From epark@kiae.su Sat Sep 16 14:15:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kiae!epark From: epark@kiae.su (Elaine Park) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Sep16.141512.6079@kiae.su> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 14:15:12 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. The LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room. Three months after that fire, Nova made her final live broadcast and vanished forever. -- Elaine Park -- Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From kduarte@cmu.edu Sat Sep 16 16:30:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cmu!kduarte From: kduarte@cmu.edu (Kenji Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Sep16.163012.1012@cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 16:30:12 GMT References: <1995Sep16.141512.6079@kiae.su> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep16.141512.6079@kiae.su>, epark@kiae.su (Elaine Park) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. > The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. 09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year! -- Kenji Duarte *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From yfischer@kiae.su Sat Sep 16 20:35:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!yfischer From: yfischer@kiae.su (Yuki Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Sep16.203512.8361@kiae.su> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 20:35:12 GMT References: <1995Sep16.141512.6079@kiae.su> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Sep16.141512.6079@kiae.su>, epark@kiae.su (Elaine Park) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Yuki Fischer -- Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From landersson@unam.mx Mon Sep 18 03:08:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!unam!landersson From: landersson@unam.mx (Lars Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Sep18.030812.9667@unam.mx> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 03:08:12 GMT References: <1995Sep16.141512.6079@kiae.su> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep16.141512.6079@kiae.su>, epark@kiae.su (Elaine Park) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. > The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Lars Andersson -- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."