Whoisinspace.com/

(whoisinspace.com)

98 points | by Egg-Man 2 hours ago

27 comments

  • Philip-J-Fry 18 minutes ago
    Destin of Smarter Every Day went down the drain in my books as soon as he published a video about Flagella, and ended it by suggesting it could be intelligent design and told viewers to read a book authored by someone who is a staunch believer of intelligent design.

    Crossed the line as a science Youtuber. You don't need to be athiest to be a scientist, and he definitely isn't. But you should at least know the line.

    Finding out this site is basically just a copy of something that already existed and something they knew existed just further degrades my opinion of him. Especially with it being littered with ads. The ad literally takes up half my screen.

    • spiderice 5 minutes ago
      Damn, I'm sorry he crossed the imaginary made up line. Let's put him under house arrest like we did to Galileo when he crossed the imaginary line.
    • ksd482 6 minutes ago
      That's a bit harsh.

      I don't agree with intelligent design either simply because it is based on no data or scientific theory.

      I also expect Destin to know better than to suggest that.

      But still, I wouldn't say he went down the drain.

      His contributions far outweigh this.

    • spiderfarmer 8 minutes ago
      As a publisher who relied on Adsense it’s so sad to see how Google is absolutely destroying the industry with every user hostile practice imaginable. It’s absolutely disgusting and pathetic. They are hooked on a type of crack that will ruin the product in the long run.
    • LadyCailin 7 minutes ago
      He went down my drain a long time ago for the same reason. I also find it funny how his good ole boy down south project to make a grill scrubber has basically just re-discovered what all the predominately atheist city slickers have been trying to tell the predominantly Republican voting south, which is that unregulated free market capitalism is the problem.
  • 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 55 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 35 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

        • spiderice 12 minutes ago
          > 7. It's another process that can slow down viewing a webpage

          I guess.. just like how wearing a seatbelt could end up killing you. Doesn't mean the exact opposite isn't a million times more likely.

        • applfanboysbgon 12 minutes ago
          > 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

          If your website is going to be used by people with an adblocker, discovering that an adblocker unintentionally breaks your website is a feature of using one, not a bug.

      • hectdev 41 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 54 minutes ago
      Looks great with ublock origin running with default settings, fyi.
  • hamdingers 2 hours ago
    • bbbrad 1 hour 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 51 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.

  • indigodaddy 13 minutes ago
    Jeezus h the ads ruin it W H Y

    Is it really worth the potential of like $1 month if you're rockin the shit out of it, when you can host for free or basically free anywhere these days

    Oh I checked whois on one of the IPs and they are using square space. I guess that's why. Gotta recoup something from inexplicably deciding to use squarespace

    • sph 10 minutes ago
      Not using an adblocker in 2026 AD is just asking for it
  • 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 50 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 1 hour 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?
  • low_tech_punk 20 minutes ago
    Chinese and Russian space suits are almost identical in the photos!
  • 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 1 hour ago
        How about a new TLD, .noads?
  • zekejohn 1 hour ago
    not enough ads, i could almost see the content
  • bobson_dugnutt5 2 hours ago
    Lai Ka-Ying. Nominative determinism!
    • dima55 1 hour ago
      "Laika" is the generic dog name in Russian. Means "barker".
  • sqquima 1 hour ago
    Who is in space? Well, Tim Curry of course!
  • walrus01 54 minutes ago
    whois in space? what about RDAP in space?

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

  • ligarota 54 minutes ago
    Whole website for an ad btw
  • feraloink 2 hours ago
    This is better than the Magic 8-ball. I DO like the visuals after clicking the Magic 8-ball though!
  • 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.
  • jakeinspace 51 minutes ago
    ^
  • ck2 29 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

  • actionfromafar 1 hour ago
    The helmet portraits look goofy as hell.
    • ksd482 3 minutes ago
      I always wondered why in movies they did this. After thinking for 2.3 seconds, I concluded it's because so that movie watchers can see their faces.

      Is there any other reason ?

      I mean, they don't have lights inside the helmet that shines on your own face, right? That would mess with your ability to see.

  • reynard_le_faux 1 hour ago
    We’re all in space bro
    • probablyStimmed 1 hour 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 1 hour 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.
  • varispeed 16 minutes ago
    Those Russians could get as far as they could from the stench of Putin and his genocidal war.
  • ldkge 1 hour ago
    I guess we’re doxxing people now