Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Nice story about Potosi today

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/world/americas/for-miners-increasing-risk-on-a-mountain-at-the-heart-of-bolivias-identity.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

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  1. Hi Professor Kearns,
    I have been under the weather lately and missed last nights lecture(lecture #4). I was wondering if missed anything important? Please let me know. Thanks,
    Kaylee Dunckel

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  2. Notes will go up soon, and there weren't any big announcements, just reminding people that the paper is due next week on

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  3. That was supposed to say "on Douglass" :)

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    1. Okay, thanks! Any chance you could send me the prompt? I don't seem to have it.. thanks for letting me know!

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    2. Check ur email. Just sent it! :)

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  4. Hello professor!

    I've run into a family emergency.
    And I don't think I will make it to class tonight. But I still wanted to check in and see if there would be anything important I would be missing like a quiz or such. Please and thank you!

    Destanee!

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  5. Mine collapses completely freak me out. I can't imagine a more awful way to die, especially if you're trapped for weeks or something.

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    1. From what I understand, slow oxygen deprivation just dulls you to sleep. Not painful

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    2. What about the situations where there's a massive cave-in, but there's enough space to languish for weeks at a time? Like the one in Utah a few years back, where miners were trapped for a couple of weeks and then several rescue workers died trying to get them out. Then everyone died. It's the being trapped that would be the worst, I think - knowing you'd be okay if you could get out, but eventually falling asleep and never waking.
      Cheerful thoughts.

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