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Re: How many people are in space right now

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Post by jrimbault »

4ad wrote: post #33
nkoren wrote: post #24

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> 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.

Most artificial satellites are rather small and crowded.

Re: How many people are in space right now

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Post by princetman »

zeristor wrote: post #48
kristianp wrote: post #17

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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.

Most number of humans in space is 13 according the graph in the link. You must be looking at second graph, most numbers of Americans in space at a time is 11.

Re: How many people are in space right now

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Post by yuvalr1 »

zeristor wrote: post #48
kristianp wrote: post #17

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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.

looks like 13, at least according to the arcaneknowledge link

Re: How many people are in space right now

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Post by yuvalr1 »

princetman wrote: post #52
zeristor wrote: post #48

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So the most number of humans in space is 11, which has happened a number of times.

Most number of humans in space is 13 according the graph in the link. You must be looking at second graph, most numbers of Americans in space at a time is 11.

Most number of Americans in space is actually 10 according to second graph :)

Re: How many people are in space right now

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Post by ekianjo »

jaredandrews wrote: post #20
ilogik wrote: post #11

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there's also a Chinese space station but it's not currently occupied. The last mission past low earth orbit was Apollo 17. As far as I know, SpaceX are the only ones planning on taking crews further out, first with a mission around the moon, and then possibly Mars

Wow, whenever I am reminded that a human hasn't been on the moon since 1972 it just blows my mind. I mean.. I guess it's probably easier and cheaper and safer to send a robot, but I would think that at least one nation would decide to flex their muscles in the "yea that's right, we can afford to do this" way. Oh how I dream of such forms of international posturing!

Space exploration had a lot to do with the development of military icbms. Now it has become almost commodity tech for developed countries so the need to show off is far less.

Re: How many people are in space right now

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Post by johannes1234321 »

staticelf wrote: post #36
maho wrote: post #30

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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).

That is only if we still die which I hope we have moved past then. Perhaps we simply make new humans when we have the need.

Would eternal life not be boring? And ever growing population also leads to issues, even when populating infinite space ...
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