From jnakamura@ox.ac.uk Wed Jan 25 18:32:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!ox!jnakamura From: jnakamura@ox.ac.uk (Joachim Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Question: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jan25.183250.4172@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 18:32:50 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. 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? -- Joachim Nakamura "Row 14. No joke." NeXTstation Turbo Color / TOS 4.04 From ssantos@unam.mx Thu Jan 26 00:41:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!unam!ssantos From: ssantos@unam.mx (Steve Santos) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jan26.004150.7748@unam.mx> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 00:41:50 GMT References: <1995Jan25.183250.4172@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan25.183250.4172@ox.ac.uk>, jnakamura@ox.ac.uk (Joachim Nakamura) writes: > The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! -- Steve Santos "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Atari Falcon 030 / NEXTSTEP 3.3