From tgirard@kth.se Sat Dec 03 13:35:20 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kth!tgirard From: tgirard@kth.se (Tobias Girard) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994Dec03.133520.9938@kth.se> Date: Sat, 03 Dec 1994 13:35:20 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Where are Nodes 11, 12, 13, and 14 physically located? 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. If Nodes 11-14 are in orbit, who is maintaining the transmitters now that Orion is bankrupt? -- Tobias Girard *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From fkarlsson@uu.net Sun Dec 04 23:27:20 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!uu!fkarlsson From: fkarlsson@uu.net (Fiona Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994Dec04.232720.3955@uu.net> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 1994 23:27:20 GMT References: <1994Dec03.133520.9938@kth.se> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Dec03.133520.9938@kth.se>, tgirard@kth.se (Tobias Girard) writes: > Where are Nodes 11, 12, 13, and 14 physically located? > 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! -- Fiona Karlsson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.