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From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP (Allen England)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Space tether
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Date: Sat, 4-Aug-84 10:08:45 EDT
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 > 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.

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