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SpaceX isn't some magical company with a warehouse full of equipment that's better than anywhere else in the world. It's hardly like the Thai's are using bucke
by toomanybeersies 8y ago
SpaceX isn't some magical company with a warehouse full of equipment that's better than anywhere else in the world.
It's hardly like the Thai's are using buckets to drain the cave, they'll already have the highest capacity pumps they can find.
A pump for pumping rocket fuel into a rocket is very different to the kind of pump you'd use to pump out a cave. For a start, rocket fuel isn't filled with grit and other bits.
- maxerickson 8y agoauthorities on Friday estimated they have pumped out more than 35 million gallons in the past week https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/07/06/cave-rescues-q-how-thai-situation-happened/764227002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/07/06/cave-rescues-...
- iamgopal 8y agoHow many gallons in it ? If they have point of drain, i.e. anything below lowest point of water body of that depth, pumping is the best solution.
- misnome 8y agoI don’t have the citation, but recall reading that the water level is only going down about a centimetre per hour. With more heavy rains on the way, CO2 levels spiking, and uncertainties about the ledge they are on, it seems they have decided they don’t have the time.