No Excuses Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Reading that everyone has been rescued. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsburySkinsFan Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Hot Damn! This is incredible. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 Incredible incredible incredible. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Speaking for the human species... Well done, gang. You put your own families & well being aside to rescue folks who needed your specific expertise. A simple thanks will never be enough. You're true heroes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsburySkinsFan Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Thank you God for working through the brave men and women who made this all possible. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD_washingtonredskins Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Very happy to see this today! It's a nice story all around, especially if none of the kids or the coach have any lasting issues. Hopefully everyone remembers the former Thai Navy diver... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 8 minutes ago, TD_washingtonredskins said: Hopefully everyone remembers the former Thai Navy diver... His selflessness was above & beyond anyone's call. Hail! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 Musk doesn’t make it easy to like him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StillUnknown Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 3 minutes ago, Springfield said: Musk doesn’t make it easy to like him. he's a james bond villain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 2 minutes ago, StillUnknown said: he's a james bond villain Sure, he does all this really cool stuff. People love him. The pessimist in me can’t help but think that half the stuff he does is just a publicity stunt. Model 3, late and over budget. Rocket, lands occasionally. Child rescue, builds a submarine for no apparent reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerm Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 4 hours ago, Springfield said: Sure, he does all this really cool stuff. People love him. The pessimist in me can’t help but think that half the stuff he does is just a publicity stunt. Model 3, late and over budget. Rocket, lands occasionally. Child rescue, builds a submarine for no apparent reason. I think his Space-X accomplishments have been fairly impressive. The cost savings through reusable rockets should be enormous. He always gives unrealistic timelines for his space-x goals. But the improvements in reusability he has already demonstrated are a big leap forward in my opinion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Elessar78 Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 On 7/15/2018 at 12:54 PM, Springfield said: Sure, he does all this really cool stuff. People love him. The pessimist in me can’t help but think that half the stuff he does is just a publicity stunt. Model 3, late and over budget. Rocket, lands occasionally. Child rescue, builds a submarine for no apparent reason. When you're ridiculously independently wealthy, it's easy to get detached from reality. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosher Ham Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 The timelines are set to increase pressure to perform. He knows they aren't typically realistic... he just throws them out for anticipation. Click Bait if you will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 Elon Musk is going to trial for calling a cave diver a pedophile on Twitter A defamation case involving Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a British cave diver will go to trial on October 22nd, according to recent court filings. Vernon Unsworth sued Musk for defamation last year after Musk repeatedly accused Unsworth of being a pedophile. A judge rejected Musk’s claim that he wasn’t making a real accusation — in part because of a potentially damning email Musk sent to BuzzFeed. “A reasonable fact-finder could easily conclude that [Elon Musk’s] statements ... implied assertions of objective fact,” wrote district judge Stephen V. Wilson. Musk and Unsworth got into a brief feud last year following the rescue of a soccer team that was trapped in a cave in Thailand. Unsworth, who helped with the rescue operation, criticized Musk’s dubious plan to save the team with a “kid-sized submarine.” Musk insulted Unsworth by calling him a “pedo guy” on Twitter. He doubled down on the insult by tweeting “bet ya a signed dollar it’s true,” then elaborated even further in emails to BuzzFeed — flatly asserting that Unsworth had moved to Thailand “for a child bride who was about 12 years old at the time.” Defamation law doesn’t apply to opinions or derogatory hyperbole, and Judge Wilson concluded that Musk’s case would be stronger if he’d simply tweeted an insult. But Musk “did not call [Unsworth] a ‘pedo guy’ and leave it there,” writes Wilson. “Rather, he made follow-up statements indicating that he believed his statements to be true.” That included the emails to BuzzFeed, where Musk “purported to convey actual facts and even suggested that the BuzzFeed reporter call people in Thailand to confirm his narrative.” Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoshuaj Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 https://news.yahoo.com/thai-navy-seal-took-part-125949854.html BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai navy SEAL who took part in the dramatic rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in northern Thailand last year has died from a blood infection he contracted during the operation, the Royal Thai Navy said on Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 I'm going to pay him the honor of assuming that, if he had known in advance that it would cost him his life, but his mission would be successful, then he would have made the same decision. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 'The Rescue' directors explain why they left Elon Musk out of their acclaimed documentary about the 2018 Thai cave rescue For two-and-a-half weeks in the summer of 2018, the eyes of the world were focused on Northern Thailand, where a real-life disaster movie was playing out in real time. On June 23, twelve teenage soccer players and their adult coach made their way through Tham Luang Nang Non cave just outside the town of Chiang Rai. Before they could make their return trip, heavy rainfall and flooding from the monsoon storms cut off their exit and stranded them deep within a system of narrow underwater passageways that were impossible to navigate without diving equipment. Rescuing the team became an intensive international operation that included the Thai and U.S. militaries, multiple teams of engineers and a group of British divers, who hatched a daring — and possibly foolhardy — plan that ultimately got them out alive. That story is dramatically re-told in The Rescue, the latest documentary from Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, the married filmmakers behind the Oscar-winning 2018 non-fiction hit Free Solo. After an acclaimed run on the fall film festival circuit, with stops at Telluride and Toronto, the movie opens in theaters on Oct. 8. But there's one part of the story that the directors consciously chose to leave out: Elon Musk's offer to aid the rescue mission. The billionaire entrepreneur became part of the rapidly-evolving news story — even traveling to the rescue site — and continued to make headlines after the team was saved for publicly quarreling with some of the rescuers involved. "It wasn't Elon's finest moment," Vasarhelyi tells Yahoo Entertainment now. "It takes away from what is important in the story, so we made an explicit decision not to include it because we're only including the essential parts of the story." As depicted in the film, before the officials in charge of the rescue decided on their final plan of action, they were flooded with advice and offers of help from numerous organizations and individuals. Musk stepped forward and offered the services of his engineers at SpaceX and the Boring Company. Among the ideas Musk's team pitched — many of which he documented on Twitter — was a "kid-sized submarine" that could be carried by divers. Ultimately, his suggestions weren't used in the operation, and he cheered on the successful rescue from the sidelines on July 10 when it was announced that all members of the team were safe. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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