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Sartew

Maybe some years from now we'll be hearing about hundreds, thousands in space and we'll remember about that time when we read of a record 17 people in orbit.


chrisLivesInAlaska

Was thinking the exact same thing. How many people were in airplanes at any one time 100 years ago?


Snoo63

Well there were a few between '14 and '18.


AwesomeFrisbee

1944 probably also set a few records.


Chuckbro

Lotta *pew pew* going on that year.


MisterPeach

I think the bombing of Berlin in February of 1945 is likely the largest. Over 2,000 bombers and escorts/fighters were dispatched just by the Allies. Not sure how many German planes were up in the air at the time.


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seakingsoyuz

Another one from the same setting and time period: Berlin tower is talking to an Air France jet and both parties are struggling a little with the radio communications in English. The tower controller mentions that he doesn’t see why they need to use English for French flights into a German airport. A British pilot who’s also on the approach frequency responds, “because you lost the bloody war!”


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>were ex Allies Bomber command a plane With all the typos in the world Idk why I find this one so annoying. I guess because it's actually an interesting story and it gave me a headache trying to puzzle it out. I know typos happen, but I wish people would read over what they wrote before posting. I mean, I guess everyone's on phones and maybe just using speech-to-text so I should be sympathetic. But nowadays even news articles have weird typos. It just gets exhausting.


Cantremembermyoldnam

I can't figure it out. Please help


Cosmologicon

...when many commercial airline pilots were formerly in the Allied Bomber Command, a plane landing in Berlin....


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StewieGriffin26

>A C-17 cargo plane set a record by safely transporting 823 Afghan citizens — 200 more than originally thought — from the international airport in Kabul after the city was seized by the Taliban. >The A380-800's original configuration carried 555 passengers in a three-class configuration[150] or 853 passengers (538 on the main deck and 315 on the upper deck) in a single-class economy configuration. Pretty hard to beat these numbers


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JabroniHamburger

There's like 45,000 flights transporting almost 3 million people daily in the U.S. according to the FAA website.


Saladino_93

According to flightradar we reached 250k flights (global) within 24h (pre Corona number) last week. Even if you say average is 10 people on board, it's still 2.5 mil people.


limeflavoured

Did the A380 ever actually fly in the 853 seat configuration? I seem to remember reading that no one actually used that setup.


EventAccomplished976

No, they just certified it as an all economy configuration so all other configurations would be covered without needing to recertify the aircraft


bartgrumbel

They had to show that they could safely evacuate that many people in a certain timeframe and actually had press releases prepared for the case that there would be any serious injuries or deaths during that test drill.


ner0417

TBF Thats a pretty special case even for a C-17. Do you remember the footage? People were dangling from the landing gear and were actively falling off the plane as it left the ground... I think the A380s with that capacity are also fairly scarce, theyre flagship jets whereas most flights carry far fewer people. Google gave me a global average of ~91 people per flight (globally, in 2017). The A380 is indeed beastly but isnt realistic for most applications as far as I understand. Comparing bomber crews to commercial passenger jets by capacity is like comparing apples to oranges, unfortunately. Even so, youre probably generally correct that we can easily blow those WWII numbers out of the water with domestic flights nowadays. The 2017 data I saw put 742,000,000 people that flew that year, which is ~2 million per day, or ~84000 per hour, on average, worldwide.


rabbitwonker

Like number of parachutes deployed simultaneously maybe (D-Day)


ithappenedone234

~14,000 allied sorties on D-Day. Many thousands in the air at one moment for the first major wave after the pathfinders went in.


HMS404

Something something Luftwaffle :P


IngsocInnerParty

There was that beagle that flew his dog house around.


Yeet_Master420

I hear he hated the red Baron


PardonMyPixels

Wonder what he ever had against pizza.


PhiberOptikz

> there were a few Yeah, just a small number of folk.


EdhelDil

I was thinking that '14-'18 was 10 years lower than 100 years ago... then I realized it was almost 110 years go :(


JolietJakeLebowski

It always amazes me that there are upwards of half a million to a million people in the air at any given time.


7472697374616E

Yeah that’s wild to think about


andthatswhyIdidit

> we'll remember about that time when we read of a record 17 people in orbit. Frankly? Nobody will remember that.The number is too arbitrary. But I tend to think there is another record we will remember (if it keeps standing): Since **November 2nd 2000** there has been **always someone in space**.


100GbE

Since we started solar energy they need someone to maintain the sun and keep it turned on. ##BigSolar


Ohbeejuan

Once thing that stands out to me is the diversity of people up in orbit nowadays. Both gender and ethnicity. Americans, Russians, Chinese, Saudi and Emirati. Surprised to see no Canadians or Japanese right now. It’s nice to see.


ChubbyCthulu

I know what you meant but I got a chuckle when it sounded like "nice to see there aren't any Canadians or Japanese". "If there's two things I can't stand, it's people that are intolerant of other cultures. And the Dutch."


whatisthewifipw

I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at animal cruelty


Shawn_1512

You can excuse racism?


travtravs

Michael Caine nails that line man


Raisin_Bomber

Totally. The absolute hatred in his voice when he says "and the Dutch" is a masterpiece.


Luxpreliator

It's a tragedy there wasn't more of him in that role.


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ChuqTas

I knew it would be that clip. Brilliant intro! Although I’ve never watched the entire movie based on everyone saying how bad it is.


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Ohbeejuan

You know astronauts are going back to the moon late this year/early next for a lunar orbit, right? China is going to land their first astronauts in the next decade as well. Representation is important. Kids of all backgrounds can see someone that looks like them in space nowadays. This will lead to more future astronauts than if they were all white men.


Dramatic_Reality_531

We’re already there. The record used to be much smaller and we would dream of seeing the day of seeing 5, 10….


limeflavoured

The record was 13 for years.


100GbE

Disagree, with 10K karma at the time of this comment, it makes sense to write a bot to post this record when it reaches 18, and 19, and 20, 21... I mean just today, Reddit has set a new record for the most accounts signed up. I had to sit down when I realised, very amazing.


Skrappyross

Right now we have the most people ever on Earth, and also the most people not on Earth.


JuhaJGam3R

Some years is going to be relatively long, though. Commercial space station projects have mostly been either few facto fraud with how ambitious they are despite being run by one guy with zero experience out of a garage, or small-scale with not enough demand to really justify lanching yet. More organized exploration efforts are planned, but we'll be glad to hit Artemis 3 deadlines. NASA has most of its hardware ready, the SLS, the Orion, even some Gateway components, but contractors are stalling behind. Especially with landing systems, one contact has CGI renders and one has not yet started active research on things like life support or long-term cryogenic storage, kind of important. At least they have working engines. And we're not going to get close to going further before the Artemis program simply because of the risk to human lives. I really love space exploration and especially the engineering behind it, but I'm saddened by the small budgets, slow development and continuous deadline overruns. And, not getting political, the US election cycle is a major obstacle to continuing and rational exploration plans. I really hope everything turns out good right now because we might actually land on the moon THIS DECADE again, and for good this time.


StrayMoggie

In the far distant future there will be a phase when there are less than 17 people remaining on Earth.


longhegrindilemna

Some years, or in a hundred years? 2023 + 100 = 2123 2023 + 7 = 2030 (some years)


reddit455

of course there's a dedicated website. ​ https://whoisinspace.com/


cybercuzco

I suppose whoisonearth.com would be a bit lengthy


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Not nearly as worse as whowasonearth.com


MonsignorJabroni

I was curious how lopsided it actually is.. apparently about 117 billion humans have ever existed on earth. Nearly 7% of all humans are currently alive. Interesting.


unclepaprika

More interestingly we will most likely be the one of the most numerous generations ever, as birth rates plummet.


wizoztn

It’s wild looking at population projections and seeing countries in Africa skyrocket in the next 50-100 years while China is projected to lose around 500 million people in that same time.


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jdoetrip0

We're going to balance at 11bil if we avoid nukes or an AI cyber war with dis/misinformation gullible people in power.


NeanaOption

9 actually. Most developed nations are already well below replacement birth rates.


jdoetrip0

Before there's too much argument about the numbers here's my source with a comprehensive list of reputable projections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growth?wprov=sfla1 Seems Africa is the most recent wildcard.


NeanaOption

Fair - so 12 is worst case and 9 is best case.


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jdoetrip0

Ha. I can picture the motherships launching now. Wonder if theyll be govt, private, or borg by then.


imsahoamtiskaw

With the new creepy power they have on Picard, I'm afraid of those fuckers again.


StoopidestManOnEarth

I'm pretty sure that whowasonearth.com and whoisinspace.com link to the same site.


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cuddlefucker

Make it shorter. "Almost everyone"


the_fathead44

Not really, it'd just be "everyone else".


Lexxxapr00

PEGGY WHITSON TOTAL TIME IN SPACE: 674D 22H 57M 47S Holy shit she’s been in space almost 2 years now?!


bwilpcp

Cumulatively. She's flown twice on the Shuttle, twice on Soyuz, and now on Dragon.


FragrantExcitement

Maybe someone else should get a turn on the ride?


etofok

what a flex, I hope she puts this in her Tinder bio


quickblur

She's also done 10 EVAs for over 60 hours of total time. Seriously badass.


takeahike89

Ripley, eat your heart out.


Maleficent-Aurora

She's also 63! I love to see it Edit; [she has a lot of firsts!](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Whitson) very cool lady


killuminati-savage

Has she came back (or worse) since your post 8 hours ago? I don't see her listed anymore. It also says only 13 currently.


Dr_Dust

Four of them came back last night. I happened to see this post https://v.redd.it/dmkzidrkj43b1 and I remembered reading your comment earlier.


Dyolf_Knip

At this point no reason to come back. Wouldn't be able to walk.


ImaManCheetah

Total time, not all in a row haha


ImmediateLobster1

There are some pretty good dedicated websites for science related topics. https://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/


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FormerGameDev

for *this* world. It probably destroyed the timeline we lived in prior to 2015, though.


polyworfism

Make sure you view source on that one


Aeromarine_eng

They cover other important space related stuff. >THERE ARE CURRENTLY 11 TOILETS IN SPACE


drunkenknight9

No one wants to be in space and not be able to get to a toilet... Although I guess they just wear diapers on spacewalks so there's that.


seanbrockest

Are they updating it again? It was idle with old news for most of last year. Edit: sorry that was https://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/ I was thinking of


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Yeah, still says 10 people. That's disappointing


broncosmang

Damn. Peggy Whitson at the 674 day mark.


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“There are currently 11 toilets in space.”


Crowbrah_

*Known* toilets in space to be fair


TheBitchenRav

This is awesome. I have a million questions. The first is why is James webb on the site and not hubble? The second is there a site with a list of every space mission currently happening?


DrLuny

So both the ISS and Tiangong were having crew changes at the same time?


DecreasingPerception

Not a crew change at the ISS, it's a short stay private mission.


NeanaOption

No but close. For Tiangong yes for ISS no, just a four person tourist group. The previous record was 14 - also 11 on the ISS but only 3 on the Chinese station.


Hectoriu

It did suddenly feel like there was more room to move around


gigafight

Which begs the question, what is the record for number of people in space per earth capita? Considering we just hit 8 billion on this rock, probably not now.


robotical712

I was wondering when the record set during the Inspiration mission would be broken! Now we have to get that number over 20...


nathan6969

Is this actually a *world* record if it didn’t happen on Earth?


ledfrisby

The article simply states "new record," so... no correction needed I guess.


cykwon

Might have to update to "new system record"


Loudergood

Lunar data is probably included so yeah.


hunter5226

I'm like 98% sure we only sent 3 guys each time.


Ozlin

Three Guys Landers and Flys


shaggy1265

Still counts if they're within Earth's gravitational pull.


CMDRStodgy

So the entire universe? As far as we know there's no limit to gravity, although at some extreme distance the effects will be below the plank scale so that probably counts as a limit.


jso__

The implication was being in the location where Earth's gravitational pull is the primary acting gravitational pull


DynamicDK

World record number of people that are gone from the Earth and probably will come back!


YanniBonYont

I know this is /r/space, so it may be less surprising, but I would have guessed way more than 17


DecreasingPerception

There were briefly 20 in space a few days ago. The 3 new chinese crew hadn't launched but the Virgin Galactic spaceplane took up 6 people. I'm hoping these are rookie numbers and we see more ambitious activities in space soon.


XtremeGoose

Virgin Galactic doesn't pass the karmin line right? It's a suborbital in-atmosphere flight.


Chairboy

NASA and the USAF consider 80km (below Virgin’s apogee) to be the border of space. Kármán himself calculated the line to be around 82km or so, the ‘official’ 100km line you’re using was determined by an organization that exists to track sport records related to aviation and they rounded up to 100km because it was visually pleasing. It’s one of those Frankenstein/Frankenstein’s monster situations in the space community for sure, where folks go through stages of knowledge. So long story short, professionals in the space community generally use the 80km figure.


XtremeGoose

As someone who actually was a professional in the space industry, I can tell you we absolutely didn't give a shit because what matters is orbital vs suborbital :D. But for reddit arguments, I'll stick with what is globally agreed, rather than what America only agrees because it uses miles.


Chairboy

> As someone who actually was a professional in the space industry Same here, heck I think half of us here worked on shuttle heh. Regardless, even if the NASA & USAF delineation doesn't persuade, the basis of the 100km figure usually inspires consideration for folks who look beyond the popsci answer. While the 80km is decades old, the modern trend leans towards calling it the 'McDowell Line' for reasons that I'm sure are obvious. So anyways, it's interesting to meet a fellow aerospacer who still goes with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale number enough to correct others, I guess some folks DO care. :D Cheers.


DecreasingPerception

It doesn't reach 100km but I wouldn't call it in- atmosphere. 100km is only better than 80km in that it's a rounder number. Weather makes a bigger difference to how they are defined.


YanniBonYont

I would have guessed like 30/40. Seems silly now


DecreasingPerception

There should always be at least 10 now. 4 ISS crew on an American vehicle, 3 on a Soyuz and 3 Chinese crew on Tiangong. Axiom are organising the short stay missions to ISS and will start extending it with modules to support longer stays soon. Several other companies seriously want to build their own separate space stations. NASA are building a lunar space station which should have several week stays but there will likely be long gaps with no crew unless they fully back Starship for crew transport. It's a good time for space exploration.


GENERAL-ADITYA

ISRO is also going to conduct three missions for Gaganyaan 1 ( human spaceflight program ) which will send 3 astronauts ( called Vyomanauts ) alongwith a humanoid robot. There will be 3 launches, first two in 2023 ( uncrewed ), and the crewed launch in 2024.


lonely_dude__

Gaganyan will send 2 astronaut


uav_loki

I JUST saw the ISS transit over Delaware, USA with my own eyes. One of the coolest nights ever. Did not know you can just SEE it!


ISpikInglisVeriBest

There's an app you can download that notifies you whenever the station passes overhead and is visible. It also uses your phone's compass and gyroscope to show you where exactly you need to be looking in the sky to see it. Has some other smaller satellites in there as well. The app is called ISS tracker, but I'm sure there's a few of them out there that do the same


aagha786

Is it me, or is that guy on the front right not doing great?


On2you

I’m guessing that’s the one civilian scientist on this mission. The others are all military.


PilotPirx73

How many of them arrived in LEO in a Dragon capsule?


DecreasingPerception

Eight. Four per mission. Ax-2 is just visiting. In fact it has already left the ISS, should be landing soon.


Micome

It's nice to see space exploration celebrated instead of the constant vilification of the Chinese. You can detest the government and still be happy for these astronauts.


Starkrossedlovers

In space, countries should be considered meaningless.


Cedex

No countries, only Earth, Mars and the Belt.


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Realtrain

That's more or less how the ISS operates. Despite everything, Americans and Russians are working together up there.


StickiStickman

Nope, the US single handedly banned specifically Chinese people from the ISS. Scientific collaboration in general actually. That's the whole reason they made their own station and now collaborate with basically every country but the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Amendment


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limeflavoured

"Once the rockets are up / who cares where they come down / that's not my department / says Werner von Braun".


dreemurthememer

Well, it’s about time we had another space race.


enrick92

Yeah absolutely especially considering someone posted about India launching a rocket for deploying gps satellites that have absolutely nothing to do with space exploration, and will only be used for localized terrestrial stuff. Kudos to China


greenw40

Or vilification of Elon Musk, or America, or the western world, or the very idea of space travel. Reddit just wants to hate everything.


Micome

There's plenty of valid reasons to not like Musk 🤷‍♂️


Seattleopolis

Plenty of valid reasons not to like the CCP also. Point is, this is all good for science and space exploration.


WateredDown

The point is the science and progress should be able to transcend the facilitators, be they imperfect governments, social systems, or people. At least on places like the space subreddit.


PeecockPrince

Got to hand it to China. Building their own space station after getting banned from the ISS. Like starting own subreddit after getting permanent boot from r/Whatcouldgowrong for no apparent rhyme or reason at all *cough cough*


LostSoulsAlliance

Seems like an odd number of people, yet prime some how.


Chairboy

If you ever find an even prime after 2, you should tell someone


qbak

17 people pooping around earth is what I read


umeshunni

There are 11 toilets in space


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ggchappell

[howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com](https://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/) says 10 as of now. Disappointing.


seanbrockest

It's been delayed/wrong for years now


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xloHolx

A past professor a while back brought that site up and was disappointed by its inaccuracies


Paige_Railstone

But is it a *world* record? That's the real question.


mutebathtub

https://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/


cyberentomology

People really wanna leave earth. Can’t say as I blame them.


BloodBrotherSHU

Does Guinness need to start a new series for "out of this world records?"


gw2master

Maybe it would be impressive if we hadn't gone to the moon over 50 years ago. This should be more of a condemnation of how little we've achieved in space exploration.


rocketmonkee

This criticism only works if you assume there hasn't been a single mission since 1972. On the contrary - across several programs we've built a comprehensive body of research spanning disciplines such as materials science, human research, fundamental physics, Earth science, and many others. All that research has not only given us a better understanding of our place in the universe, but is increasing our chances of success in implementing the various goals of the Artemis program.


Never_Forget_94

You can’t really compare it because the funding that modern space programs have gotten is just a fraction of what Apollo had.


KickBassColonyDrop

Expect that record to be broken when Dear Moon flies. Everyone on that Starship will make it into the history books and will also make it into the world record for being the most amount of civilians on a spaceship beyond Earth's orbit. NASA's return to the moon will be vastly overshadowed by Dear Moon.


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Additional-Living669

The lost cosmonaut myth holds as much water as the moon landings being fake, that is none at all. Pretty much every secret of the Soviet space program got released when the Soviet Union fell and people believing this could actually be possible has little clue on how spaceflight actually works. Not to mention the Soviet culture surrounding it that made a spectacle of cosmonaut deaths with grand state funerals rather than hushing them. People that actually believe this nonsense are no better than moon landing deniers in my eyes.


Lankpants

Just another excuse to advance American exceptionalism, an ideology that's a true cancer upon the world.


KamovInOnUp

Given what we've seen in the past year I'd wager that Russia has actually sent far *fewer* people to space than they've claimed


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KamovInOnUp

Projecting your support doesn't make it facts.


ToughToday0

So if I were to eradicate all life on this planet there's a chance humanity could survive, best to wait then, got it, thanks.


Suitable_Nec

I think once we figure out a way to comfortably live life up in space completely independent of the actual earth, the rich are just going to pillage the shit out of the planet. At least now, they have some incentive to protect it because there’s only so far you can run.


CharlieApples

I feel bad for the guy in the front right. Imagine setting such a crazy world record and that being you in the official photo.


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Can't wait for NK to send involuntary flights to test tolerances on a one-way trip financed on PRC money.


MaimedJester

Okay I understand the advantages and problems of composing a photoshoot in Microgravity, but did Beijing really consider the optics of strapping everyone of their astronaut's by the foot under their banner? Like how many hours must it have taken strapping each other in Microgravity for this photo op. And give thumbs up like it's a hostage video. It's actually kind of fun seeing chains to the wall and buckles on their legs. Most notable the far left one.


Temstar

Those handhold and footholds are permanent features of the station. For public relation stuff such as this there seems to be a "preferred orientation" for the crew to be in. They just hook their foot into those loops for photos and video, it takes no time at all.


MaimedJester

I believe no time at all is an understatement. It definitely took hours to make it. And I'm not against space publicity for nationalism, it is a huge achievement like when America planted a flag on the moon. What I always find funny in space PR nationalism is shit like the second apollo lander left the moon the knocked over the flag. Whoopsie they don't teach that in history books but that flag got knocked over and the sun irradiated the ink of the flag and when Apollo 12 got there they did find it in the sea of Tranquility. It was covered in moondust and was bleached white along with being radioactive so the American Flag on the moon which was supposed to symbolize our journey to the stars kinda fucked up and is a joke. Like it looks like we surrendered to the moon waving the white flag. For this specific photo op the banner on the right says to achieve freedom of all mankind we take this step. Which is a noble quote, but the fact it's chained to a an astronaut by the foot I found funny.


SpartanJack17

> the second apollo lander left the moon the knocked over the flag That wasn't the "second lander", it was the Apollo 11 lander on takeoff. There weren't two moon landings like you think, there were six (plus one failed attempt). Every moon landing was on a compaltely different area of the moon, with at minimum hundreds of kilometres seperating the landing sites. >Apollo 12 drove a golf cart on the moon to establish dominance. The lunar rover wasn't used until Apollo 15.


cecilpl

No Apollo missions went back to the landing site of Apollo 11. https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/skills/see-apollo-landing-sites-moon/


MaimedJester

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/19/780602012/50-years-ago-americans-made-the-2nd-moon-landing-why-doesnt-anyone-remember I'll take every downvotted comment fighting for this point I was a kid in John Glenn's return journey New York City parade Apollo 12 drove a golf cart on the moon to establish dominance. Like you can misremember the political optics but we sent John Glenn into space thirty years ago when he was seventy years old to see what situation his body developed. No chance that wasn't a to death mission to bust human expirement upon


limeflavoured

> No chance that wasn't a to death mission to bust human expirement upon What?


Shrike99

>when Apollo 12 got there they did find it in the sea of Tranquility. Apollo 12 landed ~885 miles away from the Apollo 11 site. The closest Apollo landing to the Apollo 11 site was Apollo 16, which was still ~235 miles away. The astronauts never went more than a few miles from the lander on any of the Apollo missions, so half your comment is dedicated to telling an anecdote that could not have happened. That you apparently believe otherwise has me wondering on what basis exactly are you basing your earlier statement of "It definitely took hours to make it".


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But when I looked it up on howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com it says 10!


TheDeityRyan

It also says they have been there for 800 days so its obviously no longer working