Dsi1 wrote:

> If it was a choice between working deep underground or ripping the
> earth apart, I'd say rip away. No man should have to work deep in
> the earth .

My one grandfather and his father did that for their entire working
life...about 50 years each.

I got to see the inside of that mine once. Dark, damp and a tunnel going
way underground that mountain.

That would be a scary place to work all your life.