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Prairieboy

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  1. 19 hours ago, ExpatDraco said:

    The last few days a lot of tents have been setup for (undoubtedly) Covid in and around Pattaya. But what is their purpose? I only see the people (police and health care workers?) in there looking at their smartphones... No checks or anything.

    Smart phone screens are difficult to see in the bright sunlight so the tents are there to provide shade and make it easier to 'surf the net'.

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  2. On 12/31/2020 at 12:20 PM, webfact said:

    charged with offences ranging from illegal entry to contravening the emergency decree to illegal congregation to gambling. 

     

    On 12/31/2020 at 12:32 PM, robblok said:

    Though the headline is right its a bit misleading.

     

    It suggest that Thais and migrants were caught for gambling and only the migrants were detained. This is not true if you read the article it says that nobody was detained for the gambling but that the migrants were all illegal in Thailand.


    So its only logical that they are detained.  The headline almost makes it out that there were two standards applied.

    Reread the OP

  3. 21 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

    The school apologises for the incident and is sorry for what happened.

    Perhaps it is the parents who should apologise to the school for failure to discipline their children in the home.  Too many children, when at home, act with impunity knowing there will be no reprimands regardless of their actions - spoiled brats!

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  4. On 12/26/2020 at 9:36 AM, rooster59 said:

    The spacecraft will travel at 11 kilometres per hour to the moon, before slowing to enter lunar orbit at 2kph.

    To travel the 384,400 km to the moon at 11 kph will take 4 years - many of the cars on the highways have already attempted flight but at a much greater speed. (Note:  They all failed to achieve orbit!) 

     

    In theoretical terms, the escape velocity at the surface of Earth is 11.2 km per second (6.96 miles per second).  The lunar orbital speed for Apollo 11 was about 1.6 km/sec

     

    I wonder if Minister Anek Laothamatas may have confused the rate of speed?  I hope the space ship designers are more astute!

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