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What's it hooked to?
A counter weight in geostationary orbit. n/t
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9/24/2013 12:15:15 AM
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A counter weight in geostationary orbit. n/t
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What's it hooked to?
- TB -
9/23/2013 10:46:20 PM
A minute thermal updraft . . .
- DanS -
10/1/2013 10:35:05 PM
Aha! "When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead
- bowser -
9/24/2013 3:59:24 AM
Would one thread reflect that much light?
- bowser -
9/24/2013 3:55:28 AM
From the right angle? Yeah.
- TB -
9/24/2013 4:07:51 AM
maybe it was just at the wrong angle higher up....
- Tony -
10/3/2013 2:38:26 PM
Atmospheric plankton
- ER -
9/24/2013 1:23:02 AM
"Charlotte's Web" comes to mind . . .
- DanS -
10/3/2013 11:07:27 PM
Sun glint.
- TB -
9/24/2013 2:04:36 AM
A counter weight in geostationary orbit. n/t
- RobVG -
9/24/2013 12:15:15 AM
Smarty pants.
- Jody -
9/24/2013 12:38:50 AM
Well, the elevator part of a space elevator is called a "crawler"
- RobVG -
9/24/2013 1:43:10 AM
A line strung between two trees?
- alcaray -
9/23/2013 11:16:39 PM
Another tree limb in another dimension.
- Jody -
9/23/2013 11:16:14 PM
Very strange TB...but I love strange.
- Jody -
9/23/2013 11:17:16 PM
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