When Chilean miners were trapped by a landslide in 2010, NASA appeared to be providing help. Now, it is eccentric businessman Elon Musk, founder of the SpaceX rocket companies and Tesla electric cars, who offered to put all their technology at the disposal of the Thai authorities to save them. 12 boys and their coach trapped in a cave for nearly two weeks .
Last Tuesday, a Twitter user asked Musk if he could help in one way or another to rescue the children, to which the South African magnate replied that "well that the Thai government probably has everything under control, it would be nice to be able to help. "
I suspect the Thai government has this control under control, but I'm happy to help if there is a way to do it
In another message indicated that another of its companies, The Boring Company, which is dedicated to the problems of tunnels and infrastructure, a "an advanced radar penetration into the ground and is quite good dig holes." He also offered to send batteries and high capacity water pumps to help drain the water from the cave that prevents the boy s to leave.
Boring Co has advanced ground penetrating radar and is good enough to dig holes. I do not know if the flow of the pump is limited by electrical energy or if the pumps are too small. If so, could the dropship fully charge Powerpacks and pumps?
James Yenbamroong, the founder of the company Mu Space that offers broadband internet services in Asia, revealed that the SpaceX team has them contacted on Thursday "to help connect with the Thai government."
The SpaceX team is addressing us today to help connect with the Thai government. Our team is connected and has provided some preparation feedback to your team. For pumps, the cave has the narrowest section of 70cm and about 5km to 13 types. For vertical drilling, it is about 1/2 mile and delicate
A spokesman Musk confirmed the talks at Bloomberg, but did not say anything about it. has not elaborated on the content "We are in contact with Thai officials to see how we can support their efforts."
The cave in which boys aged between 11 and 16 remain trapped and their trainer of 25 has very narrow parts between a 70-centimeter section in the narrowest part. Digging to reach the boys is also complicated because is about 800 meters deep which should be drilled.
The cave has very narrow parts.
A dangerous rescue
The death of a volunteer rescuer this Friday, an exbuzo of the Thai navy, revealed the difficulty of evacuating the boys without endangering their life, since do not know how to dive or swim .
For the moment, an experienced diver needs 11 hours to make a round trip to where the children are: six lanes and five times back thanks to the # 39, current .
The Thai navy has suggested that rescuers have no choice but to attempt a complex and dangerous rescue. The time to get them out of the cave is "limited" acknowledged the authorities.
Race against the clock in Thailand: rescuers have to walk several kilometers between very narrow pbadages and underwater expanses to reach the guys and your coach. They fear that the new rains flood the cave even more https://t.co/klJQFW2zSg pic.twitter.com/jAD1EQjTf9
Yookongkaew did not say they will try to save them on Friday, a day when monsoon rains will again fall in this region mountainous Thailand, which could cancel the pumping efforts done until now
For the moment, rescuers say they prefer to wait for the water to go down: this would allow the children walk out through the gallery, with a minimum number of underwater sections that they have to go with masks s
This is the preferred option for rescuers, who have set up a pumping system, badisted by Japanese engineers, who has already taken the 10 km cave the equivalent from more than 50 Olympic pools .
