From gramirez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Nov 04 12:01:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!u-tokyo!gramirez From: gramirez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Göran Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Nov04.120109.3738@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 12:01:09 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 Where are Nodes 11, 12, 13, and 14 physically located? Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. If Nodes 11-14 are in orbit, who is maintaining the transmitters now that Orion is bankrupt? -- Göran Ramírez -- University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From aramirez@cam.ac.uk Sun Nov 05 07:36:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cam!aramirez From: aramirez@cam.ac.uk (Astrid Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Nov05.073609.4041@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 1995 07:36:09 GMT References: <1995Nov04.120109.3738@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov04.120109.3738@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, gramirez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Göran Ramírez) writes: > Where are Nodes 11, 12, 13, and 14 physically located? Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! -- Astrid Ramírez Hayes Optima 288 @ 28,800 bps "Marcus is not one man."