Everyone is Chilean today
 

this is probably the most feel good news story/event I can ever remember seeing.

Seeing the first guy out giving his media statement, the English translator struggling not to cry as she translated... even I had a lump in my throat.

'I was with God, and I was with the devil': miner Mario Sepulveda Espina
 

Live feed here:
CBC News - World - Chile mine rescue: 19 pulled to safety, 14 to go

I've been following the story from the beginning and it is awesome to know that by the early hours of Thursday they will all be out, barring any incidents.

I have choked up with every single man that has emerged (19 so far)

This entire story has been intense all the way through, from the beginning to now. Those guys are high-quality humans and deserve the greatest respect possible.

an amazing story. It's like that little girl who was stuck in the well, except there were many more people stuck down there.

22!

This whole story kills my "good news isn't news' theory... really happy about that.

Viva Chile!

Best News I have seen in Many, Many Years!!! (And I'm older than dirt!) :)

Bet they have some intense stories to tell.

BTW........How did they determine who went first?

24! Chi Chi Chi ...Le Le Le!

reading between the lines, they took the two technologicaly smart guys first, then the ones with health conditions and then the non sick guys. The last guy coming up is the boss

I love that the one thats an Elvis fan has been offered an all expense paid trip to Graceland by the Elvis people

then & plus the five?.. rescuers who braved the downward trip.

Man, I'm by far the furthest from a nationalist, but that Chi Chi Chi Le Le Le:
is infectious.


25!

I would imagine that poor bugger who has his wife -and- girlfriend waiting Topside is probably trying to find a way to stay -in- that hole!

He is already up, his Mistress was there....not his wife, the wife told him to pretty much stuff it lol

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Chi-Chi-Chi-Le-Le-Le is the new Huzzah!!!

27 ..27 ..27 ...

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28!
The faces of anticipation are keenly poignant.

now this is just cool
Why American drilling hero Jeff Hart will not be at Chile mine for miners rescue - San Francisco SF | Examiner.com

Haha, the dude who invited his mistress and wife. That was super awkward to watch. Why would he invite both? Goes to prove that you can't have everything you want. That soccer chant one of the miners started was awesome.

To even imagine being stuck in the ground for as long as they were is unimaginable to me. Then they have to take the ride up in the tube, which looks insane. They're lucky that they're used to tight spaces, I would have been like "fuck that! I'm not getting in there!"

How about those sunglasses they have to wear? They must be the best sunnies in the world.

Is this the best (feel-good) story of the year? I nominate it as so.

29!

Watching all this hugging reminds me I haven't had one for a long long time.
Hermitage sucks today. I'm in a hole of my own making. That's sad stupid.

CHI-CHI-CHI! LE-LE-LE!

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Thirty.

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Rescatados: 31!

only 2 miners left!! and hopefully bringing up the rescue guys will go just as smoothly

Rescatados: 32 !

I've been streaming the net video all afternoon in my studio. I find the quiet holding on to the miners by their wives when they finally meet is very moving. The mother who reached out to touch once more the face of her son as he lay in the stretcher just before being moved to the observation area was particularly heart warming. And the little girl who released her balloons to fly into the sky after she hugged her dad - pure sweetness.

And I am so glad Larry King is not braying into a microphone as I watch. That is such a nice non-element of all this :thumbsup:

I am LOVING the fact that the close up cameras are not american. That was a great move on the chilean governments part. And I love that the CNN people were saying "lets just be quiet and watch this"

What I DONT understand is CNN's decision to switch to the stupid Delaware vote

Riveted to the telly since 5 this morn.

It appears that the good nice boss is entering the down below capsule now..

& up up & towards!

Local Español channel for the duration!

I've been watching since last night....Im really sleepy but I just couldnt not watch it all

Areeba areeba! Arriba Arriba!

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whooooo doggie!

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Mision Cumplida! ...almost.

Is it horrible of me that I could actually go to sleep now, even though the rescuers arent all up?

I have followed this so closely for so long I'm just exhausted now that its over.

Shani, I went to sleep last night hours before the first man was rescued.
I tucked all the goodwill beneath my pillow & slept well.

Oh, & by the way..It's great to see you here & posting.
Sending sweet dreams your way.

NO TE PREOCUPE!

I am fascinated by all of this.

To be honest, I haven't been watching but it has been impossible to avoid this story.

I get why this story has become a global story (or I think I do) but am still struck that an inherently local story has become a global one.

We live in odd times.

The last rescue worker is climbing into the capsule...

The ascent begins...

I'll be a Negative Nancy and state that there were hundreds of people that starved to death during this period of time that could have been helped if the resources that were used to move the international news media to the site had been used to move food to their location. But we don't care about that.

I mean, who cares? Those people are just statistics. I'm tired of feel-good rescue stories that jolt the well-to-do out of their apathetic comas.

He's Topside.

Good night & good morning.

PZ.

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Plan9: Piss off.

id want to be either the first one out or the last one out. everyone in between is just a number and no one will remember you in a few months time.

i havent watched this at all. partly because i dont have a TV. but its just a story of survival for a week or two before they got discovered and people down did what they had to do to survive. the whole beatup since they were discovered is really killing me. they had food, water and contact with families.

sorry, i dont see the whole thing being such a big deal either.

Exactly. How many people dumped their wallet for Haiti and then immediately turned around and bitched about having to pay state taxes?

I'll mark my calendar. A year from now we'll see how many people remember anything about this event. Just like those little flags on 9/11.

also, the whole world media scrummage wasnt about people caring, but more about how many papers you could sell, or who could get the first shot or who could get the first picture to print.

I am Chilean for lunch. Plan9 you joining me?

I'm West Virginian. Those miners not only get buried all the time, but they get killed and nobody gives a "piss off."

I hope those of you that dont care are really never in ANY kind of situation where you need the help and resources of other caring people. If everyone felt like you those 33 men would be doomed to spend eternity down there. They are human beings. Chile was supposed to say "oh well other people need things in the world, other people are bitching about things in the world....lets just leave them down there to rot, why should we care?"

I just cant read this kind of crap anymore. Ring, you mentioned that it was good to see me posting again....its constant crap like this that has kept me from wanting to participate here anymore. Until yesterday afternoon there was no mention of these men on this forum and I was honestly flabbergasted.

You wanna bitch that the Chilean government did what needed doing to get them out while other people are starving in the world? You want to say they werent in dire straights because the were lucky enuff to have food and water and contact with the outside? Why dont we just forget that all that meant shit because there could have been another cave in at any time and they were stuck with no way out. Be my guest.

Funny, I didn't say that they weren't human beings. I think it's miraculous that they all made it out alive. We've had far less luck in the United States. But good for them. And at no point was I talking about the Chilean government. Where'd you get that? I was bitching about well-to-do obese crackers in America rooting for downed miners in Chile. For being so tired of this kind of crap it doesn't appear that you're actually reading very much of it.

I can't really blame you, though. I'm an acerbic, garrulous moron.

I apologize for the threadjack but I'm tired of this kind of crap, too.

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I'm curious: How do you feel about the US response to Haiti?

" Everyone is Chilean today "

..i was wondering why my farts were spicier than normal.. huh.

And somehow I'm the problem.

All of the miners got out safely! Whoohoo!
I love this photo:
http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-10/56751913.jpg

Many of the news articles mentioned that the miners were on a diet designed by NASA, but it looks like NASA offered a lot more help than that! Here are some little blurbs from NASA's website, to offer a bit more detail about the assistance they provided, including two doctors, a psychologist, and an engineer who helped the Chilean engeneers with their rescue cage design.
NASA - NASA Provides Assistance to Trapped Chilean Miners
NASA - NASA Engineer Helps Chilean Miners
http://www.nasa.gov/news/speeches/ad...an_Miners.html
Oh, and Shani, it's good to see you here. It saddens me to think that you've been chased away.
In the future, go ahead and start a thread about a current event that you'd like to see discussed.