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Philip-J-Fry•44 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.

stronglikedan•4 minutes ago

Yeah, too bad it cost him 0.001% of his audience. That darn line! ::shakefist:: (good thing for him it was the pedantic 0.001%)

yieldcrv•3 minutes ago

"The goal of this website is to spread the amazing actions, feats, and words of the men and women currently aboard the International Space Station."

It is so easy for me to separate the art from the artists, study me

ksd482•32 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.

spiderice•31 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.

LadyCailin•34 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.

vablings•21 minutes ago

The problem he found was not unregulated free market capitalism, rather the opposite. Suppliers and supply chains did not operate on the free market and the denigration of manufacturing in north America due to worker/talent shortage

spiderfarmer•34 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.

bcorigliano•about 2 hours 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•about 1 hour 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•about 1 hour 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

juliie•2 minutes ago

Ad blockers often prevent ads from loading, so overall I'd be surprised if they really ended up slowing down browsing

spiderice•39 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•38 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•about 1 hour ago

Or AdGuard on a Raspberry Pi paired with Tailscale and never see ads on any machines you own again even on cellular.

walrus01•about 1 hour ago

Looks great with ublock origin running with default settings, fyi.

hamdingers•about 3 hours ago

Reminds me of the original: https://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/

bbbrad•about 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•about 1 hour 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.

grimpy•9 minutes ago

this is spam. not in a derogatory way, but in a literal way.

indigodaddy•39 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•36 minutes ago

Not using an adblocker in 2026 AD is just asking for it

darknavi•about 3 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

goda90•26 minutes ago

Morbid curiosity: Are there any deceased individuals whose bodies were not recovered from space?

stephenhuey•about 1 hour 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•about 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?

zatkin•about 2 hours ago

This website is unusable without closing out advertisements upon advertisements...

wowthatsucks•about 2 hours ago

Interesting. I don't see any ads, even with my ad blocker turned off.

baublet•about 2 hours ago

Yeah warning to mobile users, too. Basically unusable website because of the ads.

I miss the ad free web.

eek2121•about 2 hours ago

Maybe you should create whoisinspacewithnoads.com? :D

ASalazarMX•about 2 hours ago

How about a new TLD, .noads?

bobson_dugnutt5•about 3 hours ago

Lai Ka-Ying. Nominative determinism!

dima55•about 2 hours ago

"Laika" is the generic dog name in Russian. Means "barker".

zekejohn•about 2 hours ago

not enough ads, i could almost see the content

low_tech_punk•about 1 hour ago

Chinese and Russian space suits are almost identical in the photos!

sqquima•about 2 hours ago

Who is in space? Well, Tim Curry of course!

walrus01•about 1 hour ago

whois in space? what about RDAP in space?

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

feraloink•about 3 hours ago

This is better than the Magic 8-ball. I DO like the visuals after clicking the Magic 8-ball though!

ligarota•about 1 hour ago

Whole website for an ad btw

tlofreso•about 2 hours 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•about 1 hour ago

actionfromafar•about 2 hours ago

The helmet portraits look goofy as hell.

ksd482•29 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.

ck2•about 1 hour 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

reynard_le_faux•about 2 hours ago

We’re all in space bro

probablyStimmed•about 1 hour ago

Whoisdangerouslyfarfromthesurfaceofearth.com doesn’t have the same ring.

ChrisArchitect•about 2 hours ago

Anyone else read this as WHOIS in space? Was ready to find out which TLDs had Galactic Coordinates for contact details

bjourne•about 2 hours 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•about 2 hours ago

Those SpaceX suit photos look dumb. I very much prefer the traditional look of the Russian and Chinese crew photos.

xattt•about 2 hours ago

They remind me of a “face-in-the-hole” board (1) photo.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_stand-in

varispeed•42 minutes ago

Those Russians could get as far as they could from the stench of Putin and his genocidal war.

ldkge•about 2 hours ago

I guess we’re doxxing people now