NASA: 6.5 billion served on the Web

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Thursday that during the past month and a half, the total number of visits to its home page, which hosted images and video feeds from the two recent rover landings on Mars, was greater than the total population of humans on Earth. NASA said its home page received 6.53 billion hits–the number of times someone pulls up a Web site–surpassing Earth’s population of 6.3 billion people. The visitor numbers cover the period from Jan. 4, when the first rover, Spirit, landed, through Thursday.

http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5162838.html?tag=nefd_top

Wow - wonder how much bandwidth was used?! :slight_smile:

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They must’ve mirrors all over the world…!
Wouldn’t want to pay for that!

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Definitely :slight_smile: If everybody was as bad as me and downloaded some of their high-res pictures, at least half of my taxes will be going to pay for their bandwidth haha.

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See I didn’t go to the link because I had read it somewhere else and they didn’t show that figure.

Does it make sense ?
If there was 6.5 billion hits
And 1.9 million users

That means they each visited the site 526 times each ?

That can’t be right……

1,000,000 1 million
10,000,000 10 million
100,000,000 100 million
1,000,000,000 1 billion

1,000,000,000 / 1,900,000 = 526

There is no way they each person went there 500+ times each……
I must have stuffed something up ?