KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, USA — NASA, the space agency of the United States, confirmed today that the estimated 455,000 posters erected in Bangkok as part of campaigning for this weekend’s parliamentary elections form a continuous structure which is visible from space. Responding to an unofficial report that began circulating on the internet last week, NASA spokesperson Wilford Breech officially confirmed that astronauts aboard the International Space Station had spotted the structure during a routine spacewalk.
According to Breech, Expedition 10 commander Leroy Chiao, a veteran of many space shuttle missions , and Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov, both observed a “whitish, snakelike structure with flecks of yellow and pink” that was located between the Gulf of Thailand and the Mekong Delta. Further observations, corroborated by GPS location, confirmed that it was the Thai capital city, which Sharipov reportedly described as looking “buried under dirty Siberian tundra.”
Chiao added that the brightest part of the election-poster object appeared to be at GPS coordinates 14°31’232″ N, 100°54’917″E, where Sharipov’s “dirty tundra” was, in his words, “brighter than a polar ice cap.” By using the ISS’s high-powered telescope, Chiao managed to capture a hyper-zoomed image of the bright area, which NASA scientists later deciphered as former Matchimatipataya Party and current independent candidate Leena Jangjanja’s teeth.
