Re: Maximal Light Delay

[Jonathan Silverlight]

In message <1123389370.894968.136540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 
r9ns@xxxxxxxxxxx writes
> It may
> be that the difference between the real motions and this simplified
> assumption is negligible but it is not obvious to me from your brief
> remarks.
>  Another consideration is that the radiation received in one case may
> have been sent directly from the craft and in the other case sent from
> the craft after having been relayed from the same earth station. In the
> relayed case the speed of light delay ignoring any coding and decoding
> delay would have been a only a second more according to the proposed
> hypothesis. But possible coding and decoding delay may have changed
> things. Your argument does not take this into consideration.

It's always "may" and "might" and "possible" in your arguments. And if 
your "coding and decoding" argument had any basis in reality the times 
involved would be completely arbitrary, depending on how the DSN 
computers handled the data.
As I've said before, this is all on file somewhere, and if instantaneous 
communication was possible they would be using it.