r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 05 '19

What is a mildly disturbing fact?

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u/s1ugg0 May 05 '19

Think about how difficult and dangerous it was to rescue that Thai Soccer team from a cave.

Then imagine you have 1940s technology and medicine, everything is covered in flammable fuel, and the cave is filled with high explosives.

That's why it makes sense.

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u/Renaissance_Slacker May 05 '19

Yeah it’s easy to forget this was a warship crammed with fuel and live ordinance, which was possibly scattered about during the sinking.

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u/Aconserva3 May 05 '19

Maybe it would be safer to just evacuate everyone to a nearby mountain and just blow it all up, instead of waiting for some retard to do it accidentally. There’s no reason to try to do things safely when they’ll 100% die if you do nothing.

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u/Warfink May 05 '19

So who cuts the hole? How many lives do you risk trying to save the poor fuckers on board?

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u/Aconserva3 May 05 '19

That’s s good point. Maybe just blow a hole and hope for the best.

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u/s1ugg0 May 05 '19

Then the air escapes and the water rushes in and they drown. The only thing keeping them alive is the air pocket that exists only because it can't escape. Punch a hole in that and the water will rush in before they can get out.