From rstewart@pacbell.net Mon Apr 17 14:12:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pacbell!rstewart From: rstewart@pacbell.net (Rodrigo Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Apr17.141220.4350@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 14:12:20 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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? Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. The Public Harmony Acts authorized the deployment of commercial broadcast satellites in geosynchronous orbit in 1983. -- Rodrigo Stewart *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0 From skim@clari.net Tue Apr 18 15:50:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!clari!skim From: skim@clari.net (Sven Kim) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Apr18.155020.3323@clari.net> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 15:50:20 GMT References: <1995Apr17.141220.4350@pacbell.net> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr17.141220.4350@pacbell.net>, rstewart@pacbell.net (Rodrigo Stewart) 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! -- Sven Kim "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From sokonkwo@purdue.edu Thu Apr 20 13:02:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!purdue!sokonkwo From: sokonkwo@purdue.edu (Sven Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Apr20.130220.5615@purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 13:02:20 GMT References: <1995Apr17.141220.4350@pacbell.net> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr17.141220.4350@pacbell.net>, rstewart@pacbell.net (Rodrigo Stewart) 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? Nova isn't in a vault. Her code was transmitted to the orbital relays before the building burned. -- Sven Okonkwo US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From tsokolov@berkeley.edu Fri Apr 21 01:34:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!berkeley!tsokolov From: tsokolov@berkeley.edu (Thiago Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Apr21.013420.7630@berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 01:34:20 GMT References: <1995Apr17.141220.4350@pacbell.net> <1995Apr20.130220.5615@purdue.edu> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr20.130220.5615@purdue.edu>, sokonkwo@purdue.edu (Sven Okonkwo) writes: > Nova isn't in a vault. Her code was transmitted to the orbital relays before the building burned. Node 14 is the master clock. That's why the decoded line for Row 14 says: 'ROW 14. NO JOKE.' -- Thiago Sokolov Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."