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How Many People Are In Space Right Now? (howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com)
26 points by scapegraced on Aug 23, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 12 comments



Eventually, every grammatical English sentence will have its domain taken, and be tended to by a nanostartup dedicated to answering that one question.


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OK, who's gonna register iseverygrammaticalenglishsentencetendedbyananostartupdedicated toansweringthatonequestionyet.com?


That's not possible, because you have a space in there.


Cool. Also, gets my vote for most blatantly unnecessary use of JavaScript (from 6 places???) ever.


I was about to say the same thing. Not nearly as bad as unnecessary Flash but in this case, for a website so simple, it's just as wasteful.

That being said, cool site! And cool domain name!


All of them.


Does this include Bowie?


It should have 6 astronauts and I should be able to mouseover any of them to get a bio, current time in space and total time spent in space.

C- for effort.


Where does he really get the data from ?


Space.


No RSS feed. :(




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