From mrobertson@delphi.com Fri Sep 22 03:19:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!delphi!mrobertson From: mrobertson@delphi.com (Mike Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Data: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Sep22.031944.9400@delphi.com> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 03:19:44 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. The Public Harmony Acts authorized the deployment of commercial broadcast satellites in geosynchronous orbit in 1983. -- Mike Robertson "We don't sign stars. We build them." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / AmigaOS 3.1 From dandersson@mit.edu Sat Sep 23 05:00:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mit!dandersson From: dandersson@mit.edu (Dmitri Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Sep23.050044.9571@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 05:00:44 GMT References: <1995Sep22.031944.9400@delphi.com> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep22.031944.9400@delphi.com>, mrobertson@delphi.com (Mike Robertson) 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! -- Dmitri Andersson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.