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rabs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-10 10:56 PM Original message |
Straight-talking engineer was behind Chile rescue |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-10 11:11 PM Response to Original message |
1. Que me pelen el Chile los gringos. nt |
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rabs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-10 11:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Asi es ... |
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whistler162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-10 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
3. Yup no US help at all..... |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-10 11:24 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. The On Site commander was Chilean |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-10 11:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Even if? There is no 'if' about it . There was a lot of US help ;) |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 12:40 AM Response to Reply #9 |
17. I read the article and ignored the comment |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-10 11:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. You forgot to add the 'sarcasim' thingie to your comment ;) n/t |
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Cirque du So-What (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 01:05 AM Response to Reply #3 |
21. There's more hate contained in your simplistic one-liner |
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whistler162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 01:15 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Don't research much do you...... |
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Cirque du So-What (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 07:17 AM Response to Reply #23 |
31. A modicum of research on your part would show they were SATELLITE PHONES - not CELL PHONES |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-10 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
4. That saying ain't limited to Chile |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-10 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
5. Americans DO deserve some of the credit. See below |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-10 11:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. So do Canadians, South Africans |
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rabs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-10 11:58 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. The point is that there were people who said it would not have been possibe without U.S. aid |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 12:16 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. President Obama sent well wishes. Americans were not 'bragging'. |
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rabs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 12:33 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Buenas noches |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 12:45 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. NASA is staying for the post psych phase |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 01:44 AM Response to Reply #16 |
24. "All of the miners have been released and are home" |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 12:17 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Jeff Hart was there, a US drilling expert, who ran the rig that got to them. |
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4lbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 12:20 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. So, the fact that the entire operation was first performed in the US in 2002, by Americans, to save |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 12:46 AM Response to Reply #15 |
20. Actually some of it they did develop |
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canetoad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 02:35 AM Response to Reply #15 |
29. Not exactly |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 12:43 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. The chinese were |
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canetoad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 02:30 AM Response to Reply #12 |
28. Here ya go rabs |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-10 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
6. Ugly jingoism goes many ways, it seems. |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-10 11:49 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Thanks for the link :) |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 01:44 AM Response to Reply #6 |
25. please do not bring facts... |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 01:14 AM Response to Original message |
22. Forget the rescue. Which countries got the guys stuck down the mine? nt |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 01:46 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. when it comes to mining... |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 01:48 AM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Chile and Bolivia, IIRC.... |
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radhika (563 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 05:20 AM Response to Original message |
30. Compare and contrast: The BP Gulf Spill |
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LTX (400 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
32. Just a reminder -- |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
33. K&R! |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
34. Rabs, people who rush to take offense over any suggestion the US didn't step in like Superman |
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Tansy_Gold (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 03:25 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Ditto. And to add. . . . . |
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LTX (400 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 09:13 AM Response to Reply #34 |
39. First, |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
36. Andre Sougarret, coordinador ejecutivo de milagros |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
37. Andre Sougarret: the brains behind the Chile mine rescue |
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CHIMO (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 08:49 PM Response to Original message |
38. Chile’s CEO moment |
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