From smartinez@kth.se Fri Aug 19 07:24:21 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kth!smartinez From: smartinez@kth.se (Sven Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994Aug19.072421.2601@kth.se> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 07:24:21 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. One routing path lists: 'cascade!transat!orbit-01!stardust'. Orbit-01? Are four of the relay nodes located on satellites? The Public Harmony Acts authorized the deployment of commercial broadcast satellites in geosynchronous orbit in 1983. -- Sven Martínez "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / Linux 1.2.13 From hkuznetsov@panix.com Sun Aug 21 08:38:21 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!panix!hkuznetsov From: hkuznetsov@panix.com (Hana Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994Aug21.083821.2940@panix.com> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 1994 08:38:21 GMT References: <1994Aug19.072421.2601@kth.se> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Aug19.072421.2601@kth.se>, smartinez@kth.se (Sven Martínez) writes: > The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. > Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. Node 14 is the master clock. That's why the decoded line for Row 14 says: 'ROW 14. NO JOKE.' -- Hana Kuznetsov US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens."