From enakamura@ox.ac.uk Tue Oct 08 08:18:49 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!enakamura From: enakamura@ox.ac.uk (Élodie Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Oct08.081849.6858@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 08:18:49 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. One routing path lists: 'cascade!transat!orbit-01!stardust'. Orbit-01? Are four of the relay nodes located on satellites? The Public Harmony Acts authorized the deployment of commercial broadcast satellites in geosynchronous orbit in 1983. -- Élodie Nakamura Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From ngarcia@inria.fr Tue Oct 08 13:23:49 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!inria!ngarcia From: ngarcia@inria.fr (Nadia García) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Oct08.132349.1285@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 13:23:49 GMT References: <1996Oct08.081849.6858@ox.ac.uk> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct08.081849.6858@ox.ac.uk>, enakamura@ox.ac.uk (Élodie Nakamura) 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! -- === Nadia García === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From eperez@unam.mx Wed Oct 09 21:21:49 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!unam!eperez From: eperez@unam.mx (Emi Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Oct09.212149.7302@unam.mx> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 21:21:49 GMT References: <1996Oct08.081849.6858@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1996Oct08.081849.6858@ox.ac.uk>, enakamura@ox.ac.uk (Élodie Nakamura) writes: > The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. > Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Emi Pérez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0