From brobertson@tum.de Thu May 12 07:45:59 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!brobertson From: brobertson@tum.de (Bastien Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994May12.074559.1562@tum.de> Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 07:45:59 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. The Public Harmony Acts authorized the deployment of commercial broadcast satellites in geosynchronous orbit in 1983. -- Bastien Robertson "Row 14. No joke." Atari Falcon 030 / Linux 1.2.13 From mramirez@cern.ch Sat May 14 00:30:59 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cern!mramirez From: mramirez@cern.ch (Marisol Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1994May14.003059.4004@cern.ch> Date: Sat, 14 May 1994 00:30:59 GMT References: <1994May12.074559.1562@tum.de> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994May12.074559.1562@tum.de>, brobertson@tum.de (Bastien Robertson) writes: > 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. Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! -- Marisol Ramírez -- European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."