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- dasohr0
Follow this guy's meltdown. It's entertaining.
- ukit20
Alibaba plans IPO, could be worth more than Amazon, eBay or Facebook.
- sea_sea0
Wow.
"China: Miner Found Alive After 17 Years Underground."
http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/…- That's amazing. Damn.mg33
- :/CALLES
- strange that there's essentially only one semi-shady news story about this. fake, I'm guessinghereswhatidid
- CALLES0
http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/…
China: Miner Found Alive After 17 Years Underground - See more at: http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/…
Ürümqui| A group of coal miners from the western province of Xinjiang, had an unbelievable surprise when the gallery they were excavating opened up on a section of an old mine, that was abandoned 17 years ago after an earthquake that caused some large sections of the tunnels to collapse. While they were exploring the galleries, they stumbled upon Cheung Wai, a 59-year old survivor from the 1997 accident, obviously in a rather bad shape. He was immediately taken to the hospital where a complete evaluation of his physical and mental states will be done over the next weeks.
The poor man had remained trapped underground with the bodies of 78 of his dead coworkers, after an earthquake of a magnitude of 7,8 hit the region and caused the wooden support structure of the mine to crumble and collapse. Somehow lucky in his misfortune, Mr. Cheung was saved by the fact that some ventilation duct still connected his underground prison to the surface, allowing him access to air that was sufficiently pure to keep him alive.
He managed to survive thanks to an emergency stash of rice and water, stored in an underground depot, conceived especially for this kind of case. The man complemented his diet by catching and eating the countless rats that pullulate in the mine, as well as collecting large quantities of some sort of phosphorescent moss, which constituted his only source of vitamins. Even though he was suffering from great physical and mental stress, he managed to give proper burials to all of his comrades, spending almost a year in this great selfless act.
Mining accidents remain common in China despite growing measures by the government to reduce the problem, which killed more than 4000 miners a year at the beginning of the millenium. Over the last years, the authorities have been cracking down on many unregulated mining operations, which account for almost 80 percent of the country’s 16,000 mines. The closure of about 1,000 dangerous small mines last year helped to cut in half the average number of miners killed, to about six a day, in the first months of this year, according to governmental statistics.
The case of Mr. Cheung remains unique however, and constitutes a world record, according to the universally recognized authority on record-breaking achievement, Guinness. The former record for surviving underground was of 142 days and was held by a british man named Geoff Smith. He had been voluntarily buried in the backyard of the Railway Inn, his favorite pub, with the intention of breaking the record.
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- sine0
- lajj0
- are the french fucking useless or what?moldero
- reminds me of: http://www.bibliocur…renderedred
- yurimon0
http://qz.com/207512/taking-a-ph…
Taking a photo against a white background? Amazon owns the patent on that
- yurimon0
http://www.independent.co.uk/new…
Not north korea?
- GeorgesII0
what's up with the fake news here
- IRNlun60
Web host gives FCC a 28.8Kbps slow lane in net neutrality protest
- reanimate0
China has outlined its plan to connect the world by high-speed rail, including an underwater link to the US running a total 13,000km.
The ‘China to Russia plus the United States’ line proposed by the Chinese Academy of Engineering would start in the north east of China, travel up through Siberia, across the Bering Strait to Alaska and down through Canada before reaching the contiguous US, The Beijing Times reports.
- what's crazier is they estimate they can complete the project for just $20prophetone
- With all due respect - why in sweet fuck are you posting Chinese-language pages here?!detritus
- we financed it with our debtyurimon
- but 后分成两支，一支?
Hahahaha!moldero - and 开工，境外线路仍在?
fucking ridiculous!moldero - ah but 柬埔寨、泰国、马来西亚，抵达新加坡.
well, thats cool i guessmoldero
- ukit20
Mapping The International Availability of Entertainment Services
- whatthefunk0
Cocaine use in Britain so high it has contaminated our drinking water, report shows
http://www.independent.co.uk/new…
- i_monk0
A woman in the Brazilian city Guarujá, near São Paolo, was beaten to death last week after Facebook rumors circulated that she was a witch.
A local news outlet, Guarujá Alerta, posted a rumor on its Facebook page that Fabiane Maria de Jesus was kidnapping children for black magic rituals. They included a picture of the woman, who was subsequently beaten to death by people who had read about her online.
- Dear God, we are a nasty, simple species.detritus
- post in religion thread?hereswhatidid
- http://www.andyellwo…utopian
- people in brazil seem very smart....yurimon
- Stone age sillyvisation********
- dbloc0
Russian officials have denounced Eurovision Song Contest winner Conchita Wurst, a bearded drag queen, with one even asking the culture ministry to ban the singer from touring Russia.
- rouncey0
Grey wolf appears in U.S. state for first time in 89 years – is immediately shot dead by hunter
- utopian0
Breakfast cereals loaded with too much sugar for U.S. kids.
U.S. children are consuming more than 10 pounds (4.5 kgs) of sugar annually if they eat a typical morning bowl of cereal each day, contributing to obesity and other health problems, and cereal makers and regulators are doing little to address the issue, according to a study released on Thursday.
