From otakahashi@mindspring.com Sat Apr 23 14:21:21 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mindspring!otakahashi From: otakahashi@mindspring.com (Olga Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994Apr23.142121.8045@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 14:21:21 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. If Nodes 11-14 are in orbit, who is maintaining the transmitters now that Orion is bankrupt? -- Olga Takahashi *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From mhughes@kiae.su Sun Apr 24 03:32:21 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kiae!mhughes From: mhughes@kiae.su (Mei Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994Apr24.033221.3863@kiae.su> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 03:32:21 GMT References: <1994Apr23.142121.8045@mindspring.com> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Apr23.142121.8045@mindspring.com>, otakahashi@mindspring.com (Olga Takahashi) writes: > Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. > Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! -- Mei Hughes -- Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "Hold for relay."