From kduarte@hanse.de Sat Jan 13 16:38:34 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!hanse!kduarte From: kduarte@hanse.de (Kenji Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Jan13.163834.4921@hanse.de> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 16:38:34 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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. Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. If Nodes 11-14 are in orbit, who is maintaining the transmitters now that Orion is bankrupt? -- === Kenji Duarte === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From aito@mit.edu Sun Jan 14 05:26:34 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mit!aito From: aito@mit.edu (Astrid Ito) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Jan14.052634.3758@mit.edu> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 05:26:34 GMT References: <1996Jan13.163834.4921@hanse.de> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jan13.163834.4921@hanse.de>, kduarte@hanse.de (Kenji Duarte) 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. When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. -- === Astrid Ito === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Hold for relay." From rnovak@panix.com Mon Jan 15 09:11:34 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!panix!rnovak From: rnovak@panix.com (Renata Novak) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Jan15.091134.2868@panix.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 09:11:34 GMT References: <1996Jan13.163834.4921@hanse.de> <1996Jan14.052634.3758@mit.edu> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan14.052634.3758@mit.edu>, aito@mit.edu (Astrid Ito) writes: > When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. Nova isn't in a vault. Her code was transmitted to the orbital relays before the building burned. -- Renata Novak Hayes Optima 288 @ ISDN 64k bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From divanov@purdue.edu Tue Jan 16 23:28:34 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!purdue!divanov From: divanov@purdue.edu (Dave Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Jan16.232834.7490@purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 23:28:34 GMT References: <1996Jan13.163834.4921@hanse.de> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Jan13.163834.4921@hanse.de>, kduarte@hanse.de (Kenji Duarte) 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. When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. -- Dave Ivanov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Purdue University Engineering Computer Network. ------------------------------------------------------------ From nvasiliev@demon.co.uk Thu Jan 18 12:01:34 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!demon!nvasiliev From: nvasiliev@demon.co.uk (Natalia Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Jan18.120134.7100@demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:01:34 GMT References: <1996Jan13.163834.4921@hanse.de> <1996Jan16.232834.7490@purdue.edu> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jan16.232834.7490@purdue.edu>, divanov@purdue.edu (Dave Ivanov) writes: > When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Natalia Vasiliev -- Demon Internet Services UK "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice."