Ian Molton wrote:

On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 19:55:15 +0000
Julian Fowler wrote:

and there's considerable latency on d/l

no great surprise - the backchannel is slow, and the satellite is a decent fraction of the way to the moon ;-)

Perhaps I've missed a giggle here, but surely the satellite has to be
the same distance away from earth as the moon? :

faux-pasingly yours,
N.

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