From ifournier@utexas.edu Wed Sep 04 04:18:48 1996
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From: ifournier@utexas.edu (Ines Fournier)
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Subject: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again
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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.
One routing path lists: 'cascade!transat!orbit-01!stardust'. Orbit-01? Are four of the relay nodes located on satellites?

If Nodes 11-14 are in orbit, who is maintaining the transmitters now that Orion is bankrupt?

-- 
Ines Fournier | ifournier@utexas.edu
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"Keep the channels open."

From sramirez@rwth-aachen.de Thu Sep 05 03:25:48 1996
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From: sramirez@rwth-aachen.de (Seo-yeon Ramírez)
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Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again
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In article <1996Sep04.041848.4639@utexas.edu>, ifournier@utexas.edu (Ines Fournier) writes:
> 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.

Nova isn't in a vault. Her code was transmitted to the orbital relays before the building burned.

-- 
Seo-yeon Ramírez | sramirez@rwth-aachen.de
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"Keep the channels open."

From amacdonald@cmu.edu Fri Sep 06 00:09:48 1996
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From: amacdonald@cmu.edu (Amy MacDonald)
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Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again
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Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 00:09:48 GMT
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In article <1996Sep04.041848.4639@utexas.edu>, ifournier@utexas.edu (Ines Fournier) writes:
> 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.

Node 14 is the master clock. That's why the decoded line for Row 14 says: 'ROW 14. NO JOKE.'

-- 
=== Amy MacDonald ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS
"Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."

From mmuller@uni-hamburg.de Fri Sep 06 02:25:48 1996
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From: mmuller@uni-hamburg.de (Marisol Müller)
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Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again
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Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 02:25:48 GMT
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In article <1996Sep04.041848.4639@utexas.edu>, ifournier@utexas.edu (Ines Fournier) 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!

-- 
Marisol Müller
Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik.
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