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aidos wrote: post #2

That's such a lovely website. What a great project! Totally ignorant question – is that an exhaustive list? Wow, such mind bogglingly incredible machines.

so it seems that hn blocks on ip after a posting the hive mind disagrees with - maybe stuff like "down with chairman pao" or "fuck the femtards" - but anyway, we just find new ip addresses! we are legion, we are the commentators!

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Post by matt_morgan » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 1:27 PM UTC

I'd buy a kid-sized t-shirt, if you had them!

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Post by mjklin » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 1:50 PM UTC

bjd2385 wrote: post #3

aidos wrote: post #2

That's such a lovely website. What a great project! Totally ignorant question – is that an exhaustive list? Wow, such mind bogglingly incredible machines.

Their site says it's a catalog of "the active human-made machines that freckle our solar system and dot our galaxy." Obviously it's not really the "galaxy," per se, considering we only have one probe that's actually left the solar system so far (Voyager 1). There are a number of inactive probes.

Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 might have left the solar system but we don't know where they are...

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Post by 51Cards » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 2:01 PM UTC

Did I miss the Hubble? Would it not qualify for some reason?

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Post by TorKlingberg » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 2:14 PM UTC

51Cards wrote: post #16

Did I miss the Hubble? Would it not qualify for some reason?

I think it only includes probes beyond Earth orbit. It makes an exception for Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

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Post by 51Cards » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 2:18 PM UTC

TorKlingberg wrote: post #17

51Cards wrote: post #16

Did I miss the Hubble? Would it not qualify for some reason?

I think it only includes probes beyond Earth orbit. It makes an exception for Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

Ah ok, that makes sense. Thanks.

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Post by flurdy » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 2:23 PM UTC

51Cards wrote: post #16

Did I miss the Hubble? Would it not qualify for some reason?

Hubble orbits the Earth. Spaceprob.es seems to be for all current man made probes/landers/etc sent beyond that.

Was going to put last weeks link that neatly showed all the hundreds, if not thousands, of man made objects orbiting Earth, but I can't find it just now (will edit if I do)

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Post by flurdy » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 2:27 PM UTC

Philae is alive again it seems https://twitter.com/Philae2014

Maybe add a box of its own? http://spaceprob.es/rosetta/ does mention it but I think it did reactive slightly recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philae_%28spacecraft%29#Reawak...