RE: THUNDERBIRDS are NOT GO! - at least not yet
The saddest thing is that, even with tons of money, the Thunderbirds could not be a reality.
A huge boring machine... it does not work. Such a thing would most certainly kill the trapped miners on its way to excavate the miners.
But really, we have so many giving to red cross and other humanitarian aid... and they have nothing.
Have you seen the red cross hospital boat? That looks more like a prison? And gets shipped places... where it looks like it is never used... accept to harvest organs?
Lets look at something that happened in america. Hurricane Harvey. And the lack of water that ensued. So, why wasn't truckloads of water being shipped their before the huricane ever made landfall? Why wasn't truck loads of food being shipped their?
Well, part of the reason is, we do not have extra food, nor do we have extra trucks. All the trucks used in hauling food are already used up hauling food. They do not sit idle.
But, there were all kinds of other trucks, and trailers. But we had no one putting out calls to truckers saying $50 an hour if you show up here and haul water there.
Everything in the world is a just in time practice.
So, if you want to make sure your family survives a catastrophe. You have to store it all yourself.
Yes indeed, you convey the sadness of the situation that I tried to express in this post. I know the boring machine would not have worked - it was a children´s tv show - but the point was that the wealth in the world could easily have hired genius designers, engineers to create specialised machines for times of disasters. If there is a will there is always a way. The problem is, and this was the main point I was trying to make, we just do not have the will or desire to help others because we have become ever more selfish instead of altruistic.
Always appreciate your input my good fellow @builderof castles