Everyone is helping in Thailand tweet:

[applegrove]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Some good feedback from cave experts in Thailand. Iterating with them on an escape pod design that might be safe enough to try. Also building an inflatable tube with airlocks. Less likely to work, given tricky contours, but great if it does.</p>— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="

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[GoCubsGo]

1. Well, if there's anyone who could find a solution, it would be that guy and his crew.

If they can get two booster rockets to return to Earth and park themselves simultaneously on their launch pad, surely they get those kids out of a cave. I just hope they have enough time to figure it out and get it done.

[applegrove]

3. The pod seems like a good idea. Divers could be stationed at each obstical

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with the equipment needed to get through that water. Sometimes the kids would be pushed in a pod. Sometimes buddy breathing with a diver. Sometimes giving the kids their own tank with instructions to push the tank ahead of them as they go through a narrow hole. Stop before each obstical and train the kids how to get through. Kind of like you do in white water canoeing. I did the Dumoine River in Quebec when I was 17. At each set of rapids we would go over the map and plot out how we were going to manoever around the rocks and where there were drops. So nothing came as a surprise. And the next set of rapids we would stop. Look at them. Point and discuss with maps of each. Each set of rapids was different but knowing them well beforehand helped.

[GoCubsGo]

5. It wouldn't be that difficult to make something that is inflatable.

Otherwise, it isn't that hard to teach them to use a diving regulator, and let them get used to it, so they don't feel so claustrophobic. If they can have enough trained divers with lighting along the way where possible, that would go a long way in reassuring these kids.

[applegrove]

6. Oh i'm sure they will be well floated in the areas that have some oxygen

and water beneath. A pod like Musk is talking about would not be floatable and the kids could breath it it as it is pushed underwater over long distances. IMHO.

[a kennedy]

2. He's at least doing more for them then our own damn government......

Gawd love ya Elon.

[applegrove]

4. US Navy Seals are in thailand. You can bet US government is involved.

[Lochloosa]

7. They would be my first choice, if I needed to be rescued.

[Crabby Appleton]

10. The US sent a 30 person military detachment

on June 28. Link to Time Magazine article from June 28 below:

http://time.com/5324561/international-experts-thailand-cave-missing-boys/

By ELI MEIXLER Updated: June 28, 2018 3:46 AM ET

Experts from the U.S. and U.K. have joined the search to locate 12 missing teenagers and their soccer coach, as the effort to rescue the team trapped inside a cave in northern Thailand stretched into its fifth day.

British cave experts enlisted in the rescue effort Wednesday night, and an American military contingent is en route to Thailand’s northern Chiang Rai province, where diving operations have been repeatedly halted by rising floodwaters, the Associated Press reports.

Three British cave diving experts, named as Robert Charlie Harper, John Volamthen and Richard William Stanton, arrived in Chiang Rai Wednesday evening, according to Thailand’s The Nation. The U.S. military’s Indo-Pacific Command has also dispatched a 30-strong search-and-rescue team, who were on the ground to assist Thai units Thursday morning, according to AP.

I've seen the same female USAF Captain on several TV reports from the scene, she's the spooks person for the US military assistance detachment.

USAF Capt Jessica Tait

[applegrove]

11. They said they were US Navy Seals earlier in the week. That makes more sense.

[Gothmog]

8. They will be in my prayers

[spanone]

9. K&R...