Thailand mulls plan to build own satellite

[soalbundy]

It might function for a few days, it doesn't rain in outer space

[Grumpy Duck]

21 hours ago, Captain_Bob said:

"to prepare Thailand for the 21st century" 
Didn't you guys get the memo? The 21st century started nearly 18 years ago ;-) 

Took the words from my mouth, ummm I mean post mind perhaps? 555

[Grumpy Duck]

Hmmm just more space junk to fall back to earth. Who knows where

[jaywalker]

18 minutes ago, Grumpy Duck said:

Hmmm just more space junk to fall back to earth. Who knows where

It'll probably wash up on Pattaya beach.

[Ossy]

15 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

Great! Perhaps we could use them to devise ways how to fix the pot-holed roads and how to lay electrical wires properly.

And manage to hit the litter bin with their empty coffee cups, maybe . . . instead of sending them into orbit around PTT car-park.

[lvr181]

7 hours ago, bendejo said:

Tomorrow's News Today!!

 

Dateline 2068:  Thailand's Siam III space capsule collides with a piece of space junk, pilot immediately opens the hatch and makes a run for it, abandoning other occupants of the spaceship.  RTPF investigators say it was due to the behavior of the farang foreign object.  They also said the pilot, who was not wearing a spacesuit, is no where to be found, and may have been apprehended by Vulcans or Klingons.

 

 

Not sure where Vulcans come from but I think Klingons are from Uranus? 

[DM07]

In other related news:

Thailand also mulls plans  to ...

- build a teleportation- device

- make time-travel possible

 

 

[wvavin]

Never ending spending. These clowns know nuts about managing a country but keep spending the taxpayers’ money.

[lvr181]

1 hour ago, wvavin said:

Never ending spending. These clowns know nuts about managing a country but keep spending the taxpayers’ money.

"... but keep spending the taxpayers’ money."

 

Possibly because some friends will be the recipients of this largess, in this land of entitlements? 

[Artisi]

On ‎28‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 10:35 AM, coulson said:

Good job. I look forward to Thailand moving into the 21st Century

into the 20th would be a great start.

[pumpjack]

is it april allready ?

[Artisi]

23 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

- 80% of the country's class rooms lack proper tuition materials;

- half of the so-called "medical centers" dotted around the countryside are little more than poorly equipped first-aid stations;

- the overwhelming majority of motorists have practically zero training;

- a properly functioning certification system to ensure road vehicle maintenance and safety is not in place;

- there are neither enough waste water treatment plants nor professionally managed land fills to handle the kingdom's tremendous amounts of sewage and garbage;

- a huge proportion of Thailand's roads are in a deplorable state;

- power lines are generally a tangled, dangerous mess that causes frequent blackouts, and earthing electrical equipment is almost entirely unknown;

- state employees including teachers and police officers are paid a pittance in salaries (which induces corruption);

- elderly citizens have to make do with $20 worth or less of monthly pension;

- the alleged "universal healthcare" system is flawed through and through and badly financed;

- and etcetera etcetera etcetera

 

But hey, you know what?... Instead of fixing all those important things (and many more) first, let's rather waste over a quarter of a billion baht of public money to "pursue earth exploration and research ambitions."

 

Thailand, a typical Third World country that consistently sets itself all the wrong development priorities. 

 

and the need for aircraft carrier and submarines so it follows that satellites are an urgent requirement ... 

[Artisi]

7 minutes ago, pumpjack said:

is it april allready ?

everyday , just really a need to outdo each other - chicken essence was a difficult one to beat, but this latest on is good , really good.

[Just Weird]

On ‎12‎/‎28‎/‎2017 at 10:20 AM, Thian said:

A country which can't even build an electric system which works during rain and can't buy new citybuses shouldn't even think of building satellites.

Thailand's electrical supply does work during rain and the country can buy buses.  It's 3rd parties that try to scam the country that bugger things up.

[Ossy]

On ‎28‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 10:03 AM, webfact said:

Minister of Science and Technology, Suvit Maesincee attended a meeting on Wednesday with executives of all related offices under the ministry’s supervision, during which he provided an update on the issues discussed during this week’s Cabinet Retreat in Sukhothai Province. 

Mr. Suvit said that the Cabinet touched on a mission to implement all government initiatives under the Pracharat policy to inspire children and the country's youth to become more interested in science and technology while helping find capable individuals to prepare Thailand for the 21st century. 

The minister added that the government is particularly keen on pursuing a Big Bang plan, which is a small satellite project for domestic use, comprised of a 100-kilogram satellite for Earth exploration and a research satellite that would weigh between 50 kilograms and 100 kilograms. 

Mr. Suvit said that the budgets for the two units are estimated at 400 million baht and 375 million baht, respectively. 

News just in: SM of the MST concluded the update with news that the satellite project had been up-scaled and drew cheers from the press by announcing that Prawit had just called, excited at having agreed with NASA to buy one of their old spaceships - they're just rotting away in the desert - and, provided that Prayut will pay all launch costs, he - Prawit - will be the one-man crew . . . an almost human satellite, you might say.

 

SM's phone rings at that point: "Ladies and gentlemen; that was NASA. Prayut, it seems, was quick to agree to pay the costs  . . . but one-way only. Well, there's a thing!

[Hutch68]

They should concentrate on getting there scarecrows right first.


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[PETERTHEEATER]

It will have a red plate attached enabling it to orbit the Earth a twice the speed of any other.....

[Borzandy]

On 28/12/2017 at 10:20 AM, Thian said:

A country which can't even build an electric system which works during rain and can't buy new citybuses shouldn't even think of building satellites.

you just have to bet where he will fall

[Redline]

I give them 10 years-that would be 70 years from the first satellite in orbit-sounds about right