Survival through a 3" hole

Survival through a 3" hole: "
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This whole Chilean miner incident has made me realize how claustrophobic I am because the very idea of being buried thousands of feet in the Earth, in a tiny room, filled with other anxious, surly dudes, is viscerally terrifying to me — even if they have three precious 3.19" boreholes through which they can get what they need to survive. I say, let's send them the parts to build virtual reality rigs and have robot surrogates topside so they can go back to their lives, if only virtually. We can't get them out of the hole for months, but it seems like we have the technology to let their minds climb out.



What would you send down that hole to 'free' these men? [Via Laughing Squid]



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