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How many people are in space right now?
- runn1ng 13y agoIt was nice while it worked, now it switches from "Error 503" to "0".
- BetaCygni 13y agoVery Sci-Fi. The fontsize will have to be reduced once we reach >999 people in space.
- supermatt 13y agoDown for me :( I believe its circa 7 billion, if we only count those humans present on or around our own planet.
- clord 13y agoIn 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.
- jotaass 13y agoI think most of us are probably behind several layers of concrete, glass, wood, etc.
- techdmn 13y agoArg, opening links in new windows by default! I can do that myself if I want to, thank you very much.
- wil421 13y agoGot an error 503. A refresh loaded the page fine the second time, as did subsequent refreshing. I couldn't repeat the error.
- stevoo 13y agolooked interesting ... too bad it doesnt work. I assume capacity issue .... HN must have brought it down
- the1 13y agowww.howmanypeopleareonlinerightnow.com
- jbrooksuk 13y agoOoh, 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.
- jbrooksuk 13y agoWhy the downvote? Having this but in an app would be cool :)
- CoryG89 13y agoI didn't downvote, but I'm not sure why cloning this into a native IOS app is such a cool thing. As long as it works in the browser, it's not really that interactive or performance intensive so you wouldn't get any of the benefits of a native app. If you just need something to use to learn to make a native IOS app, this will work, but I don't see any reason to do it other than that.
- jbrooksuk 13y agoWhich is exactly what I'll be doing - learning. I've made Android applications (some are in the Play store), but iOS and Objective-C is something I want to learn now.
- richforrester 13y agoHah. 503 people in space. I must be the only one who finds that funny.
- techaddict009 13y agoAha it has gone down. This proves most of site which come on front page of HN go down with ease due to heavy traffic !
- chromaton 13y agoCan it update quickly enough to support the suborbital Virgin Galactic flights?
- d64f396930663ee 13y agoA few years ago when I was living in China I was told about this, but it never worked. Then on a hunch I fired up my proxy and discovered that the Chinese government was actively censoring it. WHY
- bbbrad 13y agoReally?! That's crazy to hear especially since we list the Chinese astronauts when they fly just like everyone else! I'd love to have a screenshot of what the site being blocked looks like.
- flexie 13y agoI believe there are 2 Americans in space right now. Speaking of space - in a restricted sense - there are around 2.3 million Americans in prison.
- Peroni 13y agoCorrect. If you click the image or just scroll down you can see the names.
- StavrosK 13y agoI have Ghostery, and I just get a big blank page with a "0" on it. I'm assuming the GP has the same.
- poopsintub 13y agoI believe the current "0" is because the json file is having problems being served.
- 6d0debc071 13y agoDon't think it's a Ghostery issue, shows up fine fromt here with that running.
- rposborne 13y agoExpedition 37 with a crew of 6 are in space right now. 2 America, 3 Russian, 1 Italian. The last three launching Yesterday "Expedition 37 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov, NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins and Russian Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy to the International Space Station." http://www.nasa.gov/content/expedition-37-soyuz-launch/#.UkQq82TzbOc http://www.nasa.gov/content/expedition-37-soyuz-launch/#.UkQ... Edit: CORRECTION this is the SECOND half of the Expedition 37 crew launching 25 September 2013, 20:58:50 UTC aboard the Soyuz TMA-10M. They are expected to return 12 March 2014. The other three were launched in may.
- knowaveragejoe 13y agoI'm seeing '0'. That can't be right.
- Kronopath 13y agoIt was showing me '0' until I refreshed a few times. Now it's '6'.
- wldlyinaccurate 13y agoDear website owners, Please take the time to set up a service like CloudFlare[0]. It's free, and will prevent your site from going down during traffic spikes. There's really no downside. Regards, Frustrated User [0]: https://www.cloudflare.com/ https://www.cloudflare.com/
- jacquesm 13y agoJust today I went to a site that uses cloudflare and they were down - because of cloudflare. Now I don't doubt that the cloudflare people will be right on top of something like that and will fix it asap but they're not a 100% solution to prevent your site from going down during traffic spikes because sites can and do go down, cloudflare or not so the coincidence with a traffic spike can still happen. The downside is clear: it's a more complex system, so the mtbf will be lower (now it is the combined downtime of 'you' versus 'you+cloudflare').
- JoshTriplett 13y agoNo need for a CDN for a site like this; the content should be completely static and regenerated whenever it changes.
- hidden-markov 13y agohttp://howmanyhedgehogsareinspacerightnow.com/ http://howmanyhedgehogsareinspacerightnow.com/
- tgb 13y agoIs there an API available for this data? Would be useful.
- richardjs 13y agoSite's broken. Clearly there is one hedgehog in space, as illustrated by the site.
- kps 13y agoYou attempted to visit a site that is in violation of $COMPANY acceptable use guidelines or may pose an Information Security threat to you and $COMPANY assets. OK, just what are the hedgehogs up to now?
- ianstallings 13y agoLies. Hedge hogs are dominating space right now. They've recently taken over half of Europa.
- drdeca 13y agoApparently the people currently in space have been there for NaN days.
- raldi 13y agoCool. Now give me a graph over time, so I can see the last date that there was nobody in space.
- zbyszek 13y agoThat would have to be a different URL, like www.howmanypeoplewereinspaceatanygiventimeinthepast.com (sorry, coldcode).
- coldcode 13y agowww.whyarepeoplemakingdomainswithsuchridiculouslengthsthesedays.edu
- minikites 13y agoAll the short ones are taken.
- coin 13y agoBlank screen on an iPad. Oh wait, I have to scroll down to the bottom to see anything.
- bbbrad 13y agoThis is my site! Nothing better than waking up to the front page of HN. And thanks for all the hilarious 503 error jokes. ;) Thanks for the submission. Couple side notes: +For those asking about using our data, go for it! We've got a json file you can tap into: http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/space.json http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/space.json +We are currently churning along on an iOS app that we are VERY excited about. Think: Notifications every time the number changes plus some cool social content integration. Anyway, I'm a daily HN reader and honestly this has made my week. Thanks for all the posi vibes!
- gprasanth 13y agoSome people are gonna be really really happy they felt lucky. Wow, now that I think about it for a moment, I realized no one ever feels lucky these days. As soon as the search bar on Google's homepage is filled, the form is auto submitted.
- raldi 13y agoI think you posted to the wrong thread. (What thread were you trying to post to?)
- CoryG89 13y agoHe's referring to the fact that the URL is in spoken question form. So people going to Google and querying "How Many People Are In Space Right Now" and using the I'm Feeling Lucky search will be brought directly to the site.
- CoryG89 13y agoI feel lucky all the time. You can change your search settings so that this doesn't happen. Kind of strange that they even show the Feeling Lucky button when this feature is enabled though. You can also use I'm Feeling Lucky via the URL by adding the query parameter btnI ie. for the query "How Many People Are In Space Right Now" google.com/search?q=How+Many+People+Are+In+Space+Right+Now&btnI
- jccalhoun 13y agoThis is just what the lamestream media wants you to think! Wake up sheeple!!!
- return0 13y agoFor the record, it's 6 (today)