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This rings a bell. In the distant past, I heard of a scheme by some branch of the U.S. military (perhaps the Army) to produce a database "site" which would be always secured against natural disaster, etc. The idea was to transmit the data (in an encoded form) via radio to the moon, the signal would rebound from the moon and echo back to the earth where it would be regenerated and re-transmitted, hence forming a long, recirculating, delay loop. Cool idea, probably never implemented. It opens up all kinds of strange and wonderful ideas for "alternate technology" looping. You could set up long acoustic delay lines, using perhaps long wires or railroad tracks. I like the idea of the Internet as a delay (it usually functions as a delay anyway :) ). I read a book some time past where a person in Australia set-up transducers on long telegraph lines and "listened" to the environment. He spoke of it as a very Zen-like thing, like having your nervous system stretching for miles across the country-side. He could hear "ticks" as the wire heated up due to the morning sun, birds landing on the wire and clouds of insects colliding. I found it fascinating to read...but I ramble. - Dennis Leas David Evans wrote: > > Sunao Inami wrote: > > > > btw, > > A few days ago,I tested Real audio live encoding. > > It need about 6sec for encode to decode(encoder -> real server -> >probably > > many routers -> decoder). > > I can use it for delay machine.Internet delay loop ;) > > > > Now *that* is one of the craziest effects ideas I've ever heard of! > > -- > David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) >dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca > Computer/Synth Junkie >http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ > University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the >composer > Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 >Manual