From lsantos@demon.co.uk Thu Nov 09 02:19:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!demon!lsantos From: lsantos@demon.co.uk (Lars Santos) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Nov09.021959.3100@demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 02:19:59 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. 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? -- === Lars Santos === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Demon Internet Services UK "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From nschneider@stanford.edu Fri Nov 10 23:22:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!stanford!nschneider From: nschneider@stanford.edu (Natalia Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Nov10.232259.3455@stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 23:22:59 GMT References: <1995Nov09.021959.3100@demon.co.uk> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov09.021959.3100@demon.co.uk>, lsantos@demon.co.uk (Lars Santos) writes: > Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! -- Natalia Schneider *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0