From sbrennan@rwth-aachen.de Wed Oct 02 07:10:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!rwth-aachen!sbrennan From: sbrennan@rwth-aachen.de (Seo-yeon Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Oct02.071014.5819@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 07:10:14 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. -- Seo-yeon Brennan "Row 14. No joke." Decstation 5000/200 / System 7.5.1 From etakahashi@tum.de Thu Oct 03 16:50:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!etakahashi From: etakahashi@tum.de (Élodie Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Oct03.165014.2813@tum.de> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:50:14 GMT References: <1996Oct02.071014.5819@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct02.071014.5819@rwth-aachen.de>, sbrennan@rwth-aachen.de (Seo-yeon Brennan) 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. Nova isn't in a vault. Her code was transmitted to the orbital relays before the building burned. -- Élodie Takahashi -- Technische Universität München "Do not worship the copy." From dsokolov@earthlink.net Fri Oct 04 07:08:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!earthlink!dsokolov From: dsokolov@earthlink.net (Dave Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Oct04.070814.2686@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 07:08:14 GMT References: <1996Oct02.071014.5819@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1996Oct02.071014.5819@rwth-aachen.de>, sbrennan@rwth-aachen.de (Seo-yeon Brennan) 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! My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Dave Sokolov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0