Thai at Heart Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Father Christmas testing his new sled? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRSoul Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Don't know if this has anything to do with the explosions but I live around 500 metres from Surin airfield and every week I see the Thai drone take off and then return around one and half hour later. This happens every week flying over the disputed area. This morning it left around 7 am and has not returned as yet so maybe and I only say maybe there has been a problem with the Drone plane The Thai's have a drone! Now that is scary! Sent from my Nexus 7 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app It's OK, she just resigned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRSoul Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 50cm seems pretty big for an artillery shell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casindonet Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Yes they do have a drone. I have been here 5 years near the airfield and they take it from the army camp some 2km away to the airfield. I have seen this numerous times and I can say that it is not armed and only used for areal photographs. You cannot fail to miss it taking off and landing as it is one noisy plane. They sit on the runway 15 minuets on high revs which I presume must be to get the grid references for take off and landing. It takes off and spirals upwards until desired height then disappears for over 1 hour Can you please post a picture? I am absolutely fascinated that Thailand has a drone. So yeah I guess if it crashed a story would have to be invented. But a satellite crashing is a pretty weak cover story.... :-) Thailand do have drones....1 is stationed in surin airport. Seen it....heard it....noisy little bugger. Sounds more like those huge rc model planes....Sent from my GT-I9200 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halion Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 This is total crap and just another example of how this government willfully misleads the public and it also highlights the contempt they have for the average intelligence of this nation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestro Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Removed an unitelligible post about f'langs (sic) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerdee123 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 (edited) We heard 7-8 explosions What precisely did the "satellite" hit? Perhaps it was the "drone" ...oops I mean "satellite" .... that was hit ..... perhaps by Cambodian anti-aircraft fire .... perhaps? Edited December 10, 2013 by rogerdee123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harleys Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 By any chance was "Made in China" stamped on any of the pieces? Of course. Let's not forget to pull the Chinese into this. And how much do you think would they care about your "please let me be dumb, too" statement? So go ahead and proof yourself, say something, even if it's that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belg Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 i hope it was the shin sattelite so this crap from aboard controlling the country could end sleep on 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaideeguy Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 It should be quite easy to ID the 5 pieces of metal that fell from the sky and if it was a Thai drone, then the Khmers should have something to bitch about [with evidence]. There is a lot of difference between drone parts and satellite parts that even a layman could detect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggold Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Right on the border. The Thai disputed area. Remarkable satellite re-entry. Doesn't the space agency release notices of impending satellite crashes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willyumiii Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Reminds me of an episode of a TV show years ago. A guy was killed by a falling satellite. A guy comments " I can't believe how lucky he was! " "What do you mean lucky? He is dead!" " Yeah, but what are the odds of getting hit by a satellite? He's lucky!" What are the odds of a satellite hitting the same location twice? These people are very, very lucky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techboy Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 (edited) Lovely, fantastic, exciting ... Once again, Thailand educates the rest of the world Medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellite sustain orbital altitudes of 1,200 to 35,792 kilometers (746 to 22,240 miles) above Earth's surface lasting 12 hours per orbit. Satellites in semi-synchronous orbit, used for GPS satellites, maintain a height of 26,560 kilometers (16,504 miles) above Earth's surface. Thailand says; "WRONG" A satellite orbits Earth when its speed is balanced by the pull of Earth's gravity. Without this balance, the satellite would fly in a straight line off into space or fall back to Earth. Satellites orbit Earth at different heights, different speeds and along different paths. The two most common types of orbit are "geostationary" and "polar." Thailand says; "WRONG AGAIN" - satellites are placed next to Thai/Cambodian border so every nearby village members can hear any explosion. A geostationary satellite travels from west to east over the equator. It moves in the same direction and at the same rate Earth is spinning. From Earth, a geostationary satellite looks like it is standing still since it is always above the same location. Take a guess what "Smart" Thailand would say again! Thailand ... who on earth gave you the permission to be so arrogant to believe the rest of the world's experts are all dumb? After reading this article several times I do not understand what you are rebuking, particularly in the context of the news story and what the Thai authorities have said. You have pasted in text from enlightened sources to demonstrate that you know what you are talking about and the result is entirely the opposite. (A "malfunction" might occur (perhaps in the orbital correction system) and a satellite fall prematurely. That being said, I am frankly sceptical that the bangs came from a satellite- but your post is nonetheless antagonistic and annoyingly ignorant). Your first paste, about MEO satellites- Yeah, so? Your second paste. So yes, satellites are kept in orbit by a balance between their velocity and the Earth's gravity. What is your point? Do you believe that this means that the orbit does not decay and that the object will not eventually fall back to earth? (You would probably go catatonic if I informed you that at each moment all of our satellites are falling towards the earth). And it is your own assumption that the theorized satellite was said to be over the Thai Cambodian Border. If a geostationary satellite falls to earth on the Thai- Cambodian border its orbital synchronization was likely somewhere else. I will let you figure that out yourself. (Hint: the planet rotates and there is friction). Your third cut & paste is a blatant exposure of your lack of knowledge- proof that you are clipping information concerning something about which you are highly ignorant. FYI- Hundreds of geostationary satellites form a large network- a constellation- over this planet- They do not move only above the equator! Harleys: Who on earth gave you the permission to be so arrogant and ignorant to believe that you can berate someone by attacking them with technical knowledge that you do not comprehend. It is bad enough that many Thai bashers will twist truths that they are cognizant of. But in this case your application of facts is more like a monkey trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle of the Taj Mahal. Edited December 10, 2013 by techboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chao Lao Beach Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 2nd time this has happened !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestro Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Removed a flame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebell Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Don't know if this has anything to do with the explosions but I live around 500 metres from Surin airfield and every week I see the Thai drone take off and then return around one and half hour later. This happens every week flying over the disputed area. This morning it left around 7 am and has not returned as yet so maybe and I only say maybe there has been a problem with the Drone plane The Thai's have a drone! Now that is scary! Sent from my Nexus 7 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app They have hundreds in Government House. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zyphodb Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Satellite???!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canman Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Don't know if this has anything to do with the explosions but I live around 500 metres from Surin airfield and every week I see the Thai drone take off and then return around one and half hour later. This happens every week flying over the disputed area. This morning it left around 7 am and has not returned as yet so maybe and I only say maybe there has been a problem with the Drone plane The Thai's have a drone! Now that is scary! Sent from my Nexus 7 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app Possibly, not any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart21 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 (edited) Removed an unitelligible post about f'langs (sic) Show me a dictionary with an accepted 'correct' spelling. Just because it is unintelligible to you does not mean it is unintelligible to others. Edited December 11, 2013 by Stuart21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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