How many people are in space right now? • Hacker News Board

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by 4lun » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 1:03 PM UTC

JoshTriplett wrote: post #19

wldlyinaccurate wrote: post #17

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No need for a CDN for a site like this; the content should be completely static and regenerated whenever it changes.

The server can still tank from too many requests, static or not.

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by clord » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 1:04 PM UTC

supermatt wrote: post #4

Down for me :( I believe its circa 7 billion, if we only count those humans present on or around our own planet.

In one sense, we're "in space" more so than people on the space station — there are no walls between us and the stars, just a gas that tapers off to zero with us clinging to our rock by the merest force. It gives me vertigo when I try hard to comprehend that.

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by momchenr » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 1:17 PM UTC

richforrester wrote: post #10

Hah. 503 people in space. I must be the only one who finds that funny.

Was hoping someone hadn't beaten me to this. :) Well done.

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by jbrooksuk » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 1:18 PM UTC

jbrooksuk wrote: post #9

Ooh, I've been wanting to make an iOS app for something for a while now. This should be a nice easy thing to sink my teeth into.

Why the downvote? Having this but in an app would be cool :)

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by drdeca » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 1:30 PM UTC

Apparently the people currently in space have been there for NaN days.

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by richardjs » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 1:30 PM UTC

hidden-markov wrote: post #18

http://howmanyhedgehogsareinspacerightnow.com/

Site's broken. Clearly there is one hedgehog in space, as illustrated by the site.

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by raldi » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 1:34 PM UTC

Cool. Now give me a graph over time, so I can see the last date that there was nobody in space.

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by hrrsn » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 1:41 PM UTC

4lun wrote: post #21

JoshTriplett wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No need for a CDN for a site like this; the content should be completely static and regenerated whenever it changes.

The server can still tank from too many requests, static or not.

As it has.

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by Kronopath » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 2:14 PM UTC

knowaveragejoe wrote: post #16

I'm seeing '0'. That can't be right.

It was showing me '0' until I refreshed a few times. Now it's '6'.

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by coldcode » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 2:16 PM UTC

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