10-08-2010, 08:07 PM
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First Line Centre
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Trapped miners possibly out Tuesday
Rescue efforts way ahead of original forecast. Good for them.
What a crappy way to spend a couple months. I'm thinking if they're into it, these guys are gonna make a killing on the talk show circuit! Quite the story.
http://www.canada.com/news/trapped+C...338/story.html
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10-08-2010, 08:47 PM
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I imagine they'll want a couple days off before returning to work.
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10-08-2010, 08:51 PM
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Good news all around.
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10-08-2010, 08:51 PM
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Originally Posted by chummer
I imagine they'll want a couple days off before returning to work.
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I would highly doubt any of them would return to that line of work.
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10-08-2010, 09:15 PM
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i wonder if the company will pay them straight time, overtimes, nothing......
i was reading that mining is one of the main industries there.
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10-08-2010, 10:16 PM
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Originally Posted by chummer
I imagine they'll want a couple days off before returning to work.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dion
I would highly doubt any of them would return to that line of work.
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Whoosh!
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10-08-2010, 10:18 PM
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They've had a couple months off with pay and without having to do any work, I would expect they'll be ready to go in a few days.
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10-08-2010, 11:00 PM
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You people make it seem like they have a choice in the matter!
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dear god is he 14?
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10-09-2010, 12:17 AM
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Originally Posted by flameswin
Whoosh!
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 nuff said!
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10-09-2010, 08:44 AM
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They still have to case the hole (3-10 days) according to a Yahoo article. I think it's funny that their women are set up in a tent camp getting their hair done.
I wonder how many kids will be born in July/Aug in that town?
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10-09-2010, 12:35 PM
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That Crazy Guy at the Bus Stop
Join Date: Jun 2010
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I bet most of those guys will never want to see each other again. It's probably like when Homer and Mr. Burns were trapped in the mountain lodge.
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10-10-2010, 01:59 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Precision Drilling Rig 421 to the rescue,
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10-10-2010, 10:07 PM
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Offered up a bag of cans for a custom user title
Join Date: Oct 2008
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What if you guys were down there and were asked what you needed to keep you busy? I would probably get an ipad loaded with games and digital books. I would be so damn bored without electronics. Maybe some poker chips and cards? That place must smell bad, so I would get that mint stuff you stick in your nostrils.
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10-11-2010, 01:47 AM
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Chile rescuers prepare escape shaft for miners exit
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COPIAPO, Chile (Reuters) - Chilean rescuers Sunday reinforced an escape shaft to hoist 33 miners to freedom, bringing their stunning survival story close to its climax two months after they were trapped deep underground.
Engineers have drilled a narrow, nearly 2,050 foot-long shaft to evacuate the men, who have been using explosives to make room for a special capsule dubbed “Phoenix” that will lift them one-by-one to the surface.
The rescuers were inserting metal tubes to line the first 330 feet of the duct to strengthen it, and the government expects to start the evacuation Wednesday in one of the most complex rescue efforts in mining history.
“If everything goes really well (it might happen on Tuesday) and if things don’t go so well, it could ... be Thursday,” Mining Minister Laurence Golborne told reporters. ”When we said on about Wednesday, it means that — it depends on the advances and setbacks that occur in such processes.”
He said it could take up to two days to hoist all 33 men to the surface.
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http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/...402/story.html
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10-11-2010, 09:44 AM
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First Line Centre
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what is kinda neat is that they cant agree on who gets to come out last.
it is like a code for them
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10-11-2010, 09:54 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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That guy who got busted when his mistress showed up, wants to be last.
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10-12-2010, 08:25 PM
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Scoring Winger
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They just sent the first rescuer down to meet the miners.
Full coverage on CNN and on CTV after the National News
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10-12-2010, 08:27 PM
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Franchise Player
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Go boys go!!!!
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10-12-2010, 08:37 PM
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Scoring Winger
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They just showed him arrive in the mine, wow.
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