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Subject: Space tether
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Date: Tue, 31-Jul-84 22:05:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 31 22:05:23 1984
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From:  Duncan A. Buell 

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?