In the darkness, down the twisting stone tunnels and through the murky water, they awaited an uncertain future. Outside, under the skies of a modern planet, cameras and bystanders and a rapt global audience of many millions looked toward the remote hills of northern Thailand, connected by cables and satellites and wireless signals and gadgets in their pockets. For two weeks and more this went on.
United States President Donald Trump tweets in support of the rescue operation at Chiang Rai’s Tham Luang Cave, where American military personnel are providing assistance.
Elon Musk’s Space X rocket company is testing a “kid-sized submarine” that could be sent to help boys trapped in a flooded Thailand cave.
Rescuers in Thailand are no closer to deciding when and how to extract 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave complex, where they were found pale and weak but otherwise in good health, after nine days lost underground.
With news on the mission to rescue a dozen boys and their football coach in a cave in northern Thailand grabbing the nation’s attention, fake news, rumours and dramas are also poisoning the Internet, further burdening the people working in the area.
In the darkness, down the twisting stone tunnels and through the murky water, they awaited an uncertain future. Outside, under the skies of a modern planet, cameras and bystanders and a rapt global audience of many millions looked toward the remote hills of northern Thailand, connected by cables and satellites and wireless signals and gadgets in their pockets. For two weeks and more this went on.
United States President Donald Trump tweets in support of the rescue operation at Chiang Rai’s Tham Luang Cave, where American military personnel are providing assistance.
Elon Musk’s Space X rocket company is testing a “kid-sized submarine” that could be sent to help boys trapped in a flooded Thailand cave.
Rescuers in Thailand are no closer to deciding when and how to extract 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave complex, where they were found pale and weak but otherwise in good health, after nine days lost underground.
With news on the mission to rescue a dozen boys and their football coach in a cave in northern Thailand grabbing the nation’s attention, fake news, rumours and dramas are also poisoning the Internet, further burdening the people working in the area.
