Posted on 07/08/2018 11:36:04 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
“the coach will come out looking good.”
I think I heard that the coach also is a monk. Maybe Buddist? Anyhow, I doubt that he’d do anything purposely to jeopardize the lives of children under his care. Accidents happen. Doo-doo occurs. Wrong time; wrong place. I don’t fault the coach at all.
I was wondering why Thais don’t swim...their beaches are nice...
Wise words indeed!
I’ll take #1: Due to the number of people in the area where the kids are, the oxygen in the area has been used at a higher rate than the natural cave system can replace it. With that higher usage, the CO2 concentration has risen in kind.
Since they are over 2 miles deep in the tunnel system and the route torturous, with some areas too small to install an air line apparently, they are carrying in air bottles and releasing their contents. This adds fresh air, raising the oxygen content, and dilutes the CO2.
As to your second item, it’s timing I believe and a misunderstanding of the terrain in the cave I believe.
He could send a thousand of his flamethrowers and send a thousand people into the cave to boil the water away. Then he could send in custom Tesla mini-cabs to drive them out.
Another option would get the Boring company to bore a new tunnel and send a Mofel X to the kids.
There is still the cave sharks that can get em.
The front part of the cave has a huge beginning chamber that lots of people go into and look around.
My understanding it is a kind of local “urban legend” or ritual where boys try to go in the cave as far as they can.
Local boys do this but usually turn back after a few 100 meters or so beyond the well defined and visited part of the cave.
A group like that would only encourage each other to go farther than most do over the past few years.
It might be better publicity for Elon Musk to just pull an “Oprah” and give a new Model 3 for all the kids, minus the head coach that led them to this predicament.
He’s keeping them short because so many FReepers don’t read walls of text.
Geesh... I thought what he said was succinct and funny.
I’ll never understand the appeal of caving having been dragged into a few in northern Arizona many years ago. Gah! The lack of ANY vision (absent weakening, battery light) bothered me most.
I’ve read that the soccer coach followed them into the cave, having spotted their bicycles outside the cave entrance. They were already missing and he went looking for them.
In general, people should simply stay home. Home is good!
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