As a cyber family, Pixies has shared some of the very human world events as they unfolded. From the earliest few members when 911 changed the world in ways we couldn't imagine, through the 2003 Shuttle re-entry disaster, to the 2006 West Virginia mine disaster and other, we have shared those moments of such personal emotion about people we never knew with people we had never met here at Pixies.


I truthfully waited for a thread focused on the Chilean situation but I also left it go because I was NOT optimistic when they began talking about a November or December rescue. So many factors overrode the mining activities that were going to start, for any hope of success in my mind. Everything from the mere ability of the miners emotionally stress ability to the effect of geological activity that was active at the time and surely would effect efforts in a crazy four month period, left me feel the worst was yet to come.

I'm so happy that so many others did not share my perspective. As is being reported in overwhelming amounts today, the efforts of every field of expertise bolted to unprecedented action with multiple contingency on a yesterday timeline. The MANY critical secondary related facets from families to the project managing using global inputs of the best on an instantaneous basis sets new abilities of cooperation for mankind.

At this moment of four lost beings being retrieved successfully is really uplifting for me and I'll feel it more when the last one is above ground. It is seeing an event like this that breeds a little hope in me for a specie I so often see so proficient in the opposite.

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Waaay too many big words for this time of the morning PF ......... but I concur wholeheartedly.

Sometimes something will happen along that restores at least some of the faith in humankind that everyday events kick in the teeth, hard and often. This is one such.

Fingers crossed that the remaining 29 get out ASAP, and in one piece. THEN, I'll celebrate properly.

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind

I saw this morning the number was up to five. Praise God and bless the rescue workers for their work in making it possible. Let's just keep praying that the rest do safely emerge from the mine.

As wonderful as this is for the miners, they had no choice in being trapped.

The bravest of the brave are the rescuers who have gone down into the mine

to give first assistance to the trapped, knowing that shit could happen at any moment

and trap them down there.

Beyond bravery.

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Calm, quiet, smooth, devastating

As of this moment (1149 ET), the reports are that 15 of the 33 have been rescued: and I'm able to get live streaming video of the rescue efforts.

Horray for the World Wide Web.

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On the kinkometer, my kink measures as a sine wave.

as of 12 noon CDT the 18th mines is just above ground now. Praying that all goes well for the rest of them.

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Yes indeed! A happy ending to a dramatic story.

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Eudaimonia

And the rescurers who had to go down in the mine to supervise the rescue are also out.

Chile as a nation has every right to go as wild as they are over this.

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On the kinkometer, my kink measures as a sine wave.