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After seventeen days of uncertainty, thirty-three miners trapped nearly fifty thousand miles below the Chilean surface were reported to be alive and well. Although it could take up to four months for the miners to be freed through a proposed 68 cm hole, they will be able to receive food, water and medicine via some sort of bucket and rope system, I’d imagine. With typical surface-dweller arrogance, tons of rescue equipment from around the world was rushed to the site. This being done with the assumption that the miners would want to be brought back to the surface of a world that once tried to bury them.

While miners make it possible to shod a horse or throw a Chinese star, ungrateful surface-dwellers pay them very little attention unless they are dead or dying—although in fairness to the surface-dwellers, the miners don’t exactly make it easy to come and see them because they’re hiding underground and whatnot. Read the rest of this entry →