Thai Cave kids | All 12 boys and coach rescued from cave | visiting United
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i cant believe he forgot an epic bacon dispenser
Apparently, the water pumps died out not long after the people were rescued according to some Australian volunteers, suggesting it's done in the nick of time. Even otherwise, it's a heroic attempt but if true, that's just wow, can't describe it
Why are we talking about Elon Musk. Can't it have its/ his own thread?
Delighted they're all out. Thoughts with the family of that brave man who lost his life.
Delighted they're all out. Thoughts with the family of that brave man who lost his life.
All done with good old human spirit and bravery, rather than than on-paper tech (yeah talking about that prick..)
Wow!
Good points
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/thai-cave-rescue-hero-emerges-to-family-tragedy-10519594
The Australian doctor who participated in the rescue just found out that his father had passed away while he was on the mission.
The Australian doctor who participated in the rescue just found out that his father had passed away while he was on the mission.
F**ing hell! I only just read his posts. The Thai rescue chief didn't even say anything too negative. Absolutely no need for him to be so defensive over it.
To be fair to Elon, he actually sent that mini-sub to the cave. Was it too big to be used, or they didn't want to use some prototype untested technology?
They had already extracted 8 of the boys when he rocked up with his gadget. Why on earth would they ditch their successful procedure for something that was designed on the other side of the world and hadn't been tested in the cave?
Yep, it makes sense that they didn't use it. At the same time, I wouldn't blame Elon for trying to help. I mean, it could have been a plan B if suddenly rain would have started again, making the procedure they were using difficult for the last few people remaining there.
Too big, too stiff to go through the bends in the rock and really just an untested prototype.
As the email talking to him about it says, it's an interesting idea that could be relevant to rescuers somewhere, in some work, if it gets fully developed. But it wasn't useful to them, in that rescue and it certainly wasn't a relevant intervention on the last day of a rescue mission that was already demanding a lot of precision and focus from the rescue team.
You can help without spouting PR and self righteous crap on twitter and then attacking the press afterwards. If it was just a case of helping, he wouldn't have made a big deal about it and constantly banged on about it while those seals were risking their lives trying to save the boys. He's a prick, a left-wing version of Trump.
Which four did they rescue from the dark cave first? Karius and Milner I suppose?
There's nothing remotely left-wing about Elon Musk.
As much of a media whore as Musk has turned out to be at least that email exchange between him and Rick Stanton indicates he was encouraged to build the thing. Stanton said they were worried about the smallest boy. As far as I'm aware they were leaving the weakest till last so the sub rocking up on the Tuesday might have been useful, even if only for the last extraction.
Such a ridiculous looking bit of kit though, given the especially tight bends the rescuers reportedly had to struggle through.
Such a ridiculous looking bit of kit though, given the especially tight bends the rescuers reportedly had to struggle through.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/world/asia/elon-musk-thailand-cave-submarine.html
There were hundreds, if not thousands, of people from the local area and around the world who did contribute helpful and unhelpful things to the rescue mission and none of them pretended to be fecking comic book heroes while going about it. They didn't get a videographer to show off their awesome kit, they didn't tweet about how amazing their primary school ideas were "what if we built a wittle submarine" and when told their idea doesn't work they didn't turn up to the cave like Gaza trying to talk down a madman.
Any news report I have read said the weakest boys were taken out first.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/thai-cave-rescue-weakest-boys-rescue-underway-2018-7?r=US&IR=T
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-5931537/Weakest-boys-left-Thai-cave-reports.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-caves-Adelaide-doctor-said-ready-move.html
An amazing story this - absolutely delighted that it has had the best possible ending. The guys that got the kids out are proper heroes.
Oh I had no idea that Ivan Karadzic fella was Danish. Watched the short interview posted in this thread recently.
If they want it sure, but I doubt the majority of them are the kind of person to want that level of near-circus exposition, these are grown men. Official commendations are probably the most appropriate route.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/thai-cave-rescue-hero-emerges-to-family-tragedy-10519594
The Australian doctor who participated in the rescue just found out that his father had passed away while he was on the mission.
RIP to the brave souls father.
As @Pogue Mahone said, as morbid as it is, material for the inevitable movie just keeps on piling up. Getting them out just when the pumps where starting to fail, one of the heroes suffering loss in their moment of triumph, most writers probably wouldn’t even be able to do a script this well if they tried.
Details on some of the divers here - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44761821
First picture of the kids has been released.
Also, it does seem, like we discussed previously, that the boys were sedated.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44797035
Also, it does seem, like we discussed previously, that the boys were sedated.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44797035
You know it's gonna be Hans Zimmer on the beat when Michael Bay's filming the scene where Scarlett Johannsen and Brad Pitt stretcher a heavily sedated Matt Damon out of the cave into the chopper piloted by George Clooney.
When are the Thai cave kids back in training?
100%
Long haired dude will be played by Matthew McConaughey.
Heroes all of them.
Is Elon Musk always like this? I'm sure his intentions were great but the way he imposed himself on this operation surely could have been a bit more...subtle?
The guy on the right is already dead ringer for James Marsden
Long haired dude will be played by Matthew McConaughey.
Two of the British divers leaving Thailand. The one modelling Shaun the Sheep is John Volanthen looking for all the world like an IT consultant from Bristol going home from his holidays. He was one of the divers who found the kids.
Told he was a national hero, Mr Volanthen protested: 'It's not like that. If you could do the same for someone else's child, you would."
He got interviewed as he came through Heathrow.
https://news.sky.com/story/british-diver-we-are-not-heroes-after-thai-cave-rescue-11434068
"It was an international team of military and civilian divers, working alongside the Thai Navy, all pulling together."
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"We are not heroes. What we do is very calculating, very calm. It's quite the opposite."
Told he was a national hero, Mr Volanthen protested: 'It's not like that. If you could do the same for someone else's child, you would."
He got interviewed as he came through Heathrow.
https://news.sky.com/story/british-diver-we-are-not-heroes-after-thai-cave-rescue-11434068
"It was an international team of military and civilian divers, working alongside the Thai Navy, all pulling together."
...
"We are not heroes. What we do is very calculating, very calm. It's quite the opposite."
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...orean-diver-freezing-zero-visibility-10523340
An interview with one of the divers who participapar in the rescue operation
An interview with one of the divers who participapar in the rescue operation
if I lost about 5 stone, maybe.