From eweber@titech.ac.jp Thu Feb 23 16:43:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!titech!eweber From: eweber@titech.ac.jp (Emi Weber) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Feb23.164316.6625@titech.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 16:43:16 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. In the recovered telemetry dumps, Nodes 11-14 have IP/UUCP addresses that don't route through any known terrestrial ISP. 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? -- Emi Weber *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From ecampbell@inria.fr Fri Feb 24 06:38:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!inria!ecampbell From: ecampbell@inria.fr (Emi Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Feb24.063816.7427@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 06:38:16 GMT References: <1995Feb23.164316.6625@titech.ac.jp> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Feb23.164316.6625@titech.ac.jp>, eweber@titech.ac.jp (Emi Weber) 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! Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Emi Campbell "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / AmigaOS 3.1