From tdubois@kth.se Fri Jan 14 03:08:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!kth!tdubois From: tdubois@kth.se (Tomas Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994Jan14.030856.8262@kth.se> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 03:08:56 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. 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. -- Tomas Dubois "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Sun SparcStation 20 / FreeBSD 2.1 From akang@utexas.edu Fri Jan 14 16:25:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!utexas!akang From: akang@utexas.edu (Anton Kang) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994Jan14.162556.7942@utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 16:25:56 GMT References: <1994Jan14.030856.8262@kth.se> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Jan14.030856.8262@kth.se>, tdubois@kth.se (Tomas Dubois) writes: > Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. > 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. -- Anton Kang | akang@utexas.edu PGP Key fingerprint: BA67 1648 3FCA B173 "Keep the channels open." From rhughes@clari.net Sun Jan 16 03:51:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!clari!rhughes From: rhughes@clari.net (Rodrigo Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994Jan16.035156.7860@clari.net> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 03:51:56 GMT References: <1994Jan14.030856.8262@kth.se> <1994Jan14.162556.7942@utexas.edu> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1994Jan14.162556.7942@utexas.edu>, akang@utexas.edu (Anton Kang) writes: > When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Rodrigo Hughes Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of ClariNet Communications Corp. ------------------------------------------------------------