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thedarkprojectYou know, we hear about so many negative things and hear so much bad news, but this rescue of the Chilean miners is quite amazing by comparison. Humans have been mining for thousands of years, and accidents have happened all that time, and for most of our history those men would have been left to die. Now, despite them being a third of a mile underground, and it taking 17 days just to make contact with them, never mind the 70 days they've been waiting down there, it looks like they're going to all make it back to the surface alive.
"Fifty-four-year-old Luis Urzua is scheduled to come up last. He's has been credited with showing the leadership that enabled the miners to survive the first 17 days - when they were entirely cut off from the outside world." He was keeping morale up all that time, and now is seeing the job through by making sure everybody's out safely, even though at his age they'd be more than willing to bring him up quickly - what a guy.
"Fifty-four-year-old Luis Urzua is scheduled to come up last. He's has been credited with showing the leadership that enabled the miners to survive the first 17 days - when they were entirely cut off from the outside world." He was keeping morale up all that time, and now is seeing the job through by making sure everybody's out safely, even though at his age they'd be more than willing to bring him up quickly - what a guy.
