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feraloink · 1789660990 · focus · HN ↗
This is better than the Magic 8-ball. I DO like the visuals after clicking the Magic 8-ball though!
darknavi · 1789661734 · focus · HN ↗
> WHO IS IN SPACE is a project created by Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day and Geoff Barrett.
Neat. Destin has a great talk that he gave to/at NASA about Artemis a few years ago.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU
bobson_dugnutt5 · 1789662110 · focus · HN ↗
Lai Ka-Ying. Nominative determinism!
1. dima55 · 1789663849 · focus · HN ↗
  "Laika" is the generic dog name in Russian. Means "barker".
hamdingers · 1789662465 · focus · HN ↗
Reminds me of the original: <a href="https://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/
1. bbbrad · 1789666498 · focus · HN ↗
  I appreciate you recognizing us as the OG. We've tracked every launch since 2009!
  Who is in space, they seem like nice people, I love the Smarter Every Day crew. (They actually tried to buy my domain years ago.) Pretty lame that they're running those insane Starlink ads but it is what it is.
  1. jedberg · 1789677435 · focus · HN ↗
    One thing I like better about this one is that it breaks it down by mission and location. Would be a cool improvement to your site.
    bbbrad · 1789678352 · focus · HN ↗
    I also think that would be pretty cool. But, I think one of the things that people have loved about my site is that it really just sticks to answering the question that the URL asks and tries not to get lost in the read-more sauce. At one point we had an iOS app that had more information (and notifications!) but that thing hasn't been updated in a long time.
2. asdfman123 · 1789667159 · focus · HN ↗
  I feel like this post is just an AI slop copy of that site designed to grab free ad revenue.
  I've flagged it and recommend others do the same.
3. ramshorns · 1789673742 · focus · HN ↗
  I liked checking that website, until it listed the Artemis II crew for weeks after they came back. Now I have no idea how accurate it is; I don't know what other source to compare it to.
  But maybe there's a more reliable method it uses for tracking the ISS astronauts, and the Artemis II needed more human input or something. For what it's worth, both websites currently list the same ten astronauts.
  1. bbbrad · 1789678232 · focus · HN ↗
    Yeah you're not wrong. I've updated this site by hand since 2009. There's not one data source so for a long time I was that data source. I'll be honest: I got kind of soul-crushed when Bezos and Elon started sending people up in a way that just started to feel really dirty to me. Honestly I hated updating the site, then having to update it again an hour later every time Bezos sent someone up. It's only been in the last year that I've started keeping it current.
4. abejfehr · 1789764166 · focus · HN ↗
  It's disappointing that a YouTuber who presumably doesn't need extra cash resorted to an ad-ridden copy of this great, ad-free, already-existing site.
zatkin · 1789663286 · focus · HN ↗
This website is unusable without closing out advertisements upon advertisements...
1. eek2121 · 1789663447 · focus · HN ↗
  Maybe you should create whoisinspacewithnoads.com? :D
  1. ASalazarMX · 1789665664 · focus · HN ↗
    How about a new TLD, .noads?
2. baublet · 1789663903 · focus · HN ↗
  Yeah warning to mobile users, too. Basically unusable website because of the ads.
  I miss the ad free web.
3. wowthatsucks · 1789664039 · focus · HN ↗
  Interesting. I don't see any ads, even with my ad blocker turned off.
wildzzz · 1789664221 · focus · HN ↗
Those SpaceX suit photos look dumb. I very much prefer the traditional look of the Russian and Chinese crew photos.
1. xattt · 1789664461 · focus · HN ↗
  They remind me of a “face-in-the-hole” board (1) photo.
  (1) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_stand-in" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_stand-in
  1. wildzzz · 1789772119 · focus · HN ↗
    Haha you're right. They look like they are from a cheap Sci-Fi original.
ChrisArchitect · 1789664301 · focus · HN ↗
Anyone else read this as WHOIS in space? Was ready to find out which TLDs had Galactic Coordinates for contact details
1. TimC123456 · 1789672008 · focus · HN ↗
  Yes! That’s what I was hoping for when I clicked on it, too!
reynard_le_faux · 1789664383 · focus · HN ↗
We’re all in space bro
1. probablyStimmed · 1789666407 · focus · HN ↗
  Whoisdangerouslyfarfromthesurfaceofearth.com doesn’t have the same ring.
bcorigliano · 1789664686 · focus · HN ↗
A good concept, I like it! But pleas make ads less invasive. I understand we all need to pay our bills, but that shouldn't interfere with the user experience. Besides that, I didn't know there were so many guys in space as we speak!
1. dosshell · 1789666928 · focus · HN ↗
  Someone on HN that does not use ad block? This is still so confusing for me. Why not spend 40 seconds and never see any ads more?
  1. hectdev · 1789667737 · focus · HN ↗
    Or AdGuard on a Raspberry Pi paired with Tailscale and never see ads on any machines you own again even on cellular.
    brewtide · 1789697987 · focus · HN ↗
    I have these both installed as 'extensions' on my homeassistant.vm and it works wonderfully. Any device that is on my local network, ads blocked. If I want to access my home network and/or block ads when mobile, tailscale gets connected, ads blocked. highest of recommendation, I agree.
  2. r0m4n0 · 1789668118 · focus · HN ↗
    Some reasons I don't use them anymore (in no specific order)
    1. I have had them subtly mess with websites I am working on and I probably wasted multiple hours troubleshooting an issue that wasn't an issue
    2. I have had them break a web form when I was trying to purchase something
    3. I have purchased some things I like from ads and wouldn't have discovered otherwise
    4. I don't frequent websites that overuse them or I can't work around them
    5. I'm on a work laptop sometimes and I'm not allowed to use them for corp security reasons
    6. I'm not sure I trust the ad blockers themselves, their developers, or their own app security
    7. It's another process that can slow down viewing a webpage
    spiderice · 1789669466 · focus · HN ↗
    > 7. It's another process that can slow down viewing a webpage
    I guess.. just like how wearing a seatbelt could end up killing you. Doesn't mean the exact opposite isn't a million times more likely.
    applfanboysbgon · 1789669494 · focus · HN ↗
    > 1. I have had them subtly mess with websites I am working on and I probably wasted multiple hours troubleshooting an issue that wasn't an issue
    If your website is going to be used by people with an adblocker, discovering that an adblocker unintentionally breaks your website is a feature of using one, not a bug.
    runako · 1789670680 · focus · HN ↗
    That is true, but does not help a person who is not building a given website.
    I have had financial websites impacted by adblockers, which is why I stopped using them. (I do not work on all of the teams building the financial websites I use.)
    applfanboysbgon · 1789671161 · focus · HN ↗
    3 clicks to disable an adblocker on a financial website seems like a trivial price to pay for mental wellbeing and tens of hours of your life not watching video ads, but you do you.
    runako · 1789775125 · focus · HN ↗
    It's not the clicks, it's the cognitive load of discovering & remembering which sites break due to an adblocker. (This set of sites changes as the sites themselves evolve.)
    The main point is you were writing advice to someone as if they were building the website, when most of us are not generally building the sites we use.
    applfanboysbgon · 1789795256 · focus · HN ↗
    > you were writing advice to someone as if they were building the website
    Yes, because I was responding to a quote of them talking about building websites.
    juliie · 1789671685 · focus · HN ↗
    Ad blockers often prevent ads from loading, so overall I'd be surprised if they really ended up slowing down browsing
  3. bcorigliano · 1789675973 · focus · HN ↗
    I was on mobile, there might be mobile ad-blockers for google chrome I dont know about, but I do not use them. On my pc of course I use adblockers, I'd have gone crazy by now if I didn't!!
    I could download some browser with adblocking built-in from the appstore but then I wouldn't have access to all my bookmarks and everything from chrome.
  4. deejatsplit · 1789677695 · focus · HN ↗
    For myself, much as I hate the advertisements, I feel like if the creator of those websites are asking for revenue and I’m blocking that, then I’m being a thief of sorts. Or I don’t visit the website.
2. walrus01 · 1789666978 · focus · HN ↗
  Looks great with ublock origin running with default settings, fyi.
tlofreso · 1789665153 · focus · HN ↗
The adsense on this site annoys me. It's run by Dustin from Smarter Every Day (at least it was in 2023 <a href="https://x.com/smartereveryday/status/1631364605426511872" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/smartereveryday/status/1631364605426511872). In the past, the site did not serve ads.
actionfromafar · 1789665392 · focus · HN ↗
The helmet portraits look goofy as hell.
1. ksd482 · 1789670048 · focus · HN ↗
  I always wondered why in movies they did this. After thinking for 2.3 seconds, I concluded it's because so that movie watchers can see their faces.
  Is there any other reason ?
  I mean, they don't have lights inside the helmet that shines on your own face, right? That would mess with your ability to see.
zekejohn · 1789665634 · focus · HN ↗
not enough ads 0/10
zekejohn · 1789665684 · focus · HN ↗
not enough ads, i could almost see the content
bjourne · 1789665881 · focus · HN ↗
Call me crazy... but there's something about their faces. Almost like all of them are brothers and sisters. Creepy in a way.
sqquima · 1789665970 · focus · HN ↗
Who is in space? Well, Tim Curry of course!
ldkge · 1789666076 · focus · HN ↗
I guess we’re doxxing people now
[deleted] · 1789666439 · focus · HN ↗
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mariusseufzer · 1789666483 · focus · HN ↗
Didn’t know humans are spending that much time in space, over a year wow! I guess they need to workout daily to keep the muscles intact?
1. static_motion · 1789687465 · focus · HN ↗
  That figure you see on the website is total time in space for that cosmonaut, not one big stretch. Though the record for longest single mission is over 400 days, and record for cumulative longest time is over 1100, both by Russian cosmonauts.
2. echoangle · 1789687961 · focus · HN ↗
  Yeah, they have exercise equipment there
  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Resistive_Exercise_Device" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Resistive_Exercise_De...
  Apparently they exercise around 2h every day
walrus01 · 1789666941 · focus · HN ↗
whois in space? what about RDAP in space?
<a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9082/" rel="nofollow">https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9082/
ligarota · 1789666983 · focus · HN ↗
Whole website for an ad btw
jakeinspace · 1789667124 · focus · HN ↗
^
stephenhuey · 1789667210 · focus · HN ↗
Safari on MacBook Pro sees the time text wrapping in such a way that when the time is pushed to the next line, it literally overlaps partly with the "Total Time in space" label. The time is halfway up the letters of the label.
And these are the biggest ads I've seen obscuring a webpage in a very long time!
ck2 · 1789668479 · focus · HN ↗
neat
adding it to my collection next to
<a href="https://NextSpaceFlight.com" rel="nofollow">https://NextSpaceFlight.com
bit grusome but would be interesting to compare known time in space against increased cancer and eyesight problems that all the astronauts seem to come back with
I believe longest time in spacewalk was 9 hours but they spent 22 hours outside the capsule during the three days on the moon
cosmic rays are a b*tch
low_tech_punk · 1789669010 · focus · HN ↗
Chinese and Russian space suits are almost identical in the photos!
1. vova_hn2 · 1789673953 · focus · HN ↗
  Wiki says [0]: "Derivative versions of Sokol continue to be worn by Chinese taikonauts on flights of the Shenzhou spacecraft today, though details of the suits' design differ slightly; they are also reported to weigh less than the Russian version of Sokol."
  [0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokol_space_suit#Use_by_countries_other_than_Russia" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokol_space_suit#Use_by_countr...
Philip-J-Fry · 1789669130 · focus · HN ↗
Destin of Smarter Every Day went down the drain in my books as soon as he published a video about Flagella, and ended it by suggesting it could be intelligent design and told viewers to read a book authored by someone who is a staunch believer of intelligent design.
Crossed the line as a science Youtuber. You don't need to be athiest to be a scientist, and he definitely isn't. But you should at least know the line.
Finding out this site is basically just a copy of something that already existed and something they knew existed just further degrades my opinion of him. Especially with it being littered with ads. The ad literally takes up half my screen.
1. spiderfarmer · 1789669731 · focus · HN ↗
  As a publisher who relied on Adsense it’s so sad to see how Google is absolutely destroying the industry with every user hostile practice imaginable. It’s absolutely disgusting and pathetic. They are hooked on a type of crack that will ruin the product in the long run.
2. LadyCailin · 1789669766 · focus · HN ↗
  [delayed]
  1. vablings · 1789670497 · focus · HN ↗
    The problem he found was not unregulated free market capitalism, rather the opposite. Suppliers and supply chains did not operate on the free market and the denigration of manufacturing in north America due to worker/talent shortage
    LadyCailin · 1789734874 · focus · HN ↗
    [delayed]
    vablings · 1790019744 · focus · HN ↗
    Two-fold problem. Manufacturing pays lower -> Lower quality workers enter the workforce -> Manufacturing is justified in paying lower -> Increase in pay is relevant -> Low-quality workers arrive -> Pay is unjustified.
    hardbass · 1790069290 · focus · HN ↗
    I should like to repeat the original question. How is that not a natural free market?
  2. illusive4080 · 1789697335 · focus · HN ↗
    This is an exceedingly simplified version of a roughly hour long video in which he points out problems and gives credit to capitalism.
3. ksd482 · 1789669878 · focus · HN ↗
  That's a bit harsh.
  I don't agree with intelligent design either simply because it is based on no data or scientific theory.
  I also expect Destin to know better than to suggest that.
  But still, I wouldn't say he went down the drain.
  His contributions far outweigh this.
4. spiderice · 1789669907 · focus · HN ↗
  Damn, I'm sorry he crossed the imaginary made up line. Let's put him under house arrest like we did to Galileo when he crossed the imaginary line.
  1. zamadatix · 1789671911 · focus · HN ↗
    People aren't allowed to stop liking someone because Galileo was prosecuted?
  2. zamadatix · 1789672106 · focus · HN ↗
    It doesn't seem they have problems with the content existing or desire his prosecution over it. They're just disappointed in things like billing that as science or copying someone else's free stuff for ad revenue and that lowered their view of them.
    Maybe that's not reasonable, maybe it is, but I dunno enough details about Galileo for this comparison as a take on that - was Galileo's prosecution that he tried to claim heliocentrism was the word of God and so some people said they stopped liking his content?
  3. Philip-J-Fry · 1789682129 · focus · HN ↗
    The line is don't push your religion in your science content. Not a hard line to not cross.
5. stronglikedan · 1789671559 · focus · HN ↗
  Yeah, too bad it cost him 0.001% of his audience. That darn line! ::shakefist:: (good thing for him it was the pedantic 0.001%)
6. yieldcrv · 1789671611 · focus · HN ↗
  "The goal of this website is to spread the amazing actions, feats, and words of the men and women currently aboard the International Space Station."
  It is so easy for me to separate the art from the artists, study me
  1. hamdingers · 1789676463 · focus · HN ↗
    The goal of the website is clearly to serve ads.
7. illusive4080 · 1789697238 · focus · HN ↗
  He’s openly been a Christian since the beginning of his channel.
  1. zamadatix · 1789738542 · focus · HN ↗
    The issue was not that he's Christian and runs a science channel.
    illusive4080 · 1789903986 · focus · HN ↗
    Stating Christian ideals like intelligent design is definitely something I’d expect from a Christian.
    zamadatix · 1789915933 · focus · HN ↗
    I'd expect that from a Christian as well, but not in the channel they bill as "I explore the world using science. That is pretty much all there is to it" in the description.
8. aaron695 · 1789710755 · focus · HN ↗
  [dead]
9. ramblurr · 1789723415 · focus · HN ↗
  What does this have to do with the linked page? Not a criticism...I just don't understand like I am missing context.
  1. zamadatix · 1789738641 · focus · HN ↗
    whoisinspace.com is "this site" in:
    > Finding out this site is basically just a copy of something that already existed and something they knew existed just further degrades my opinion of him
varispeed · 1789669260 · focus · HN ↗
Those Russians could get as far as they could from the stench of Putin and his genocidal war.
1. vova_hn2 · 1789673667 · focus · HN ↗
  Technically, you would need to go to Waitangi, NZ (the closest city to Moscow's antipodal point [0]). When you are in the orbit you will periodically be much closer to Putin than if you just stayed at the antipodal point or close to it.
  [0] <a href="https://www.geodatos.net/en/antipodes/russia/moscow" rel="nofollow">https://www.geodatos.net/en/antipodes/russia/moscow
indigodaddy · 1789669451 · focus · HN ↗
Jeezus h the ads ruin it W H Y
1. sph · 1789669598 · focus · HN ↗
  [delayed]
goda90 · 1789670230 · focus · HN ↗
Morbid curiosity: Are there any deceased individuals whose bodies were not recovered from space?
1. vova_hn2 · 1789673453 · focus · HN ↗
  I don't think so. So far all fatalities [0] happened either during launch or during launch or during landing. The only fatal incident that happened technically still in space (above the Kármán line) is Soyuz 11 [1], but it happened after the landing sequence was already started, so the capsule landed normally, just with the dead crew.
  It appears that just hanging out in the orbit is relatively safe, going up there and going down is risky.
  Same with aircraft, btw, most accidents happen during take-off, shortly after take-off or during landing. Cruising at a stable altitude is very safe.
  [0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...
  [1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11#Re-entry_and_death" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11#Re-entry_and_death
grimpy · 1789671213 · focus · HN ↗
this is spam. not in a derogatory way, but in a literal way.
spprashant · 1789676968 · focus · HN ↗
This is how I discover China has its own space station.
> When China formally requested to join the ISS program in 2007, Roscosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) supported cooperation with China, but the Wolf Amendment, enacted by the United States since 2011, prohibited Chinese participation. That same year, China launched Tiangong-1, gaining rendezvous and docking experience.
10 years later, they had a fully operation space station. Say what you will, the Chinese are efficient once they set their mind to something.
1. jedberg · 1789677298 · focus · HN ↗
  > Say what you will, the Chinese are efficient once they set their mind to something.
  Sometimes a single party communist government has its advantages. When you don't have to worry about pesky things like human rights and property rights, you can move pretty quickly!
  1. kelipso · 1789677637 · focus · HN ↗
    I don’t really understand the purpose of these cope posts anymore. It’s getting comical at this point.
  2. wyclif · 1789706127 · focus · HN ↗
    Zhang Zhiyuan has amazing eyebrow game.
  3. cadamsdotcom · 1789906787 · focus · HN ↗
    Sorry, but that's quite an antique take.
    Modern China has morphed itself into a highly capable society. They make your drones, they make your computers, they make your textiles... and mostly, they do it while providing their people better quality of life than the previous generation.
    Counter-anecdotes abound as you'd expect t from a society of millions. But there's widespread prosperity over there and decent opportunities for those who want to work hard, just like it is in the US.
cheschire · 1789683458 · focus · HN ↗
Shatner was the 597th person in space only five years ago. We are rapidly increasing the frequency new folks are making it into space. Impressive!
monoRepo11 · 1789692191 · focus · HN ↗
That’s cool, anyone know when the timer starts for mission start? Is it when they step into their shuttle?
alun · 1789737028 · focus · HN ↗
This is pretty cool. Number of humans in space feels like a good proxy for space progress.
So it would be interesting to have a metrics dashboard view of it.
For example a daily / weekly / monthly view of how many people are in space during each timeframe.
Filters by company, nationality, age, etc.
Would be an interesting way to see how space progress is being made and where it's mostly coming from.

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