To: cmsgop
My guess is that they're not 'down' 4000 ft -- they may be traveling on an incline so the length of their path is 4000 ft. but they're only ?500-800 from the surface.
To: Ed_in_NJ
Thats sounds more realistic!
2,525 posted on
08/14/2003 6:59:52 PM PDT by
cmsgop
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To: Ed_in_NJ
That makes total sense now... The climb out would be 4000ft, not that they are straight down 4000ft.
To: Ed_in_NJ
My guess is that they're not 'down' 4000 ft -- they may be traveling on an incline so the length of their path is 4000 ft. but they're only ?500-800 from the surface. 4,000 feet is quite possible -- the deepest mine in Canada is 7,200 feet.
2,560 posted on
08/14/2003 7:06:53 PM PDT by
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