From lweber@rwth-aachen.de Tue Jul 11 02:28:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!rwth-aachen!lweber From: lweber@rwth-aachen.de (Lars Weber) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Question: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jul11.022856.4321@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 02:28:56 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de 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 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? -- Lars Weber Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of RWTH Aachen Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------ From jperez@hanse.de Tue Jul 11 13:45:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!hanse!jperez From: jperez@hanse.de (Julien Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jul11.134556.3838@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 13:45:56 GMT References: <1995Jul11.022856.4321@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul11.022856.4321@rwth-aachen.de>, lweber@rwth-aachen.de (Lars Weber) 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? When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. -- Julien Pérez | jperez@hanse.de PGP Key fingerprint: 1BB3 CE7C 3D2C 068D "Keep the channels open." From dkowalski@rwth-aachen.de Wed Jul 12 10:56:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!rwth-aachen!dkowalski From: dkowalski@rwth-aachen.de (Dong-hyun Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jul12.105656.5572@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 10:56:56 GMT References: <1995Jul11.022856.4321@rwth-aachen.de> <1995Jul11.134556.3838@hanse.de> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul11.134556.3838@hanse.de>, jperez@hanse.de (Julien Pérez) writes: > When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. Node 14 is the master clock. That's why the decoded line for Row 14 says: 'ROW 14. NO JOKE.' -- Dong-hyun Kowalski "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Decstation 5000/200 / System 7.5.1 From evasiliev@purdue.edu Wed Jul 12 21:53:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!purdue!evasiliev From: evasiliev@purdue.edu (Elaine Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jul12.215356.5126@purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 21:53:56 GMT References: <1995Jul11.022856.4321@rwth-aachen.de> <1995Jul11.134556.3838@hanse.de> <1995Jul12.105656.5572@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul12.105656.5572@rwth-aachen.de>, dkowalski@rwth-aachen.de (Dong-hyun Kowalski) writes: > Node 14 is the master clock. That's why the decoded line for Row 14 says: 'ROW 14. NO JOKE.' Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! -- === Elaine Vasiliev === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University Engineering Computer Network "They will send a copy in my place." From tpark@u-tokyo.ac.jp Fri Jul 14 03:12:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!u-tokyo!tpark From: tpark@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Takeshi Park) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jul14.031256.2235@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 03:12:56 GMT References: <1995Jul11.022856.4321@rwth-aachen.de> <1995Jul11.134556.3838@hanse.de> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul11.134556.3838@hanse.de>, jperez@hanse.de (Julien Pérez) 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. -- Takeshi Park "Row 14. No joke." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / FreeBSD 2.1