• Chilean miners to create shrine inside mine
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[release][tab]Rescuers send food and water through a drill riser to miners trapped for 20 days in Chile.[/tab][img]http://imgkk.com/i/k2qb.jpg[/img] (CNN) -- Communications and supplies were flowing efficiently between rescuers and 33 trapped miners in Chile, authorities said Wednesday. The miners have been trapped for a total of 20 days with minimal food. A probe sent by rescuers found the men alive on Sunday, but it could be three to four months before a hole can be drilled that will reach the men, 2,300 feet below the earth's surface. In the meantime, the miners are asking for certain objects to be sent down to make surviving in the cave easier for them. Officials have sent down playing cards, and the miners have asked for religious figures, such as statuettes of saints, to be delivered to them, Health Minister Jaime Manalich said. A crucifix has also been sent down. The miners intend to designate an area in their shelter as a shrine, Manalich said. They have also asked for a Chilean flag. Video: How small is space for 33 miners? For their part, authorities are focusing on the mental and physical health of the miners. Chile is asking NASA to send a team of two or three experts on nutritional and psychological issues, Manalich said. Based on a survey of the miners, three or four of them are showing signs of depression, such as not sleeping and feeling mentally uncomfortable, he said. Also, according to medical records, there are at least nine miners who would be too overweight to fit through the proposed shaft to rescue them, Manalich said. The miners are believed to have lost about 8 kg (17 pounds) so far during their time in the mine, and officials expect that the overweight miners will be able to be rescued by the time the shaft is completed. "Believe me, they will lose weight," Manalich said. What the miners eat and how much will be monitored by officials. Rescuers hoped to have tubes in place later Wednesday to constantly pump oxygen and drinking water into the shelter where the miners are. To create a routine, officials are having the 33 split into two shifts, one which will sleep while the other works or has leisure time. One thing that officials have not explicitly told the miners is how long they may be trapped before a rescue. On Wednesday, however, President Sebastian Pinera gave them some clues in a conversation. Pinera told the 33 that they would have to celebrate Chile's independence day -- September 18 -- inside the mine. He also told one of the miners, who is Bolivian, about a meeting between the presidents of both countries in late November. Pinera said he would invite the Bolivian miner to accompany him. The miners have been trapped inside the San Jose copper and gold mine since an August 5 cave-in. Family members had cheered Sunday when Pinera held up a handwritten note pulled from the mine. The note was tied to a probe authorities had lowered earlier Sunday. Written in Spanish in red ink, it said simply: "We are fine in the shelter, the 33 of us."[/release] [url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/08/25/chile.miners/index.html?hpt=T1]sauce[/url] I can't wait for the documentary / movie of this
Who's gonna whine about a shrine in a mine.
Wow!
If it makes them feel more comfortable, why not?
4 Months? HOLY SHIT :wtc:
Think about being stuck in a dusty cramped mine with 33 other men.
[QUOTE=Sottalytober;24351916]Think about being stuck in a dusty cramped mine with 33 other men.[/QUOTE] It's a Californian's dream :allears:
God, I can't imagine how much it would suck to be down there for so long...
Just watch out for the giant rockworms from penumbra.
[QUOTE=GammaFive;24351654]Who's gonna whine about a shrine in a mine.[/QUOTE] About time These rhymes, just sublime
I honestly don't think I'd be able to take it. I'd probably kill myself. But, then again, I would never become a miner in the first place.
They should grow beards, and come out talking like the Dwarves of Middle-Earth.
[QUOTE=StormHammer;24352995]They should grow beards, and come out talking like the Dwarves of Middle-Earth.[/QUOTE] Where will they get the battle axes? :ohdear:
[QUOTE=ZekeTwo;24352407]About time These rhymes, just sublime[/QUOTE] Everything will be fine, if we keep these rhymes in line, double time.
[QUOTE=bigbigzubra;24353146]Where will they get the battle axes? :ohdear:[/QUOTE] Make them from the rock that they dug out on their way up, of course.
inb4 people bitching about them making a shrine
[QUOTE=evilweazel;24351969]It's a Californian's dream :allears:[/QUOTE] Believe me, if you're a dude, then you're obviously gay, and if you're a chick, trust me, it wouldn't be nice for you.
I bet they will have an [I]unexplainable[/I] urge to play minecraft now.
[QUOTE=Bllasae;24353277]Believe me, if you're a dude, then you're obviously gay, and if you're a chick, trust me, it wouldn't be nice for you.[/QUOTE] ---the joke-------> your head.
[QUOTE=BBKF;24353694]---the joke-------> your head.[/QUOTE] I hope it was a joke, to be honest.
[QUOTE=Bllasae;24353277]Believe me, if you're a dude, then you're obviously gay, and if you're a chick, trust me, it wouldn't be nice for you.[/QUOTE] Oh shut the fuck up. There's nothing wrong with being gay you homophobic ass. Also, where the hell are they going to the bathroom? D:
The sunlight is going to rape the fuck out of their eyes when/if they get out alive.
[QUOTE=MaverickIB;24353902]The sunlight is going to rape the fuck out of their eyes when/if they get out alive.[/QUOTE] "Oh it's gonna be so nice to be out" 1 min later "HOLY SHIT IT FUCKING BURNS LIKE A THOUSAND SUNS BACK IN THE FUCKING MINES!!"
Ten bucks one of them goes crazy and murders everyone else, then poses as them in letters to the surface.
So, like, where do they poop? Thirty three guys pooping in an enclosed space...I bet they lose weight. "Anyone want another bowl of chili beans?" "NOOOO!" When one of them tries to masturbate: "Shhh, I hear something..." "Uh, anyone else hear bats flying around?"
[QUOTE=Kylel999;24353816]Oh shut the fuck up. There's nothing wrong with being gay you homophobic ass. Also, where the hell are they going to the bathroom? D:[/QUOTE] Nice flaming, bro.
[QUOTE=MaverickIB;24353902]The sunlight is going to rape the fuck out of their eyes when/if they get out alive.[/QUOTE] I'm assuming the team of experts is going to plan for this and everything else in due course.
This would make for some interesting creepypasta. 33 Miners trapped in a mine, 4 months to get them out, communication with the miners continues for those 4 months, on the final day the machines broke through the mine finally ending the nearly half a year imprisonment of those 33 men. However when they came down to bring the men back up, all that could be found where the rotting corpses of 33 men, it looks as though they had been dead there for many months. And near the small inch hole that had been used to supply them was a pile of supplies.....unopened. Eh I tried.
[QUOTE=Adius Shadow;24354405]This would make for some interesting creepypasta. 33 Miners trapped in a mine, 4 months to get them out, communication with the miners continues for those 4 months, on the final day the machines broke through the mine finally ending the nearly half a year imprisonment of those 33 men. However when they came down to bring the men back up, all that could be found where the rotting corpses of 33 men, it looks as though they had been dead there for many months. And near the small inch hole that had been used to supply them was a pile of supplies.....unopened. Eh I tried.[/QUOTE] :tinfoil:
My eyes widened like O_O when i saw that it would be like 3-4 months... that sucks so bad.
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