From msato@netcom.com Wed Apr 10 16:02:35 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!netcom!msato From: msato@netcom.com (Mei Sato) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Question: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Apr10.160235.8905@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 16:02:35 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. One routing path lists: 'cascade!transat!orbit-01!stardust'. Orbit-01? Are four of the relay nodes located on satellites? If Nodes 11-14 are in orbit, who is maintaining the transmitters now that Orion is bankrupt? -- Mei Sato Zyxel U-1496E @ ISDN 64k bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From okowalski@berkeley.edu Thu Apr 11 23:09:35 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!berkeley!okowalski From: okowalski@berkeley.edu (Olga Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Apr11.230935.7694@berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 23:09:35 GMT References: <1996Apr10.160235.8905@netcom.com> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Apr10.160235.8905@netcom.com>, msato@netcom.com (Mei Sato) 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! -- Olga Kowalski Hayes Optima 288 @ 28,800 bps "They will send a copy in my place."