Elon Musk offers to help Thai cave rescue

Re:Elon Musk offers to help Thai cave rescue by agumonkey on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:01AM (#17471020)

I think that his twitter-hype did help in Australia's case.

I'm annoyed by musk being all over the place touting technology. But as long as he doesn't impede the actual rescue why not.

Also the tube idea is probably the fastest and easiest to sustain the group survival.

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Re:Elon Musk offers to help Thai cave rescue by toomanybeersies on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:04AM (#17471035)

> Also the tube idea is probably the fastest and easiest to sustain the group survival.

Is it? How much experience do you have in cave rescues? How much experience does Elon have in cave rescues?

What if they go with his suggestion, due to pressure from the publicity, and it turns into a disaster?

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Re:Elon Musk offers to help Thai cave rescue by agumonkey on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:15AM (#17471113)

First keep calm.

Second diagrams showed they were thinking about drilling down (1/4 of a mile deep).

I can't imagine drilling being safer than passing a tube to the chamber.

I have no experience nor knowledge. I still claim that.

ps: I don't think Thai government is stupid to just follow some random celebrity. They have educated people there too. Musk is only saying he has drilling machines and powerbanks... that's all.

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Re:Elon Musk offers to help Thai cave rescue by geomark on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:12AM (#17471085)

I think he is also offering to ship powerpacks and pumps, in case pumping is limited by available power and equipment.

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