Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!ihuxb!alle From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP (Allen England) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Space tether Message-ID: <789@ihuxb.UUCP> Date: Sat, 4-Aug-84 10:08:45 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxb.789 Posted: Sat Aug 4 10:08:45 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Aug-84 00:22:23 EDT References: <597@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 15 > Volume 4, Issue 262 addresses "real" attempts to hang a skyhook from > a satellite. This was the central theme of a science-fiction story > I read a year or two ago, which I cannot now find. I cannot, of course > (such is the nature of the universe), remember author or title. > Anyone else remember it? > The chief engineering problem of the story was the strength of the > cable. They used some newfangled wonder fibre. Are people now really > serious about this? The Novel was "The Fountains of Paradise" by Arthur C. Clarke. --> Allen <-- ihnp4!ihuxb!alle