huggins:"you shoud be ashamed of yourself."

I should be rich too, but that ain't gonna happen either.

Ludwig:"chastise myself for making light of a very serious subject and grave predicament."

Any excuse for a good bit of self-chastisement, eh?

Fair dinkum, folks. Mining is a dangerous business. I've been down a few myself over the years. The miners all know the risks and they take the money as compensation.

It's very hard for the families no doubt and probably an untimely end for the blokes concerned, but it's part of the game. Meet it with a grin as they say.

The miners would not expect anything else, I reckon.

Your probably right Anti they are very blokey type blokes over that way and I did laugh when I read your post.

But I just heard it wasn’t looking good now and no signs of life, I think I expected them to come out again as the last news said they were easier to reach than the last mining accident in Chile.

I’ve no idea how mining is done in NZ Ludwig. Seriously didn’t even know we had any.

Horizontal sounded much more promising to begin with though.

Even if you exclude mining, Nuclear power is still the safest generation technology based on fatalities per GWhr.

Including mining (as far less uranium is required) this improves even further.

I watched this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU

What I got was that solar was the way to go.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/new-blast-all-miners-feared-dead-20101124-1862p.html

"A second explosion has rocked the NZ mine where 29 men are trapped and authorities have told their families that none of them would have survived."

I hope visiting Kiwi,s know we mourn with them.
I hope they understand while humor is a tool at such times ,some of us felt it was too early to laugh.
And we like New Zealand wanted a better out come for them, the the children wifes and family's of these miners and are sad because we all lost yesterday,the dreams chance still existed.