ChouDoufu Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 3 minutes ago, Sydebolle said: Imagine the amulet market going absolutely over the moon (no pun intended) ...... once the first moon stones and rockets are being brought back by Somchai the Astronaut! not gonna happen. they'll be claimed by the chinese as their territory since ancient times, and will proceed to build wee, tiny bases on them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venom Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 15 hours ago, snoop1130 said: Thailand’s first lunar exploration programme is scheduled to launch on January 13 I wonder did the fortune teller mention the exact time of day? ???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newnative Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Color me in the lunacy camp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klauskunkel Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 15 hours ago, snoop1130 said: Thailand would build and launch its own spacecraft and to be inline with the PM's often touted sustainability tenet, it will be made from homegrown bamboo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 7 minutes ago, Venom said: I wonder did the fortune teller mention the exact time of day? ???? No, but the monk did 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phuketshrew Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 26 minutes ago, ChouDoufu said: where's the dual-pricing for aliens? It's in the Thai language ???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli42 Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 15 hours ago, snoop1130 said: sparked questions about Thailand’s technological capabilities Not to worry, I understand the Chinese have some mission capable used vehicles for sale. I can’t believe people are still even talking about this nonsense. Thailand will never have the technical capability to pull this off themselves. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brommers Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Nothing but a vanity project for junta members. A complete waste of money that could be far better used in supporting people who have been made virtually destitute by the pandemic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvetsKram Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Just another bad joke they will soon forget about. It would be good to help their own right now but they'd rather keep lining their own pockets 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaan sailor Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 We’ve all heard the phrase, “pie in the sky”. So now we can Re-phrase it: Thai in the sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChouDoufu Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 15 minutes ago, chilli42 said: Not to worry, I understand the Chinese have some mission capable used vehicles for sale. I can’t believe people are still even talking about this nonsense. Thailand will never have the technical capability to pull this off themselves. relax. let it go. chilli out. and remember..........in space.......no one can hear you tink too mutt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animalmagic Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Phuketshrew said: No I didn't - read the Thai. 20 baht for adults and 10 baht for kids ???? Wish I could, but my wife doesn't want me to learn the language. She'd prefer that I don't understand what's going on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harveyboy Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 16 hours ago, Liverpoolfan said: why not go to the sun instead? I mean like send the whole regime there or something. would be nice ???? yes but they would have to go at night..in the day it would be to hot ..just sayin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apetryxx Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 How about fixing the roads, cleaning up rubbish, saving the travel industry and a few other “down to Earth” projects first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rupert the bear Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 what a brilliant idea.at a time of low unemployment and the nation in such robust health physically and economically it just shows that our enlightened govt have their fingers on the nations pulse,ahh i can sleep long,deep and sound.id like to personally travel to the isaarn launch site of the deep space probe,whats it called the DRE launch pad?seems to be a bit of a problem with inter provincial travel right now.whys that?damned foreigners causing problems again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natway09 Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Correct. Total lunacy & an incredible waste of money that could be spent on much nneded earth based infrastructure or give it to Social Security Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garbol56 Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 This appears like the classic tactic of promoting an outrageous plan to divert the greater unwashed masses from the real problems at hand.???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlover Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 15 hours ago, Phuketshrew said: Looks like they made it! You forgot the 'foreign tourist' price. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozbanglamung Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 5 hours ago, Crossy said: Successful test of the launch and recovery system. This is brilliant !!!!! What I love is the complete disregard for human life with regards to where that thing was going to land (oh didn't think of that). It was pure ass it landed where it did. rotfl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 1 minute ago, ozbanglamung said: This is brilliant !!!!! What I love is the complete disregard for human life with regards to where that thing was going to land (oh didn't think of that). It was pure ass it landed where it did. rotfl At least it had a parachute so there's some semblance of "safety" (for the device not the observers, "controlled" recovery gets you extra points). If you look at some of the other videos you have a big piece of PVC pipe with an equally big lump of palm tree attached, all just falling out of the sky ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon43 Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Seriously though...... and speaking with my rocket scientist hat on ???? The article says 'build and launch'. That suggests a launch site, infrastructure and human skills necessary to launch the rocket that will carry this lunar probe. That's not going to happen in a long, long time, even if Thailand had 100% assistance from China. Then add in the launch vehicle, motors, fuel etc..... Then there's the actual lunar probe. That could be built with China's assistance, but it requires all the clean-room infrastructure, knowledge etc. Sure, Thailand already has clean rooms for semiconductor manufacture etc, but designing, building and testing a lunar probe is a tad ambitious for a nation that has zero experience in building space hardware, apart from a couple of Cubesats built with mucho assistance from countries, such as Japan. I think it's best to follow the old adage "learn to walk before you run", or more accurately for Thailand "learn to crawl before you walk".... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbbooboo Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 JOKE: Why did the Thai moon mission fail? They forgot to fill the rocket tanks with fuel ? They can’t even manage their domestic roads safely, what chance would they have with a lunar mission? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burma Bill Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 18 hours ago, snoop1130 said: whether a costly space mission is justified amid the virus-triggered economic crisis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunPer Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 It's not allowed to eat Durian in public transportation, and lots of other places, but seems to be Okay for a space snack...???? –However, it might be bad to be onboard such a space vehicle, if you don't fancy Durian, I know from personal experience how my house can smell when my girls' goes berserk with Durian-appetite...???? My first thought when reading about a Thai lunar project was – apart from I cannot figure out how a 3 billion baht budget makes it possible – that there might be several earthly projects that could be of more importance to solve...???? But of course, there are so much I don't understand about amazing Thailand...???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DREW99 Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Think of the tea money to be distributed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Croc Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Why did the Thai moon astronauts die? They didn't bother wearing helmets. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesimps Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Go to the moon, don't make me laugh. They can't even get all their road traffic to drive on the correct side, or their trains to stay on the tracks. Do they yet have a locally designed and produced car? Learn to walk before you can swim comes to mind. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phuketshrew Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Moonlover said: You forgot the 'foreign tourist' price. If you can read the Thai then you will know that I didn't. It says adults 20 baht, children 10 baht ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancho Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 I say go for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveyinasia Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Given that Moodys predicts Thailand will be last in the region to recover from these times, the last thing the country needs is a half baked idea of going to the moon. There is probably a reason why not many Asian countries have done this, it's a waste of the countries resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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