Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!buell%lsu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa From: buell%lsu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Space tether Message-ID: <597@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-Jul-84 22:05:23 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.597 Posted: Tue Jul 31 22:05:23 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 03:44:52 EDT Lines: 11 From: Duncan A. BuellVolume 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?