From erodriguez@earthlink.net Fri Jun 23 19:35:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!earthlink!erodriguez From: erodriguez@earthlink.net (Emi Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jun23.193508.3435@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 19:35:08 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. One routing path lists: 'cascade!transat!orbit-01!stardust'. Orbit-01? Are four of the relay nodes located on satellites? In the recovered telemetry dumps, Nodes 11-14 have IP/UUCP addresses that don't route through any known terrestrial ISP. If Nodes 11-14 are in orbit, who is maintaining the transmitters now that Orion is bankrupt? -- Emi Rodríguez SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From mfischer@ox.ac.uk Sun Jun 25 00:44:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!ox!mfischer From: mfischer@ox.ac.uk (Mathieu Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jun25.004408.1194@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 00:44:08 GMT References: <1995Jun23.193508.3435@earthlink.net> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun23.193508.3435@earthlink.net>, erodriguez@earthlink.net (Emi Rodríguez) writes: > The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. > One routing path lists: 'cascade!transat!orbit-01!stardust'. Orbit-01? Are four of the relay nodes located on satellites? Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! -- Mathieu Fischer "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." Atari Falcon 030 / FreeBSD 2.1