From tokonkwo@berkeley.edu Sun Aug 27 15:20:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!berkeley!tokonkwo From: tokonkwo@berkeley.edu (Takeshi Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [FLAME] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Aug27.152008.1152@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 15:20:08 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu 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? Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. When all 14 nodes are synchronized, where does the final relay terminate? -- === Takeshi Okonkwo === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley Department of EECS "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From seriksson@utexas.edu Tue Aug 29 03:37:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!utexas!seriksson From: seriksson@utexas.edu (Steve Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Aug29.033708.1952@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 03:37:08 GMT References: <1995Aug27.152008.1152@berkeley.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Aug27.152008.1152@berkeley.edu>, tokonkwo@berkeley.edu (Takeshi Okonkwo) 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! Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Steve Eriksson "Do not worship the copy." Atari Falcon 030 / Linux 1.2.13