When those Chiliean miners are rescued...

[Candlelight]

...should we get the crew on the surface to dress up like the cast of Planet of the Apes?

It's been two months... would be a funny joke... maybe for a little bit....

(Personally I can't wait for them to come up. It's like the 21st century version of Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition all over again... except this time the trapped men weren't floating around the Antarctic coastline for two years...)

 

[Miss Chicken]

More like the Andes Survivors with a better diet and a little less isolation.

I imagine they will become as famous in their own land as the Andes Survivors are in Uruguay.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

...should we get the crew on the surface to dress up like the cast of Planet of the Apes?

It's been two months... would be a funny joke... maybe for a little bit....

Not funny. At all. Even for a little bit. Imagine the trauma they and their families have been through!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Agreed. Those miners are gonna be in NO mood for jokes.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I imagine in the euphoria of the rescue the miners will be in the mood for some joking around. At least none of them have been killed.

The Beaconsfield miners (her in Tasmania) got upset after a musicial comedy named "Beaconsfield: A Musical in A-Flat Minor" was staged in Melbourne. As one miner was killed in the cave-in I think that the title of the musical was in the poorest taste.

 

[bigdaddy]

How about we wait for them to actually get everyone out of the cave before making jokes or saying "At least none of them have been killed", because there is still danger.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Yes, there is still some dangers but I think that the miners and the rescuers are pretty confident at the moment. They are actually making sure it is as safe as it could possibly be and, if there is some doubt, they can delay the rescue by days or even for weeks. Originally it was thought that the miners could be trapped for 4 months or so and the miners easily have the ability to stay safely were they are for longer than even that.

They are in nowhere near the danger that the Beaconsfield miners were in and the Beaconsfield miners joked with their rescuers for days before they were rescued, and rescuers and miners and most Tasmanians were quite confident that the two men would be rescued once it was discovered that they were still alive.

 

[JustAFriend]

...should we get the crew on the surface to dress up like the cast of Planet of the Apes?

It's been two months... would be a funny joke... maybe for a little bit....

Guess you don't know any coal miners.

I do... half my family were coal miners in West Virginia and you do NOT want to mess with them when they come up out of the black....

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

This is a gold and copper mine, isn't it?

Whatever the hell they're mining down there (pun intended), they've suffered enough already. Leave them alone, for Christ's sake.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

...should we get the crew on the surface to dress up like the cast of Planet of the Apes?

It's been two months... would be a funny joke... maybe for a little bit....

Not funny. At all. Even for a little bit. Imagine the trauma they and their families have been through!

Agreed. That's just CRUEL to even talk that way.

 

[Miss Chicken]

The joke was a little off but is just discussing them doing them any harm at all?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ The joke is still in bad taste, even if there's not a chance in hell it will actually happen.

 

[MANT!]

Not really..but they will be debriefed (by Chilean medics,psychologists, authorities and ,of all things, NASA)..then counseled and provided with some downtime to be with their families.. The story will be sold in book form followed by TV movies and perhaps a major Hollywood film..certainly tele-novellas will be made..

if these gents are careful, they'll be set for life...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

These guys deserve the highest honors that Chile can offer. To hold up this long under such hellish conditions (what is the temperature down there, BTW?), wow...that's something that I could never handle. If I wasn't already dead, I would have gone insane.

What kind of supplies do these guys have? Food, water, etc. I did hear they actually have access to a supply of electricity...how do they get it down there?

 

[Miss Chicken]

They managed to get to an emergency shelter where there was a limited amount of food which they rationed.

This is what wikipedia has to say

The note read: "Estamos bien en el refugio los 33" (English: "The 33 of us are fine in the shelter").
Hours later, cameras used in the probe into the mine made contact with the miners, taking the first images of the trapped workers.The miners had a 50 square meter shelter with two long benches, but ventilation problems had led them to move out to a tunnel. In addition to the shelter, they had some 2 km of galleries in which to move around. The miners used backhoes to dig for trapped water. Some water was obtained from the radiators of vehicles inside the mineshaft. Health officials are running tests on the water. Food supplies were limited, and the men may have lost 8 to 9 kg (17-20 pounds) each. Although the emergency supplies were intended for only two or three days, the miners rationed them to last for 17 days until contact with the surface.[ They consumed "two little spoonfuls of tuna, a sip of milk and a biscuit every 48 hours" and a morsel of peach. They used the batteries of a truck to power their helmet lamps.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Can't be very easy to sleep down there either... And God only knows where they go to the bathroom.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I remember reading that they were using one of the galleries as a toilet area. It is some distance away from where they are living.

After contact was made with them they were sent small mats to sleep on.

 

[Candlelight]

I do... half my family were coal miners in West Virginia and you do NOT want to mess with them when they come up out of the black....

That's a very cool line... makes it almost sound like Firefly country...

 

[Deckerd]

I have to say there's an awful lot of pomposity in this thread, considering this is a tremendous human story. I imagine they'll be well up for a laugh when they get out. As to saying "oh there could still be fatalities - how dare you introduce levity" I say pfffft! I could get killed the minute I walk out of my office. So could anyone.

 

[JarodRussell]

I don't think such a joke would be in soooo bad taste.

Yeah, they are trapped down there, but they're all gonna get rescued, and they know that, they are in a good mood.

I hope they thought about sending down some comics.