BlueSkyCowboy Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Wow I'm at a loss - are these top military officers really that ignorant or is this a clumsy PR attempt by some government agency facilitated by what could only be described as inept journalism and a deliberately undereducated populace? Are you talking about American media and stupified population in general or Barry from Hawaii specifically?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlennSlayden Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Looks nothing like a satellite, which are norally made from very light construction, I used to build them. More like fuselage of an old plane. A low-earth orbit satellite is geo-stationary, but they don't tend to just fall vertically from their position if a defunct one falls back to earth. If I may, a low-earth orbit (~200-300 miles) at (~17,000 miles per hour) is not geo-stationary. Geo-stationary orbits are 22,500 miles. However, you are correct that in both cases, they never fall vertically down. The geo-stationary orbits will decay first, causing them to have great speed also. The point is that if this was a satellite (which I doubt also based on footage I saw on Thai TV, because it looked like heavy steel construction) then it could have belonged to any country in the world. To me it looked like (ocean) ship parts that had seen an explosion, and I wondered if the whole thing was a hoax... or just a countryside dumping ground Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DtemJai Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 We are not alone in the universe -- and alien life forms may have a lot more in common with life on Earth than we had previously thought . We have invited 100 experts and have issued a general invitation to over 5,000 scientists from the scientific community come to Thailand, the chief says. According to Space.com, Russia's troubled, toxic fuel-loaded Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which is stuck in low-Earth orbit due to an engine failure rather than on its way to Mars, appears to be doomed, with small pieces of the wayward probe already falling to Earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SICHONSTEVE Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Satellite parts do not use bolts (see in photos). They use welding. Those parts looks like old soviet tanks. It's quite obvious what it is!!! It's debris from one of Thaksin's old Shincorp satellites - he doesn't go away does he!!!!!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SICHONSTEVE Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Wow I'm at a loss - are these top military officers really that ignorant or is this a clumsy PR attempt by some government agency facilitated by what could only be described as inept journalism and a deliberately undereducated populace? YES on all accounts - it is probably to deflect attention away from "Thaksin's amnesty". Next up is a personal visit by 'the real and authentic santa to deliver a christmas present to Thaksin - Ohh sorry!!! that's already happened, I believe they gave him a small thin blue book with his photo in it as an early christmas present. He was absolutely delighted with such a simple gift reportedly, as they took it from him about two years ago apparently!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Screws Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 (edited) "I used to build them". ........................"A low-earth orbit satellite is geo-stationary" Geostationary orbit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit - Cached A geostationary orbit, or Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO), is a circular orbit 35786 km (22236 mi) above the Earth's equator and following the direction of the........... Yeah, I used to design 'em too - on the back of an envelope - Nasa always paid me millions for my designs, check 'em out at the Smithsonian - Edited December 24, 2011 by Screws Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maseratimartin Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 That is what happens if people throw away their waste every where in the country.... Some time later somebaody will find it and think the Aliens arrived! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard10365 Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 I'm sure if there were any real satallite experts, they wouldn't be members of ThaiVisa...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anterian Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 That is definitely a submarine port-hole. A Thai navy experiment gone horribly wrong. Looks more like a bathysphere to me, probably left over from the floods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidon Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 There is another story http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011122353582/National-news/police-claim-debris-from-thai-aircraft.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTGTR Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 So apparently an old Soviet tank fell from space. Satellite parts do not use bolts (see in photos). They use welding. Those parts looks like old soviet tanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haveaniceday Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 nice yellow paint after re-entry, give it a break !!!! The link above prob more correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h90 Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Looks nothing like a satellite, which are norally made from very light construction, I used to build them. More like fuselage of an old plane. A low-earth orbit satellite is geo-stationary, but they don't tend to just fall vertically from their position if a defunct one falls back to earth. geo-stationary are at very high orbits, not low orbits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gk10002000 Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 You might be surprised how "bolty" some parts of rockets are. But I do love the poster that commented on Buster Krabbe and the old Flash Gordon short movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lannarebirth Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 nice yellow paint after re-entry, give it a break !!!! The link above prob more correct. So it's a Yellow Submarine then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackthorn2005 Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 It's come off Santa's sleigh! Nice one, here was me thinking it looked similar to the lalien space ship that abducted me last year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginjag Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Last time I saw a satellite that looked anything like that was in the Buster Crabbe film version of Flash Gordon I have an Idea it was part of emperor Mings ship, Ha Ha,,,,, was that about 10 years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxyz Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 it does not look like it came through reentry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginjag Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 It's come off Santa's sleigh! Nice one, here was me thinking it looked similar to the lalien space ship that abducted me last year! The German submarine purchase, I think they were parachuting them in on the quiet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mosha Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Next year UFO hunters will be filming an episode in Si Sa Ket, and looking for Thailand's area 51. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obiwan Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 There is a better picture in the Bankok Post. And it really looks like rocket debris like on the following pages. http://www.lisa-alissova.net/LISA_ALISSOVA/ALTAI_1.html http://www.eclipsetours.com/sat/STAR481.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AleG Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 It's probably debris from a Chinese rocket, they have at least one launching facility directly to the North of Thailand, on a polar orbit launch the path from the Xichang launching site may cross over Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia; although it probably would be aimed to go across the Tonkin Gulf, so that the discarded stages fall in the sea. Mind you, it was probably a military launch so we shouldn't expect China to say a word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thai at Heart Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Considering this is an area with an awful lot of army activity, shouldn't there be ONE radar station that would have tracked this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinellerton Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 For those of you who have been relating this story to the satellite debris that came out in the news yesterday in Namibia, thinking it might be the same satellite... Follow the links to the actual source article. "The ball, which has no markings, has a circumference of 110cm and made a loud exploding sound when it landed in late November in the Omusati region, a relatively populated part of the vast southern African nation." It just came out in the news but it crashed about a month ago. Can't be the same satellite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparebox2 Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Next year UFO hunters will be filming an episode in Si Sa Ket, and looking for Thailand's area 51. What area 51? Do you mean area 2.4 sq km? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elcent Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 and I thought that was from the steam powered era of spaceflight some 300 years ago ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballpoint Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 For those of you who have been relating this story to the satellite debris that came out in the news yesterday in Namibia, thinking it might be the same satellite... Follow the links to the actual source article. "The ball, which has no markings, has a circumference of 110cm and made a loud exploding sound when it landed in late November in the Omusati region, a relatively populated part of the vast southern African nation." It just came out in the news but it crashed about a month ago. Can't be the same satellite. It could have been a 3G satellite. It just arrived in Thailand a lot later than it did in Africa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Payboy Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 That is definitely a submarine port-hole. A Thai navy experiment gone horribly wrong. Looks more like a bathysphere to me, probably left over from the floods. Could be a Turkish bathysphere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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