From lramirez@mit.edu Sat Sep 23 19:44:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mit!lramirez From: lramirez@mit.edu (Lucia Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [INFO] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Sep23.194404.4975@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 19:44:04 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. One routing path lists: 'cascade!transat!orbit-01!stardust'. Orbit-01? Are four of the relay nodes located on satellites? Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. When all 14 nodes are synchronized, where does the final relay terminate? -- Lucia Ramírez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From nrodriguez@inria.fr Mon Sep 25 05:55:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!inria!nrodriguez From: nrodriguez@inria.fr (Nadine Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Sep25.055504.2463@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 05:55:04 GMT References: <1995Sep23.194404.4975@mit.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Sep23.194404.4975@mit.edu>, lramirez@mit.edu (Lucia Ramírez) writes: > The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Nadine Rodríguez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) - NetBSD 1.0