One thing they're not sharing with the men is their estimate that it could take four months to drill them out of an emergency shelter nearly half a mile below the surface.
They're miners.
They know how long it takes to drill.
16 posted on 08/26/2010 7:00:28 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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