Posted on 08/15/2007 6:17:10 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
Why is it taking so damn long to get this done? Where is the Army Corps of Engineers? You know if some Mexican migrants got stuck in a smuggling tunnel, that Bush would bring the entire Federales to bear to get them out.
I heard about that and I am praying. God bless those families.
CNN just had a pretty good live interview with Robert Murray (the mine owner). It was on Anderson Cooper’s show. Ithink it repeats after midnight. (I normally watch FOX, but they don’t seem interested in the story.)
Yeah, there probably is - but it would cost money.
My understanding is that this mine owner had been cited for over 300 violations of safety codes in the last couple of inspections, and had made little to no effort to fix the problems (I have no idea if the safety problems in the citations is related in any way to the current emergency). But obviously, the owner isn't too concerned with safety or spending money on some sort of communication technology for such an emergency...
I’ve thought about this and have concluded its just very hard to communicate underground.
In cave-ins wires get severed. Radio doesn’t work well under ground, light beacons don’t penetrate rock.
On the surface, under water, or in space there are lots of options. Not so easy down below.
Most of the negative stuff you hear is from union, this is a non-union mine. Noticed that FNC seems to be having some peeing match with mine Owner, from all the “Fox ladies” that don’t have a clue that FNC has covering this story.
Yes....why don't they have GPS systems on them when they enter these caves???
Becuase GPs is line of sight and under cover (much less hundreds of feet of rock) you’d not get a signal.
Communication is impossible because you’d need an ultra-low frequency transmitter of which it would be too difficult to equip miners with to make it worthwhile. Tapping is the most feasible way.
bump to check back later
One of the “violations” was not emptying trash cans at the end of a shift. If I wasn’t so tired and lazy tonight I could Google up the entire list.
Son told me there was breaking news on the miners on CNN. Owner was being very careful with what he said. Fox was rerunning O'Reilly. Fox is really, really bad when it comes to breaking news.
Actually there is undergound radio
http://radiolocation.tripod.com/Transverter/Transverter.html
and see
http://www.qsl.net/kq6xa/ Hams do it all the time.....
Oh. Thanks much for the response.
i know... i keep thinking the same thing... there's got to be someone who could come up with something that would work...
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