The Glade 4.0

You all know what I'm talking about.

The last Chilean miner has been freed from 69 days of entrapment. Thirty-three men walking around alive when no one with any sense would have given odds on any of them making back to the surface, much less alive, before the note in red ink came back up on the end of an exploratory drill..

Best feel-good story of the year, heroic rescue, all the men rescued, international help, even the USA gets a pat on the back for helping out with a fantastic drilling team.

How do you feel about it?

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

meh

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I expected one giant Chilean Hulk to emerge, after he had eaten all the others.

Sucks they gotta wear shades for like the next month!

Wiping tears of happiness from my eyes as I type this! What an ordeal for the miners and what a rescue effort!! I never expected them to survive, but Im soo releived that they did and are back with their families!

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

So glad they made it out. /clapclapclap

This is so great. Kudos to all. A happy day for many.

Par-tay in Chee-lay! Good deal.

The whole thing is pretty trippy, really, and extremely happy for them. But, wow, 69 days underground. I've done some time caving, can't imagine being confined like that for that long. Pretty manly to come out more or less in one piece.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

I'm happy for them and their families and I can see that it makes for decent 24hr news cycle fodder. Yet, I cannot fathom how people have personally invested so much in this, while, by comparison they totally ignore greater human triumphs/tragedies closer to home and around the world.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

why does this suck? They are $450 Oakley's

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Dream as if you'll live forever...
...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

Like what?

I'm happy they are out. And watched with some moderate interest.

I think some of the things that made this story a great one and inspirational are:

1. The tale of survival against all odds
2. The teamwork required to pull it off
3. The way people rallied across the world
4. The technology required to accomplish the task
5. And in the last 24 hours, the fact that they were successful

It's a feel good story where everyone survived. That's about as American as apple pie.

All I could think of when I saw someone mention that the other day was:

Miners not minors!
You lost me

I am going to keep my yap shut.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut