While the whole world was excited to watch a broadcast of Pluto’s big heart on YouTube yesterday, keyboard trolls showed off the old Thai pride by spamming NASA’s international educational session with nonsense in Thai.
NASA broadcast live images of the dwarf planet via YouTube from its New Horizon satellite at 5pm yesterday and opened up a chat box for science geeks and experts to have some Plutonic academic discussions, which proved a wrong move after Thai trolls disrupted it.
These are were the Thai comments about the latest discovery in astronomy:
“Before you watch Pluto, let’s see some porn first *link attached*”
“When’s the Liverpool match again?”
“What Pluto? Mickey Mouse’s dog?”
“Your fathers are all dead!”
“Is there weed in Pluto?”
Very funny, guys.
The astronomical world was awaiting this moment since the New Horizon project took off in 2006. After 10 years of space flight, when the 30 minutes of closest approach came, the trolls urinated all over it just as NASA’s chief administrator sat down in front of the camera.
Many Thais, who were beyond embarrassed, called foul on the trolling by publicizing it on Pantip with screenshots of the chat.
“Stop it, please. This kind of ‘Thainess’ is not cool!” the user who started the thread wrote.
Some were concerned NASA might block Thai IP addresses from future broadcasts.
“They’re so gonna block our country, and the people who actually want to educate themselves won’t be able to,” Kaosang wrote.
Bye Thailand, said Pluto.
