Well this is a mind bottling story. There are 33 Chilean miners trapped a half mile below the surface. They’ve been there for 17 days but they’re alive. It’s going to take 4 months to get them out.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38807555/ns/world_news-americas/
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Gomez wrote that the miners used vehicles for light and a backhoe to dig a channel to retrieve underground water.
:jawdrop:
Insane. Amazing that ALL of them are currently OK.
Google “floyd collins”… I was just looking at his story (tragic) earlier today.
I hope they all make it out intact. Sounds like once they get the little elevator shaft to pass things up and down they’ll be a lot better off. :bigtup: to resourcefulness in a crisis.
You know, what happens when your thoughts get all trapped up like in a bottle.
That story blows. They were actually able to get him food and water for some time until the entry way fully collapsed. Seriously no one thought about giving the guy a couple blankets and running a long ass pipe down to him so that they could drop skittles and M&Ms down to him?
Your logic blows. Floyd dead in 1925. M&M’s patented in 1941. Skittles born in 1974.
GET WITH THE PROGRAM.:oj:
LoL
Lol.
This really is an incredible story.
Will be following it as it unfolds…
This is going to make for one awesome made-for-TV movie.
COPIAPO, Chile, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Engineers prepared on Tuesday to install a big drill to rescue 33 miners trapped for 19 days deep in a Chilean mine, and will send down games to help them cope with a wait that could last until Christmas.
The rescue crews began sending hydration gel and medication through a narrow bore hole on Monday to keep the miners alive during the long rescue effort and set up an intercom.
To avoid hurting morale, officials have not yet told the miners how much longer they may be underground.
Engineers must now build a concrete platform and erect the drill, which will bore a shaft 2,300 feet (700 metres) straight down around 2 feet (62 cm) in diameter, and plan to use a pulley to lower a cage to evacuate the miners one at a time. They hope to start drilling the escape shaft by the weekend.
The government has contacted NASA for advice on how to keep the miners healthy with space mission-like rations and help them deal with the extended stay in a confined space. It has also turned to submarine experts in Chile’s navy.
Ana Salazar, 51, is sure her son can cope.
“I know he may be down there for a long time, and it will be tough, but he can do it,” she said. “We’re a mining family, I’m a miner too, so he knows this won’t be fast.”
The government plans to send the miners card games and dominoes to help them pass the time, and will feed electricity down a small bore hole to run different types of lighting to mimic the sensation of night and day. It is already one of the longest periods trapped miners have survived underground.
Regional superintendent Ximena Matas said it would take a couple of days to assemble the drill. Rescue workers say it will take three to four months to dig the escape shaft.
One of the interesting things to note as well… last I heard they had not told the miners that it will be 3-4 months.
Fixed 
They just found out they were still alive a few days ago, they’ve been down there for weeks already. Crazy
i figured they wouldn’t tell them the 3-4 month thing until they had made progress in improving the conditions.
Where’s Bruce Willis and his gang of oddballs? If they can bury a nuke a mile down on an asteroid I’m sure they can do better than 3-4 months. WE GOT NO TIME, NO TIME! 
I can only imangine someone down there being a parent. " you think being grounded with no TV is bad!? I was burried underground for 4 F**king months!!"
They should start shooting bud lights down the hole. “Here we go.” underground miner party in the dark
i would be begging for a bottle of whiskey
If I was stuck underground for months I guesssssss i’d be ok with drinking BUD LIGHT.
lol. theyre asking for peaches and beer hahaha
and fleshlights.