[SPAM] Youngest Pilot Selected For Mission To Mars By NASA
Image of Mansoor Anis, youngest pilot is shared with false captions on social media. Please read more about it in verification section of this article.
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Below post has been circulating on social media.
“The youngest pilot in the world is a Sri Lankan. The name is Tharaka Ramasinghe. Lives in California. Age 14. He already has an Airbus 380 license. NASA has already been selected and trained to be part of a team selected by NASA to populate Mars in 2035.
“Don’t you feel a sense of pride when you know that a Sinhalese in our country is going to Mars?”
Child.”
Verification: The image shared is of Mansoor Anis, the youngest pilot in 2017. He is not selected by NASA for any mission
The post is circulating with false claims. The captions are in sinhala Language.
“ලෝකයේ ලාබාලම නියමුවා ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයෙකි. නම තාරකා රාමසිංහ. කැලිෆෝනියාවේ ජීවත් වේ. වයස 14. ඔහු දැනටමත් එයාර් බස් 380 බලපත්‍රය සතුව ඇත. 2035 දී අඟහරු ග්‍රහයා ජනගහනය කිරීම සඳහා නාසා ආයතනය විසින් තෝරාගෙන ඇති කණ්ඩායමේ කොටසක් වීමට දැනටමත් තෝරාගෙන ඇති අතර පුහුණුව ලබමින් සිටී.
“අපේ රටේ සිංහලයෙක් අඟහරු ගහණයට යන බව ඔබ දැනගත් විට ඔබට සියුම් ආඩම්බරයක් දැනෙන්නේ නැද්ද? මෙය තරුණයින්ට ප්‍රාර්ථනාවක් සමඟ බෙදා ගන්න
ළමා.”
Google Translation to the above text in the viral post:
“The youngest pilot in the world is a Sri Lankan. The name is Tharaka Ramasinghe. Lives in California. Age 14. He already has an Airbus 380 license. NASA has already been selected and trained to be part of a team selected by NASA to populate Mars in 2035.
“Don’t you feel a sense of pride when you know that a Sinhalese in our country is going to Mars?”
Child.”
Caption given to the image of Mansoor Anis, youngest pilot in 2017, is not true. There is no information about his selection by NASA for any mission to Mars. The name is wrong and so are the claims. Mirror image is shared with fake claims. Check the links below to know the fact:
Mansoor Anis: Read more
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Youngest Pilot Selected For Mission To Mars By NASA I Nokiye
Post Date: 22 Dec 2019
Post ID: #75004
