From dgarcia@uni-hamburg.de Mon Jan 22 12:51:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uni-hamburg!dgarcia From: dgarcia@uni-hamburg.de (Dave García) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Jan22.125121.3746@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 12:51:21 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. One routing path lists: 'cascade!transat!orbit-01!stardust'. Orbit-01? Are four of the relay nodes located on satellites? Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. The Public Harmony Acts authorized the deployment of commercial broadcast satellites in geosynchronous orbit in 1983. -- Dave García Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From bgonzalez@earthlink.net Tue Jan 23 05:58:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!earthlink!bgonzalez From: bgonzalez@earthlink.net (Bruno González) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Jan23.055821.7498@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 05:58:21 GMT References: <1996Jan22.125121.3746@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Jan22.125121.3746@uni-hamburg.de>, dgarcia@uni-hamburg.de (Dave García) writes: > The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. > One routing path lists: 'cascade!transat!orbit-01!stardust'. Orbit-01? Are four of the relay nodes located on satellites? When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. -- Bruno González US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 28,800 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From nsanchez@rwth-aachen.de Thu Jan 25 02:45:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!rwth-aachen!nsanchez From: nsanchez@rwth-aachen.de (Nadia Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Jan25.024521.7286@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 02:45:21 GMT References: <1996Jan22.125121.3746@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan22.125121.3746@uni-hamburg.de>, dgarcia@uni-hamburg.de (Dave García) writes: > The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. > One routing path lists: 'cascade!transat!orbit-01!stardust'. Orbit-01? Are four of the relay nodes located on satellites? Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! -- Nadia Sánchez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.