From gjohansson@delphi.com Fri Jan 26 01:14:16 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!delphi!gjohansson From: gjohansson@delphi.com (Graham Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [FLAME] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Jan26.011416.2430@delphi.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 01:14:16 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. If Nodes 11-14 are in orbit, who is maintaining the transmitters now that Orion is bankrupt? -- === Graham Johansson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Delphi Internet Services "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From snovak@cern.ch Fri Jan 26 22:28:16 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cern!snovak From: snovak@cern.ch (Sun-mi Novak) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Jan26.222816.8914@cern.ch> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 22:28:16 GMT References: <1996Jan26.011416.2430@delphi.com> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jan26.011416.2430@delphi.com>, gjohansson@delphi.com (Graham Johansson) writes: > Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. > Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. Nova isn't in a vault. Her code was transmitted to the orbital relays before the building burned. -- Sun-mi Novak *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From msilva@cmu.edu Sun Jan 28 09:34:16 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cmu!msilva From: msilva@cmu.edu (Morag Silva) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Jan28.093416.2702@cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 09:34:16 GMT References: <1996Jan26.011416.2430@delphi.com> <1996Jan26.222816.8914@cern.ch> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan26.222816.8914@cern.ch>, snovak@cern.ch (Sun-mi Novak) writes: > Nova isn't in a vault. Her code was transmitted to the orbital relays before the building burned. Node 14 is the master clock. That's why the decoded line for Row 14 says: 'ROW 14. NO JOKE.' -- Morag Silva SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "They will send a copy in my place." From mpetrov@mindspring.com Mon Jan 29 22:57:16 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!mindspring!mpetrov From: mpetrov@mindspring.com (Marta Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Jan29.225716.1046@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 22:57:16 GMT References: <1996Jan26.011416.2430@delphi.com> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Jan26.011416.2430@delphi.com>, gjohansson@delphi.com (Graham Johansson) writes: > Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. > Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! -- === Marta Petrov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, MindSpring Enterprises "We don't sign stars. We build them."