From ekang@inria.fr Mon Feb 27 09:07:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!inria!ekang From: ekang@inria.fr (Élodie Kang) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Data: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Feb27.090715.1367@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 09:07:15 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. 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. -- === Élodie Kang === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From rrodriguez@rwth-aachen.de Wed Mar 01 13:04:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!rwth-aachen!rrodriguez From: rrodriguez@rwth-aachen.de (Raj Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Mar01.130415.8831@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 13:04:15 GMT References: <1995Feb27.090715.1367@inria.fr> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb27.090715.1367@inria.fr>, ekang@inria.fr (Élodie Kang) writes: > Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. > 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! -- Raj Rodríguez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0