# NASA: 6.5 billion served on the Web **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [February 21, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/nasa-6-5-billion-served-on-the-web/102269 "2004-02-21T16:13:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/nasa-6-5-billion-served-on-the-web/102269/1 "2004-02-21T16:13:07Z")
> 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](http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5162838.html?tag=nefd_top) Wow - wonder how much bandwidth was used?! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/nasa-6-5-billion-served-on-the-web/102269/2 "2004-02-21T21:18:54Z")
They must’ve mirrors all over the world…! Wouldn’t want to pay for that! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/nasa-6-5-billion-served-on-the-web/102269/3 "2004-02-22T04:36:57Z")
Definitely 🙂 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. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 7:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/nasa-6-5-billion-served-on-the-web/102269/4 "2004-02-24T07:11:15Z")
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 ?