codes of practice' are in fact not worth the paper they are printed on. In the so called developed world meanwhile, the gap between the richest and poorest continues to grow, whilst in the UK Government presses ahead with plans to virtually dismantle our health service - in the USA many people still face the daily reality of not being able to afford even basic health care. In a world in which 'the Market' remains officially 'King', and inequality, environmental destruction, acts of war and exploitation remain 'a price worth paying' in order to preserve the global economic order, the rescue of those miners is a bright light shining in what remains still a very dark place for many. |
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Number 6....there was a delay as they greased and checked out the wheels on the capsule that is bringing them up.
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Number 7!!! It only took them 12 minutes to get him up....hopefully they will get into a quicker rhythm and get them out sooner than they planned!!
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Number 8!!!!!
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Number 9, the oldest of the miners just got out. He gave them the most to worry about because he has black-lung and they were afraid of him in the tube.
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# 10 !!!
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Number 10!! He told his father a week before the collapse that the mine didn't sound right and his father told him to get out of the job. After it collapsed his father grabbed his own mining equipment and went to see if he could help dig them out.
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Hi Soufie!! I haven't gone to sleep, just so I can watch them.
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# 11 !!!!
This one came up quick!!
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Edited by
Fade2Black
on
Wed 10/13/10 05:43 AM
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Some of our American companies have been in on the plans for this recovery, NASA especially. If you can get ABC.com I think they are showing the recovery. They had an article about 4 geniuses from NASA .. especially an engineer who designed the escape pod that's carrying each one to the surface. Awesome we can all work together eh? http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/nasa-engineer-clinton-cragg-thought-small-to-design-rescue-capsule-for-chilean-miners/19667140 |
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#10 getting ready to come up, it does indeed bring tears to your eyes eveytime another one is safe!! Bless all the hard workers that made this possible!!!
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Mikey, they are waiting on number 12 to come up.
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i was watching, or trying to watch, a soccer game. and it was interrupted by coverage of this thing. /: my lover was on. and i didn't get to see him play. ): do we really have to watch these people get pulled up. 
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Mikey, they are waiting on number 12 to come up. 
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they just said it was #10 that just was rescued on GMA!!
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Some of our American companies have been in on the plans for this recovery, NASA especially. If you can get ABC.com I think they are showing the recovery. They had an article about 4 geniuses from NASA .. especially an engineer who designed the escape pod that's carrying each one to the surface. Awesome we can all work together eh? http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/nasa-engineer-clinton-cragg-thought-small-to-design-rescue-capsule-for-chilean-miners/19667140 Judy, he did a great job making this tube for them. It's working great!! |
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I have CNN on since midnight Eastern Standard Time and haven't slept yet.
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Mikey, they are waiting on number 12 to come up. |
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It should be live, I'm watching it live
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