From pgirard@pacbell.net Sat Jul 20 06:11:22 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!pacbell!pgirard From: pgirard@pacbell.net (Pavel Girard) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Jul20.061122.5819@pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 06:11:22 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. 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. -- Pavel Girard Zyxel U-1496E @ ISDN 64k bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From abrennan@illinois.edu Sat Jul 20 09:31:22 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!abrennan From: abrennan@illinois.edu (Anja Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Jul20.093122.6694@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 09:31:22 GMT References: <1996Jul20.061122.5819@pacbell.net> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul20.061122.5819@pacbell.net>, pgirard@pacbell.net (Pavel Girard) writes: > The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. > 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! -- Anja Brennan Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From dkang@ox.ac.uk Sun Jul 21 07:50:22 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!dkang From: dkang@ox.ac.uk (Dave Kang) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Jul21.075022.2559@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 07:50:22 GMT References: <1996Jul20.061122.5819@pacbell.net> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1996Jul20.061122.5819@pacbell.net>, pgirard@pacbell.net (Pavel Girard) writes: > The geographic math of Project Stardust doesn't add up. > Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Dave Kang Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------