Whoisinspace.com/

(whoisinspace.com)

90 points | by Egg-Man 2 hours ago

24 comments

  • low_tech_punk 1 minute ago
    Chinese and Russian space suits are almost identical in the photos!
  • bcorigliano 1 hour ago
    A good concept, I like it! But pleas make ads less invasive. I understand we all need to pay our bills, but that shouldn't interfere with the user experience. Besides that, I didn't know there were so many guys in space as we speak!
    • dosshell 36 minutes ago
      Someone on HN that does not use ad block? This is still so confusing for me. Why not spend 40 seconds and never see any ads more?
      • r0m4n0 16 minutes ago
        Some reasons I don't use them anymore (in no specific order)

        1. I have had them subtly mess with websites I am working on and I probably wasted multiple hours troubleshooting an issue that wasn't an issue

        2. I have had them break a web form when I was trying to purchase something

        3. I have purchased some things I like from ads and wouldn't have discovered otherwise

        4. I don't frequent websites that overuse them or I can't work around them

        5. I'm on a work laptop sometimes and I'm not allowed to use them for corp security reasons

        6. I'm not sure I trust the ad blockers themselves, their developers, or their own app security

        7. It's another process that can slow down viewing a webpage

      • hectdev 23 minutes ago
        Or AdGuard on a Raspberry Pi paired with Tailscale and never see ads on any machines you own again even on cellular.
    • walrus01 35 minutes ago
      Looks great with ublock origin running with default settings, fyi.
  • hamdingers 1 hour ago
    • bbbrad 43 minutes ago
      I appreciate you recognizing us as the OG. We've tracked every launch since 2009!

      Who is in space, they seem like nice people, I love the Smarter Every Day crew. (They actually tried to buy my domain years ago.) Pretty lame that they're running those insane Starlink ads but it is what it is.

    • asdfman123 32 minutes ago
      I feel like this post is just an AI slop copy of that site designed to grab free ad revenue.

      I've flagged it and recommend others do the same.

  • darknavi 2 hours ago
    > WHO IS IN SPACE is a project created by Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day and Geoff Barrett.

    Neat. Destin has a great talk that he gave to/at NASA about Artemis a few years ago.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU

  • stephenhuey 31 minutes ago
    Safari on MacBook Pro sees the time text wrapping in such a way that when the time is pushed to the next line, it literally overlaps partly with the "Total Time in space" label. The time is halfway up the letters of the label.

    And these are the biggest ads I've seen obscuring a webpage in a very long time!

  • mariusseufzer 44 minutes ago
    Didn’t know humans are spending that much time in space, over a year wow! I guess they need to workout daily to keep the muscles intact?
  • zatkin 1 hour ago
    This website is unusable without closing out advertisements upon advertisements...
    • wowthatsucks 1 hour ago
      Interesting. I don't see any ads, even with my ad blocker turned off.
    • baublet 1 hour ago
      Yeah warning to mobile users, too. Basically unusable website because of the ads.

      I miss the ad free web.

    • eek2121 1 hour ago
      Maybe you should create whoisinspacewithnoads.com? :D
      • ASalazarMX 57 minutes ago
        How about a new TLD, .noads?
  • zekejohn 57 minutes ago
    not enough ads, i could almost see the content
  • walrus01 36 minutes ago
    whois in space? what about RDAP in space?

    https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9082/

  • sqquima 52 minutes ago
    Who is in space? Well, Tim Curry of course!
  • bobson_dugnutt5 1 hour ago
    Lai Ka-Ying. Nominative determinism!
    • dima55 1 hour ago
      "Laika" is the generic dog name in Russian. Means "barker".
  • ligarota 35 minutes ago
    Whole website for an ad btw
  • ck2 10 minutes ago
    neat

    adding it to my collection next to

    https://NextSpaceFlight.com

    bit grusome but would be interesting to compare known time in space against increased cancer and eyesight problems that all the astronauts seem to come back with

    I believe longest time in spacewalk was 9 hours but they spent 22 hours outside the capsule during the three days on the moon

    cosmic rays are a b*tch

  • feraloink 2 hours ago
    This is better than the Magic 8-ball. I DO like the visuals after clicking the Magic 8-ball though!
  • jakeinspace 33 minutes ago
    ^
  • tlofreso 1 hour ago
    The adsense on this site annoys me. It's run by Dustin from Smarter Every Day (at least it was in 2023 https://x.com/smartereveryday/status/1631364605426511872). In the past, the site did not serve ads.
  • ldkge 50 minutes ago
    I guess we’re doxxing people now
  • actionfromafar 1 hour ago
    The helmet portraits look goofy as hell.
  • reynard_le_faux 1 hour ago
    We’re all in space bro
    • probablyStimmed 45 minutes ago
      Whoisdangerouslyfarfromthesurfaceofearth.com doesn’t have the same ring.
  • ChrisArchitect 1 hour ago
    Anyone else read this as WHOIS in space? Was ready to find out which TLDs had Galactic Coordinates for contact details
  • bjourne 54 minutes ago
    Call me crazy... but there's something about their faces. Almost like all of them are brothers and sisters. Creepy in a way.
  • wildzzz 1 hour ago
    Those SpaceX suit photos look dumb. I very much prefer the traditional look of the Russian and Chinese crew photos.