…with their families, and such as they may need to get caught up on the world.<\/p>\n
If this had been done as a NASA mission, they’d have studied and selected, and studied some more.<\/p>\n
There were not so many ‘selection criteria’ on these guys, except they were all male, all Chilean (except 1 guy from Bolivia), all in fair condition—enough to be employed, but not without some medical issues. And they were very lucky to have an Elvis fan, a guy with paramedic training, and some strong-minded people who were not fatalists. If you haven’t been up on the Chilean miner deal—they spent over a week without them knowing what was going on and with the world thinking they were dead; then they turned up alive, and the world beat a path to their doorstep—so far down they had some real technical challenges getting to them. <\/p>\n
NASA had some helpful experience to offer, but I think they’ll want to talk to these people, no question; a previous mine rescue (I think in PA) had some technology to offer—and in general these guys are very, very lucky.<\/p>\n
SF conventions have proven again and again how much expertise you can find if you put a bunch of people in a hotel for the weekend: should civilization go down, we could probably rebuild it. And we’d have a library.<\/p>\n
But an Elvis fan? he became the de facto morale officer. The medic got far more experience than he’d ever had. And the average guys just hung on and kept hoping, which also saved everybody’s bacon. There were some negative moments, high tensions; but y’know, the average guys just hung on and kept the peace, and it all worked.<\/p>\n
A nice moment for the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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