Thailand - FOUND ALIVE - 12 Boys And Coach Still Trapped In Cave , 23 June 2018 #2

[Elainera]

Thanks for the update Jax and SunVenus! So I will go and make tea now

 

[Poppyflower]

I just c&p'd the link from facebook I'm usually bad with tech stuff, so I'm surprised it worked haha

 

[kkdj]

Since it's 4 a.m. there I would imagine the boys are pretty tired if not sleeping.

 

[creepcrusher]

I just c&p'd the link from facebook I'm usually bad with tech stuff, so I'm surprised it worked haha

The html code?

 

[Seattle1]

Bangkok now 4:10 AM
BST: Tomorrow +6 hours
PST: Tomorrow +14 hours

 

[creepcrusher]

Since it's 4 a.m. there I would imagine the boys are pretty tired if not sleeping.

I hope they're sleeping. I hope they are completely rested and ready for what will soon come! I wonder when the kid size submarine will get to the cave? He said he had a 17 hour flight to Thailand and that it would take 7 hours to finish building. Anybody know how long ago he posted that tweet?

Never mind. I checked his twitter and it wasn't a tweet. Where did that info come from?

 

[kkdj]

I can't imagine what they went thru before they were found. 9 days in complete darkness listening to the sounds in the cave of bats, rats and maybe other animals, smelling the smells, hungry, cold, frightened. When the divers found them and said they would be back the one boy said "oh, tomorrow?" I would think there was no sense of time unless someone had a battery watch on that could be lit up. It's just amazing what all they have gone thru, then to be found and all alive and in reasonably good health. Just amazing. Now to get them out and in the arms of their loving families.

 

[kkdj]

I hope they're sleeping. I hope they are completely rested and ready for what will soon come! I wonder when the kid size submarine will get to the cave? He said he had a 17 hour flight to Thailand and that it would take 7 hours to finish building. Anybody know how long ago he posted that tweet?

Never mind. I checked his twitter and it wasn't a tweet. Where did that info come from?

FB?

 

[Gardenista]

Ben Reymenants, a Belgian cave diver who operates a dive shop in Thailand, was part of the group that first found the boys on Monday, after more than a week of searching. He said the muddy current pushing against him on his initial dive felt as powerful as the Colorado River’s.

Thai Cave Rescue Will Be a Murky and Desperate Ordeal, Divers Say

Wow. NYT using him as a source after he was banned from the rescue operations for "spreading distortions" (I posted the tweet about this earlier today)

 

[BUF]

Thank you Poppyflower! How did you get that to show up here in the post? I need to learn.

Copy the URL then click on the film looking icon in the post box, a screen will pop up, paste the URL in it and hit post

 

[*Verdigris]

‘Where Have You Guys Been?’: Thai Cave Challenge Quickly Became a Trap

Uh oh.

Video clips shot by the students on the way and viewed by the Journal show them riding under cloudy skies, over roads wet with recent rain.

As much as I feel for the coach, and he truly does seem like a lovely young man - but -cloudy skies, and it was wet from recent rain...
and he still took them in?
Uh oh.

“Ok everyone, drink a glass of water and please go to bed. Bicycle gang, see you at the school at 8:20,” he wrote in a group chat on Facebook Messenger on Friday, June 22, which was viewed by the Journal. “Don’t forget to have breakfast and pack lunch everyone.”

at the same link:

“Are you back at home?” the Thai teenager texted to her boyfriend. Then: “Call me when you’re online."

About an hour later, at 10:58 p.m., she sent a heart sticker and four more messages:

“Do you have to be like this when you go to Tham Luang cave?”

“Where have you guys been? Dom isn’t online either.”

“Nobody’s online.”

“Where are you right now?”

The intended recipient, 16-year-old Pornchai Kamluang, never answered. As the world now knows, he and 11 other members of his youth soccer team, along with their coach, have been trapped more than half a kilometer underground, in rapidly flooding caves in northern Thailand.

The girlfriend, 14-year-old Warangkana Somsamoechai, says she warned her boyfriend, better known as Tee, not to enter the caves that day. They often flood during monsoon season, which starts in May.

The two argued after a morning soccer match, then again on the phone around 2 p.m., right before the group entered the caves. She says she hung up on Tee in anger. Now she says she wishes she could take it back.

Lots, lots more at link; this is a VERY good "human interest" aspect article, for those who like to read about the human side of events, rather than just the technical logistics:
。。。

 

[Gardenista]

Wow. NYT using him as a source after he was banned from the rescue operations for "spreading distortions" (I posted the tweet about this earlier today)

Quoting myself, but I just looked at the date on this article and it was from yesterday, so maybe before he was banned. They should update the story with that info, IMO

 

[creepcrusher]

Copy the URL then click on the film looking icon in the post box, a screen will pop up, paste the URL in it and hit post

Thank you BUF!

 

[SeesSeas]

snip - I wonder when the kid size submarine will get to the cave? He said he had a 17 hour flight to Thailand and that it would take 7 hours to finish building. Anybody know how long ago he posted that tweet?

Never mind. I checked his twitter and it wasn't a tweet. Where did that info come from?

Elon Musk on Twitter
@elonmusk
Replying to @aiyanaskye
Construction complete in about 8 hours, then 17 hour flight to Thailand
11:39 AM - 7 Jul 2018

Elon Musk making “kid-sized submarine” to rescue teens in Thailand cave
Musk says that his team is building the contraption now. "Construction complete in about 8 hours, then 17 hour flight to Thailand," Musk tweeted just before noon, California time.

 

[Poppyflower]

The html code?

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10157430882283812

I went to the web address bar on the webpage. Selected the address by clicking the link, then ctrl a to highlight the full address, then ctrl c to copy the adddress. Then I ctrl v and pasted it into my post here.

 

[Amonet]

The html code?

HTML code doesn't work in forums...you need something called BB code in a forum.

HTML code uses the < brackets, while BB code uses the [ square brackets.

 

[SunVenus]

O/T and more levity.

I've now been up for 24 hours following our "Wild Boars" team. In the background, as I watch the live stream of news, I can now officially make a few movie recommendations.

1) Jurassic Park was great. The sequels, not so much.

2) The Blair Witch Project scared me silly when it came out. Now, shaky cams are dull.

3) Do not watch Brokedown Palace at this time. (Fun note-- I literally ran in to Bill Pullman years ago. He's a jerk.)

4) The Big Year. Mayhaps only me and GutInstinct would be in love with this film. Birds FTW. And Jim Parsons is a treat!

 

[MysteryMama]

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
·
1h
4 handles/hitch points on front & 4 on rear. 2 air tank connections on front & 2 on rear, allowing 1 to 4 tanks simultaneously connected, all recessed for impact protection w secondary cap seal if leak develops.

 

[creepcrusher]

Elon Musk on Twitter
@elonmusk
Replying to @aiyanaskye
Construction complete in about 8 hours, then 17 hour flight to Thailand
11:39 AM - 7 Jul 2018

Elon Musk making “kid-sized submarine” to rescue teens in Thailand cave
Musk says that his team is building the contraption now. "Construction complete in about 8 hours, then 17 hour flight to Thailand," Musk tweeted just before noon, California time.

So basically, if they wait for this submarine/pod to get there and then check to see if it works, the boys won't be getting out for at least another two days. Yikes! What if it doesn't work? Then what? Argh!

Rain rain go away. Come again next month!

 

[MysteryMama]

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Replying to @JelteDesign and @maysacha
Fitted for a kid or small adult to minimize open air. Segmented compartments to place rocks or dive weights & adjust bouyancy.
4:10 PM · Jul 7, 2018