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70 miners trapped in Canadian mine.
2006-01-29, 7:35 PM #1
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/30/content_4118251.htm

Something REALLY fishy going on. Don't tell me these mine accidents are coincedences.
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2006-01-29, 7:38 PM #2
Not a good time to be in the mining profession...

and I didn't see anything about fish in that article.
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2006-01-29, 7:42 PM #3
Mining has always been a dangerous occupation
2006-01-29, 7:42 PM #4
Crap, I hope they're okay.

Lot of mining accidents recently. It's weird.
Stuff
2006-01-29, 10:32 PM #5
Originally posted by kyle90:
Crap, I hope they're okay.

Lot of mining accidents recently. It's weird.


Were there more than two?
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2006-01-29, 10:53 PM #6
THere were two in west tenessee I believe.

Most of the miners died in both situations.
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2006-01-30, 1:15 AM #7
This is something like the fifth one in the last month.
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2006-01-30, 2:02 AM #8
Something like five thousand people die every year in China in mining accidents (an arbitrary reference). Mining in western countries is like child's play compared to the situation in the multitude of remote mines in China.

Still, it suck every time, of course. I'm not saying that every accident wouldn't be a disaster, no matter how many or few happened.
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2006-01-30, 8:05 AM #9
Originally posted by kyle90:
Crap, I hope they're okay.

Lot of mining accidents recently. It's weird.


Or just more media attention to these events?
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2006-01-30, 9:18 AM #10
Yeah, it's just like child kidnappings during the whole elizabeth smart era. You heard about a bunch of different kidnappings as if it was something new, but then they started getting less attention, she got rescued, and you don't hear about them at all anymore.

You notice that the media has tunnel vision, when they find a topic they're interested in they stick to it. Celebrities like ben & jen, brad and angelina, etc. Kidnappings, mining stuff, etc. Eventually they stop making such a big deal over them and it shows just how cold the media can be.
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2006-01-30, 10:28 AM #11
Okay, they're all fine. That's good to hear.
Stuff
2006-01-30, 10:36 AM #12
Originally posted by Jedigreedo:
Yeah, it's just like child kidnappings during the whole elizabeth smart era. You heard about a bunch of different kidnappings as if it was something new, but then they started getting less attention, she got rescued, and you don't hear about them at all anymore.


Yeah, the media definitely has fads. One story can spawn a slew of the same type. There were trends like kidnappings, prison breaks, and now mine accidents.
2006-01-30, 10:51 AM #13
This is exactly why we need make all dangerous labour done with robot workers. The human ex-miners can be given large severance packages, or given other jobs elsewhere.
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