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I know you said clearly you'd defer to the divers, and I point that out in my piece. But rescuers hate high profile interventions & VIP visits etc. Quiet, background development is great, publicity is not) because they're also fighting a million officials with own ideas/agendas.+

I was once in the middle of an earthquake rescue with an amazing team. Politest people. Their lives on the line. Humble. Years later, I just don't have words. Literally the biggest problem they faced was local officials, politicians & celebs who butted in. Even if well meaning.+

Officials pull/push actual rescuers. Sub as a back-up option (are people still working on it with domain experts?) is great to explore quietly, but the thing they fear is that an official comes and overrules the rescuers. Try this flashy thing! Happens to disastrous consequence.

We had someone important and famous land with a @#$@!! helicopter to the earthquake zone to "support our work and improve our morale." At that point, we were working round the clock next to a burning refinery and the biggest challenge was establishing silence to listen for life.+

These rescuers I had been working, who were so humble, polite and expert—and who accepted everything and just worked and worked at great risk to themselves, climbing into rubble in the middle of 6.5+ aftershocks.. I learned more English curse words that day than since or before.+

I've too-long for Twitter stories on how hard it was to keep officials on track and from meddling wrongly. Anyway, the lesson I took is that publicity—even well-meaning—and anything flashy that officials might be attracted to during a rescue is dangerous. Many stories like that.+

Take from all this, my piece, my thread, his irritation what you want, but we're all human and my two-cents is that too many people blindly cheer-on wealthy/famous people, and want saviors, and we're all worse off for it, and the wealthy famous people perhaps worst. /end

What do you mean by “Pedo?” Dead serious question.

How about you stfu

Elon wont be your friend

Nah he's taking me to mars in a rocket powered by apartheid emeralds.

Please delete that. Calling someone pedo is not cool

He will delete it once he comes down from whatever drug he is on...

Ohhhhh okay. So, you expect him to take shit from people daily on some trivial bullshit, talking to him like a monster when he's only trying to put his status to good use for the world and not once slip and lose his cool? Stfu. If you were being hounded 4 weeks would be chill ??

People called rightly Musk an idiot because he inserted himself into a situation where he wasn't needed and try to play the hero. Not a monster. And his response is to call one of the real heroes a pedofile?

That seems like the accurate read, yes

you're missing the part where he wants to send his "submarine" into that exact cave to prove his point... alongside with cave divers as its not self propelled I guess. good luck finding volunteers after one dead and insulting that cave expert

This was a rescue mission not an opportunity to “prove a point”