Billionaire SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted at the weekend to say he was working with cave experts to build a mini submarine out of rocket parts that he thought could help a rescue effort to free 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped for weeks in a flooded underground cave complex in Thailand. In the last […]
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Elon Musk’s kid-size submarine is headed to Thailand, but rescuers probably won’t need it
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Mini-sub to the rescue! Or, maybe not.
On Sunday afternoon, Elon Musk tweeted that the kid-size submarine his team had developed to assist with the rescue of Thai boys trapped in a cave was en route to Thailand. He expected it to arrive around 11 p.m. Monday, local time.
But phase two of the rescue is already underway, and may in fact be over by the time the sub arrives.
Mini-sub arriving in about 17 hours. Hopefully useful. If not, perhaps it will be in a future situation.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 8, 2018 Read more…
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