From mduarte@cern.ch Thu Sep 07 01:44:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cern!mduarte From: mduarte@cern.ch (Marta Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Sep07.014411.8852@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 01:44:11 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). The room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks. The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. Who disabled the halon system at 2:00 in the morning? -- Marta Duarte Zyxel U-1496E @ ISDN 64k bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From otanaka@mit.edu Fri Sep 08 10:24:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!mit!otanaka From: otanaka@mit.edu (Olga Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Sep08.102411.8250@mit.edu> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1995 10:24:11 GMT References: <1995Sep07.014411.8852@cern.ch> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep07.014411.8852@cern.ch>, mduarte@cern.ch (Marta Duarte) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). > The room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Olga Tanaka Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From jfischer@delphi.com Fri Sep 08 16:36:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!delphi!jfischer From: jfischer@delphi.com (Jens Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Sep08.163611.1272@delphi.com> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1995 16:36:11 GMT References: <1995Sep07.014411.8852@cern.ch> <1995Sep08.102411.8250@mit.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Sep08.102411.8250@mit.edu>, otanaka@mit.edu (Olga Tanaka) writes: > The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. 09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year! -- Jens Fischer Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.