Who would have ever thought that a celebrity like Elon Musk ( who has quite a bit of respect in the tech world ), would get into a public spat with the diver who was most familiar with the cave - publicly calling the caver "pedo guy" for the whole world to see.
I had no problem with Musk or the Thai divers testing the rescue-device in the cave. In fact, it seemed like a good idea to at least test it to show the effort was sincere, and that it wasn't feasible for this particular rescue. Maybe someday, it will work in a similar but larger cave. Or maybe they can sell it to give tourist a ride through a sump somewhere. Mr. Unsworth clearly came across as an a**-hole in his recent interview, or that at least he misspoke. I can imagine, though, that a possible rescue was stalled while the plans to work out a pod-capsule were thoroughly considered and that p*ssed him off for numerous reasons, because he knew it would never work and nobody was probably listening to him. It also seems plausible, that he is disgruntled because at least 2 weeks of his life were spent in misery there, patiently waiting for things that normally do not take so long, and that he likely had to pay for all of his expenses during the time he spent there. He should have waited to write his book, than to get all nasty in the interview telling Elon publicly to use his rescue-device as a his own personal enema or that Elon deserved to be expelled from the cave. I can only assume that Elon was upset enough to dig up some dirt on Mr. Unsworth's extracurricular activities in Thailand, where it is common for men to experiment with the culture there with things that are not normal in other places in the world. After all, Elon probably spent a million dollars on all that, postponing critical work to his hyper-loop. So now the question is what will be the next ironic twist ? and will that be in the movie ? My guess, is that the movie will have a name like: Had the boys been able to remain at Pattaya Beach ( Chamber 3 ?? ), this rescue would have been far less dramatic. But apparently, the boys had already gone too far in and could not get back to Pattaya Beach. D.L.
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