that we know of :)
How many people are in space right now
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Re: How many people are in space right now
#42There's also a 23.0 MB app (iOS only) that you can download and install — just to display a single number. (It actually does a little more than that, but still, a perfect example of an app that should be just a mobile web page.)
Was just thinking the same thing. Its unnecessary
Re: How many people are in space right now
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
By then it may be quite easy to track accurately!
You have to take births and deaths into account, which is not straightforward. Assuming fast interstellar travel, "loss of simultaneity" causes the number of people in space to depend on your reference frame (your speed and location).
When you get injected with your FaceazonHappinessChip (TM) at birth, it's not hard to track.
Re: How many people are in space right now
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
...until people start dying and babies start getting born in space.
Well, there may be some speed-of-light issues in getting the latest data. But this problem seems pretty solvable if you link to the right government databases, etc.
900B records leaked and broadcasted from the UniverseFax credit agency; now forming a shell around Earth that's 6 light hours wide, and expands at the rate of 600 000 km/s...
Re: How many people are in space right now
#45All people are in space right now.
Re: How many people are in space right now
#46*that we know of
Re: How many people are in space right now
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
> There may be privately or secretly "launched" people It's essentially impossible to covertly put or keep anything in space. Getting into space requires expending a rather obvious amount of energy, which there are fleets of satellites from many different nations continually watching out for. Staying in space requires being in full view of, well, nearly 8 billion people. It's not something that anyone is presently do…
You can't hide space launches but you can sure hide a person in of those classified satellites.
If you're happy to let them starve, then sure, although that would be a rather pointless thing to do. But if satellites were orbiting and then returning to Earth after a few days or weeks, we'd know. And if they were being resupplied by other satellites, we'd know. It's really not that mysterious up there.
Re: How many people are in space right now
#48Is there a long-term graph of this? I believe the number has been nonzero since 2000, and wanted to see how it's changed over time.
Here's one up to 2014: http://www.arcaneknowledge.org/science/spaceflt.htm Number of living humans who have walked on another world: https://xkcd.com/893/
So the most number of humans in space is 11, which has happened a number of times.
Re: How many people are in space right now
#49ah, very useful app for astronauts
Re: How many people are in space right now
#50Is there a long-term graph of this? I believe the number has been nonzero since 2000, and wanted to see how it's changed over time.
Here's one up to 2014: http://www.arcaneknowledge.org/science/spaceflt.htm Number of living humans who have walked on another world: https://xkcd.com/893/
The xkcd graph is kind of sad.