From jmoreau@inria.fr Sat Jul 08 10:22:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!inria!jmoreau From: jmoreau@inria.fr (Julien Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jul08.102231.9697@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1995 10:22:31 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. 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? -- Julien Moreau Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------ From jweber@utexas.edu Sat Jul 08 19:08:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!utexas!jweber From: jweber@utexas.edu (Julien Weber) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jul08.190831.4048@utexas.edu> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1995 19:08:31 GMT References: <1995Jul08.102231.9697@inria.fr> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul08.102231.9697@inria.fr>, jmoreau@inria.fr (Julien Moreau) writes: > 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. Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! -- Julien Weber *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0 From bkim@cam.ac.uk Sun Jul 09 11:13:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cam!bkim From: bkim@cam.ac.uk (Bastien Kim) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jul09.111331.4973@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 1995 11:13:31 GMT References: <1995Jul08.102231.9697@inria.fr> <1995Jul08.190831.4048@utexas.edu> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul08.190831.4048@utexas.edu>, jweber@utexas.edu (Julien Weber) writes: > Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! Node 14 is the master clock. That's why the decoded line for Row 14 says: 'ROW 14. NO JOKE.' Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Bastien Kim -- University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."