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Anyone want to take a stab at a working movie title???
"Thai Cave Rescue Movie" starring Jackie Chan and Elon Musk as Elon Musk


“Thai Hard” starring Bruce Willis as a cop on vacation in Thailand who accidentally ends up leading a soccer team into a cave ... which is flooded by terrorists as a distraction so that they can steal bank notes hidden in the back of the cave.


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Deej
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"Remember the Thai Teens"?

NotActuallyALonghorn
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Of course there's a happy ending. It is Thailand after all.

Mojo Hand
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Those days stuck in the cave were the second-most boring thing the soccer team has done together. 

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7 hours ago, RedDirtTexan said:

Anyone want to take a stab at a working movie title???

"Thai Cave Rescue Movie" starring Jackie Chan and Elon Musk as Elon Musk

The Thai Navy SEALs posted this on Facebook: "We are not sure if this is a miracle, science, or what. All the 13 Wild Boars are now out of the cave."

I'd go with Wild Boars as a working title. 

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5 hours ago, CoTex said:

It is frustrating to me that we keep discussing “oxygen.”

we don’t breathe “oxygen” on land and divers don’t breathe it underwater.

we breathe air.

most divers breathe air, and technical divers might breathe special gas mixtures like nitrox, heliox, or trimix.  No diver breathes oxygen except when they’re in the ambulance on the way to the hospital after a diving accident.

its expensive, explosive, and toxic at depth.

the Thai navy seal guy didn’t “run out of oxygen” - he ran out of air.

carry on.

That is some serious nitpicking. I think everyone knows that they're not breathing pure oxygen from their tanks. But there's only one ingredient that needs to be present in whatever cocktail of gases you want to call "air" in order for it to sustain life. No one dies from a lack of any inert gas. Give him all the air he wants. If the air doesn't contain oxygen, he's still gonna die. 

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3 hours ago, El Diablo said:

Musk is playing the odds and the long game. Some Thai kid is going to get curious and get stuck inside the mini-sub that's been left there.

 

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Musk has the keys to the Thai boy submarine in his pocket.

 

he'll just propose an even smaller mini-mini-sub to get them out of that one

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8 hours ago, RedDirtTexan said:

Anyone want to take a stab at a working movie title???

"Thai Cave Rescue Movie" starring Jackie Chan and Elon Musk as Elon Musk

“Happy Endings - The Thai Cave Rescue Story”, starring Jerry Sandusky as the Coach

 

 

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Looks like a water pump failed just as they were getting the last group out, sending water rushing in. Very close call
 
Interview with what I assume is a PJ:
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/thailand-cave-rescue-final-group-rescued-just-before-water-pump-malfunction/
 

Damn, mother nature literally just writing this script for Disney. Next we're going to hear that the coach has a hot love interest and she discovered she's pregnant while he was in there.
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21 minutes ago, Vito Andolini said:

Does this mean we get Meg Ryan as Grimes, tearfully pleading with Elon not to go to Thailand? 

I’m sure she could pull it off with a little more plastic surgery.

A little more plastic surgery and there won't be anything she can't pull off. Nose, lips, cheek bones, you name it. Pull a little too hard and ...

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11 hours ago, tokamak said:

Honestly, hey, good for Musk. He made an effort. More than the rest of us did tweeting thoughts and prayers or whatever from our fucking couches.

 

Speak for yourself. I wasn't sending thoughts and prayers. I was on this thread being snarky. 

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20 hours ago, CoTex said:

It is frustrating to me that we keep discussing “oxygen.”

we don’t breathe “oxygen” on land and divers don’t breathe it underwater.

we breathe air.

most divers breathe air, and technical divers might breathe special gas mixtures like nitrox, heliox, or trimix.  No diver breathes oxygen except when they’re in the ambulance on the way to the hospital after a diving accident.

its expensive, explosive, and toxic at depth.

the Thai navy seal guy didn’t “run out of oxygen” - he ran out of air.

carry on.

 

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Hee hee...

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Elon Musk 'Can Stick His Submarine Where It Hurts,' Says Diver in Thai Cave Rescue

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Fortune July 14, 2018

A British diver involved in rescuing a Thai boy’s soccer team from a submerged cave has a low opinion of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s very public offers of help, telling CNN that Musk “can stick his submarine where it hurts.”

Musk’s proposal to rescue the team with a small submarine “just had absolutely no chance of working,” said diver Vern Unsworth, who played a major role in the rescue. “[Musk] had no conception of what the cave passage was like. The submarine, I believe, was about 5 foot 6 long, rigid, so it wouldn’t have gone round corners or round any obstacles.”

“It wouldn’t have made the first 50 meters into the cave from the dive start point,” Unsworth continued. “Just a PR stunt.”

Musk on July 6 began brainstorming at length on Twitter about a small submarine to help rescue the team. The sub was quickly built and tested using SpaceX components and engineers, with the process extensively documented and shared by Musk.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-apos-stick-submarine-162938880.html

 

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... aaaaannd Elon just keeps digging that hole deeper... now bordering on neurotic batshit crazy.  Elon, you're a fucking douchebag, you know.

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Elon Musk taking heat for calling British diver who aided Thai cave rescue 'pedo' on Twitter

USA TODAY NETWORKN'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAYPublished 3:17 p.m. ET July 15, 2018 | Updated 3:18 p.m. ET July 15, 2018

Elon Musk's Space X tested a "kid-sized submarine" in an LA pool that could potentially transport children through the flooded cave passageways in Thailand. A spokesman for Musk's Boring Co. tunneling unit said Thai officials requested the device. USA TODAY

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is taking heat for calling British diver Vern Unsworth, who helped orchestrate the Thai cave rescue, a 'pedo' on Twitter Sunday.

Musk was responding to criticism from Unsworth who called his attempt to aid the rescue with a mini-submarine "a PR stunt" in an interview with CNN.

"He can stick his submarine where it hurts," Unsworth said. "It just had absolutely no chance of working."

You know what, don’t bother showing the video. We will make one of the mini-sub/pod going all the way to Cave 5 no problemo. Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2018

Last week, Musk announced on Twitter that he was testing a mini-sub to help rescue the 12 Thai soccer players trapped in a cave with their coach. 

But his mini-sub never made it into the caves. The head of the joint operation command center Narongsak Osatanakorn said the submarine was "good and sophisticated," but not practical for the rescue operation, according to The Guardian.

Each rescued boy was escorted through the labyrinthine cave by two divers, each of them holding an oxygen tank that feeds to the survivor's mask.

Unsworth, who has spent the last six years exploring the caves according to CNN, had a critical role in that rescue. He said the sub likely wouldn't have made it past the first 50 meters because it wouldn't be able to make it around corners or obstacles.

He went on to say that when Musk visited the cave he "was asked to leave very quickly."

Musk denied this saying that the Thai Navy SEALS "escorted us in — total opposite off wanting us to leave."

Never saw this British expat guy who lives in Thailand (sus) at any point when we were in the caves. Only people in sight were the Thai navy/army guys, who were great. Thai navy seals escorted us in — total opposite of wanting us to leave.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2018

Musk also insisted that he was asked to help repeatedly with the rescue and worked with Rick Stanton, another one of the divers who found the boys in the cave, to design the sub.

I was *asked* to help repeatedly. Declined several times, as I thought they had it in hand & only agreed to help when Thai SEAL died (deep cave pumps not operating at time). We designed the mini-sub to Stanton’s specifications *and* brought a flexible rescue pod just in case.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2018

We were external expert-sourcing the design with experienced cave experts on the Internet. We showed progress videos to iterate with the local dive team. 
And … we certainly didn’t lie. Proof will be in the pudding shortly, when we take mini-sub all the way in & out of Cave 5.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2018

Many on Twitter criticized the remark, but Musk doubled down saying in response "Bet ya a signed dollar it's true."

 

 

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