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Re:Elon Musk offers to help Thai cave rescue by Nokinside on Friday July 06, 2018 @08:57AM (#17470995)
It's OK to offer help and make a statement that you are offering help.

It's bad idea to pitch solutions publicly on Twitter. Musk could contact the rescuers and provide solution options privately. It's very easy to create chaos and political pressure when politicians, relatives and others are demanding why are you not doing like Musk says.

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Re:Elon Musk offers to help Thai cave rescue by mulletbum on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:32AM (#17471224)
"Musk could contact the rescuers and provide solution options privately."

How? What if he doesn't have contacts and doesn't want one of his assistants putting a bunch of time into finding the single contact needed. He literally talked to them instantly, anyone who knows the people working on this can get back to him directly, Musk didn't even know their name.

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Re:Elon Musk offers to help Thai cave rescue by Nokinside on Friday July 06, 2018 @11:08AM (#17472012)
It's very easy to make these contacts quicly if you are recognized entity in the field.

Call to Thai embassy would be the first step.

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