From bpopov@hanse.de Mon Oct 02 00:33:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!hanse!bpopov From: bpopov@hanse.de (Bill Popov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Oct02.003340.6425@hanse.de> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 00:33:40 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24. -- Bill Popov | bpopov@hanse.de PGP Key fingerprint: A242 ECD9 5A4B E2FB "Keep the channels open." From bdubois@cmu.edu Mon Oct 02 22:06:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cmu!bdubois From: bdubois@cmu.edu (Bastien Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Oct02.220640.9113@cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 22:06:40 GMT References: <1995Oct02.003340.6425@hanse.de> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct02.003340.6425@hanse.de>, bpopov@hanse.de (Bill Popov) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). > Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. Nodes 11 through 14 lost their logbooks in that fire. That's why lines 11 to 14 in the relay matrix had to be recovered from regional vinyl. -- Bastien Dubois "A soul is not exclusive to biology." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From tkuznetsov@kiae.su Tue Oct 03 10:38:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!tkuznetsov From: tkuznetsov@kiae.su (Tomas Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Oct03.103840.6390@kiae.su> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 10:38:40 GMT References: <1995Oct02.003340.6425@hanse.de> <1995Oct02.220640.9113@cmu.edu> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct02.220640.9113@cmu.edu>, bdubois@cmu.edu (Bastien Dubois) writes: > Nodes 11 through 14 lost their logbooks in that fire. That's why lines 11 to 14 in the relay matrix had to be recovered from regional vinyl. 09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year! -- === Tomas Kuznetsov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."