From mnilsson@kiae.su Mon Jul 24 14:31:28 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!mnilsson From: mnilsson@kiae.su (Min-jun Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Question: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jul24.143128.1938@kiae.su> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 14:31:28 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. In the recovered telemetry dumps, Nodes 11-14 have IP/UUCP addresses that don't route through any known terrestrial ISP. The Public Harmony Acts authorized the deployment of commercial broadcast satellites in geosynchronous orbit in 1983. -- Min-jun Nilsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From mchoi@uni-hamburg.de Wed Jul 26 04:09:28 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uni-hamburg!mchoi From: mchoi@uni-hamburg.de (Marta Choi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jul26.040928.6250@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 04:09:28 GMT References: <1995Jul24.143128.1938@kiae.su> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Jul24.143128.1938@kiae.su>, mnilsson@kiae.su (Min-jun Nilsson) writes: > Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! -- Marta Choi -- Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"