From jreyes@tum.de Mon May 02 07:57:43 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!tum!jreyes From: jreyes@tum.de (Jen Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994May02.075743.6123@tum.de> Date: Mon, 02 May 1994 07:57:43 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. If Nodes 11-14 are in orbit, who is maintaining the transmitters now that Orion is bankrupt? -- Jen Reyes SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From gsato@pacbell.net Tue May 03 11:44:43 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pacbell!gsato From: gsato@pacbell.net (Graham Sato) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994May03.114443.7719@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 03 May 1994 11:44:43 GMT References: <1994May02.075743.6123@tum.de> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1994May02.075743.6123@tum.de>, jreyes@tum.de (Jen Reyes) writes: > The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. > Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. Nova isn't in a vault. Her code was transmitted to the orbital relays before the building burned. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Graham Sato *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0 From ewatanabe@hanse.de Tue May 03 23:31:43 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!hanse!ewatanabe From: ewatanabe@hanse.de (Emi Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994May03.233143.4236@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 03 May 1994 23:31:43 GMT References: <1994May02.075743.6123@tum.de> <1994May03.114443.7719@pacbell.net> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994May03.114443.7719@pacbell.net>, gsato@pacbell.net (Graham Sato) writes: > Nova isn't in a vault. Her code was transmitted to the orbital relays before the building burned. Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! -- Emi Watanabe | ewatanabe@hanse.de PGP Key fingerprint: 2005 87F2 2BBD AC86 "Keep the channels open." From agonzalez@hanse.de Wed May 04 11:13:43 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!hanse!agonzalez From: agonzalez@hanse.de (Anja González) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994May04.111343.5767@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 04 May 1994 11:13:43 GMT References: <1994May02.075743.6123@tum.de> <1994May03.114443.7719@pacbell.net> <1994May03.233143.4236@hanse.de> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994May03.233143.4236@hanse.de>, ewatanabe@hanse.de (Emi Watanabe) writes: > Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! Node 14 is the master clock. That's why the decoded line for Row 14 says: 'ROW 14. NO JOKE.' -- Anja González *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0