From lhernandez@mit.edu Fri Aug 16 10:15:50 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mit!lhernandez From: lhernandez@mit.edu (Liam Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [FLAME] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Aug16.101550.5852@mit.edu> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:15:50 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu 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 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. If Nodes 11-14 are in orbit, who is maintaining the transmitters now that Orion is bankrupt? -- Liam Hernández SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 28,800 bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From dmartinez@unam.mx Sat Aug 17 09:19:50 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!unam!dmartinez From: dmartinez@unam.mx (Dave Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Aug17.091950.5061@unam.mx> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 09:19:50 GMT References: <1996Aug16.101550.5852@mit.edu> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Aug16.101550.5852@mit.edu>, lhernandez@mit.edu (Liam Hernández) 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. Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! -- === Dave Martínez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."