Old responses (6 of 6)
On Tue, 18 May 2021 10:39:55 -0400, Michael Trew >
wrote:
>On 5/18/2021 8:50 AM, Gary wrote:
>> Dsi1 wrote:
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>> > If it was a choice between working deep underground or ripping the
>> > earth apart, I'd say rip away. No man should have to work deep in
>> > the earth .
>>
>> My one grandfather and his father did that for their entire working
>> life...about 50 years each.
>>
>> I got to see the inside of that mine once. Dark, damp and a tunnel going
>> way underground that mountain.
>>
>> That would be a scary place to work all your life.
>>
>>
>>
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>There are abandoned coal mines near me... many concerns back in the old
>days. I'd be concerned about a collapse, but primarily as you get
>deeper, hitting natural gas pockets. I used to work for a company
>(Industrial Scientific) making hand-held gas detectors. I learned here
>that miners years ago used to send children (so they didn't risk losing
>a full grown man that could work) into mines with a parakeet... when the
>parakeet quit squawking and fell, best get out of there! Thank God for
>modern gas detectors, and child labor laws.
Canary. Hence the term, "Canary in a coal mine."
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