From emoreno@inria.fr Thu Aug 17 04:05:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!inria!emoreno From: emoreno@inria.fr (Emi Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Question: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Aug17.040512.4120@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 04:05:12 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. The Public Harmony Acts authorized the deployment of commercial broadcast satellites in geosynchronous orbit in 1983. -- Emi Moreno | emoreno@inria.fr PGP Key fingerprint: 9912 D802 F48C A13F "Keep the channels open." From mmuller@uu.net Fri Aug 18 04:25:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uu!mmuller From: mmuller@uu.net (Marisol Müller) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Aug18.042512.2903@uu.net> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 04:25:12 GMT References: <1995Aug17.040512.4120@inria.fr> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Aug17.040512.4120@inria.fr>, emoreno@inria.fr (Emi Moreno) 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! Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Marisol Müller "Marcus is not one man." Decstation 5000/200 / SunOS 4.1.4 From blaurent@uni-hamburg.de Sat Aug 19 02:36:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uni-hamburg!blaurent From: blaurent@uni-hamburg.de (Bill Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Aug19.023612.7704@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 02:36:12 GMT References: <1995Aug17.040512.4120@inria.fr> <1995Aug18.042512.2903@uu.net> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug18.042512.2903@uu.net>, mmuller@uu.net (Marisol Müller) writes: > 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! Nova isn't in a vault. Her code was transmitted to the orbital relays before the building burned. -- Bill Laurent *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From imartinez@uu.net Sun Aug 20 18:00:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uu!imartinez From: imartinez@uu.net (Ines Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Aug20.180012.5725@uu.net> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 18:00:12 GMT References: <1995Aug17.040512.4120@inria.fr> <1995Aug18.042512.2903@uu.net> <1995Aug19.023612.7704@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug19.023612.7704@uni-hamburg.de>, blaurent@uni-hamburg.de (Bill Laurent) writes: > Nova isn't in a vault. Her code was transmitted to the orbital relays before the building burned. When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. -- Ines Martínez Hayes Optima 288 @ 19,200 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."