From tlarsson@inria.fr Sun Feb 11 02:58:30 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!tlarsson From: tlarsson@inria.fr (Tyler Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Feb11.025830.1353@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 02:58:30 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. One routing path lists: 'cascade!transat!orbit-01!stardust'. Orbit-01? Are four of the relay nodes located on satellites? The Public Harmony Acts authorized the deployment of commercial broadcast satellites in geosynchronous orbit in 1983. -- Tyler Larsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------ From lnakamura@illinois.edu Sun Feb 11 04:15:30 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!illinois!lnakamura From: lnakamura@illinois.edu (Lucia Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Feb11.041530.5873@illinois.edu> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 04:15:30 GMT References: <1996Feb11.025830.1353@inria.fr> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb11.025830.1353@inria.fr>, tlarsson@inria.fr (Tyler Larsson) 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! -- Lucia Nakamura "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Amiga 3000T / TOS 4.04 From mnovak@inria.fr Tue Feb 13 03:10:30 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!inria!mnovak From: mnovak@inria.fr (Mathieu Novak) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Feb13.031030.5783@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 03:10:30 GMT References: <1996Feb11.025830.1353@inria.fr> <1996Feb11.041530.5873@illinois.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1996Feb11.041530.5873@illinois.edu>, lnakamura@illinois.edu (Lucia Nakamura) writes: > Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. -- Mathieu Novak Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.