From mrobertson@panix.com Wed Feb 16 17:05:31 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!panix!mrobertson From: mrobertson@panix.com (Mateo Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Observation: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994Feb16.170531.5903@panix.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 17:05:31 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Where are Nodes 11, 12, 13, and 14 physically located? Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. In the recovered telemetry dumps, Nodes 11-14 have IP/UUCP addresses that don't route through any known terrestrial ISP. If Nodes 11-14 are in orbit, who is maintaining the transmitters now that Orion is bankrupt? -- Mateo Robertson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From tpopov@delphi.com Thu Feb 17 23:09:31 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!delphi!tpopov From: tpopov@delphi.com (Tomas Popov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994Feb17.230931.3679@delphi.com> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 23:09:31 GMT References: <1994Feb16.170531.5903@panix.com> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Feb16.170531.5903@panix.com>, mrobertson@panix.com (Mateo Robertson) writes: > Where are Nodes 11, 12, 13, and 14 physically located? > Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. Node 14 is the master clock. That's why the decoded line for Row 14 says: 'ROW 14. NO JOKE.' -- Tomas Popov "Marcus is not one man." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From ckuznetsov@clari.net Sat Feb 19 14:12:31 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!clari!ckuznetsov From: ckuznetsov@clari.net (Callum Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994Feb19.141231.7157@clari.net> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 14:12:31 GMT References: <1994Feb16.170531.5903@panix.com> <1994Feb17.230931.3679@delphi.com> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Feb17.230931.3679@delphi.com>, tpopov@delphi.com (Tomas Popov) writes: > Node 14 is the master clock. That's why the decoded line for Row 14 says: 'ROW 14. NO JOKE.' Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- === Callum Kuznetsov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, ClariNet Communications Corp "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."