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To: Dragonfly who wrote (3300)	5/21/1998 5:51:00 PM
From: Bernard Levy	Respond to of 10852

Dragonfly: I am sure that Valueman will want to answer this one himself, but GEOs are essential for broad based information distribution, such as IP multicasting services (Internet content, distributed enterprise applications, etc...) Also, there are some data transfer operations (transfer of very large files) which are not time sensitive, and which would congest land-based gateways or a LEO network. In fact, look carefully at the different types of service classes offered by ATM (such as CBR, VBR, ABR, etc ...) and the types of traffic for each class. You will see that several types are much better adapted for GEO transfer. Best regards, Bernard Levy

To: Dragonfly who wrote (3300)	5/22/1998 3:54:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 10852

"You can't change the speed of light. Its a fact." Heh! Heh! Heh! Wanna bet? Wait'll you see what some upspun gravitons can do to photonic wave function variations. Think of a big, long, one dimensional black hole for a clue! How fast do you think "photons" will rip along in THAT? Meanwhile GEOs and a half second delay in every click to a Web site are going to drive Web addicts demented. LEO is the way to GO! GEO is just way too slow! Celestri folded up the tent Teledesic's pipes are bent, 'Coz Motorola will go wrong... Qualcomm RULZ are just too strong. Iridium hopes are overdone... Globalstar is much more fun,