From shernandez@uni-hamburg.de Sat Apr 15 10:50:49 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uni-hamburg!shernandez From: shernandez@uni-hamburg.de (Sven Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Apr15.105049.5898@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 10:50:49 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. 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? -- Sven Hernández *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0 From mtanaka@inria.fr Mon Apr 17 00:48:49 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!inria!mtanaka From: mtanaka@inria.fr (Min-jun Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Apr17.004849.2334@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 00:48:49 GMT References: <1995Apr15.105049.5898@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr15.105049.5898@uni-hamburg.de>, shernandez@uni-hamburg.de (Sven Hernández) 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! -- Min-jun Tanaka Hayes Optima 288 @ 19,200 bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From brobertson@earthlink.net Mon Apr 17 11:24:49 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!earthlink!brobertson From: brobertson@earthlink.net (Bruno Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Apr17.112449.2552@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 11:24:49 GMT References: <1995Apr15.105049.5898@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr15.105049.5898@uni-hamburg.de>, shernandez@uni-hamburg.de (Sven Hernández) writes: > Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. > Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. Nova isn't in a vault. Her code was transmitted to the orbital relays before the building burned. -- === Bruno Robertson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, EarthLink Network "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."