From tsokolov@hanse.de Sat Mar 12 05:15:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!hanse!tsokolov From: tsokolov@hanse.de (Takeshi Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994Mar12.051542.3551@hanse.de> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 05:15:42 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Where are Nodes 11, 12, 13, and 14 physically located? In the recovered telemetry dumps, Nodes 11-14 have IP/UUCP addresses that don't route through any known terrestrial ISP. Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. If Nodes 11-14 are in orbit, who is maintaining the transmitters now that Orion is bankrupt? -- === Takeshi Sokolov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "Do not worship the copy." From bmoreau@uu.net Sun Mar 13 13:06:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uu!bmoreau From: bmoreau@uu.net (Bill Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994Mar13.130642.6736@uu.net> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 13:06:42 GMT References: <1994Mar12.051542.3551@hanse.de> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1994Mar12.051542.3551@hanse.de>, tsokolov@hanse.de (Takeshi Sokolov) writes: > Where are Nodes 11, 12, 13, and 14 physically located? Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Bill Moreau *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From lwatanabe@pacbell.net Mon Mar 14 12:40:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!pacbell!lwatanabe From: lwatanabe@pacbell.net (Lisa Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994Mar14.124042.6187@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 12:40:42 GMT References: <1994Mar12.051542.3551@hanse.de> <1994Mar13.130642.6736@uu.net> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Mar13.130642.6736@uu.net>, bmoreau@uu.net (Bill Moreau) writes: > Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Lisa Watanabe -- Pacific Bell Internet Services "When every node is whole, the channel opens."