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Off Topic » in reply to Would one thread reflect that much light?

From the right angle? Yeah.

TB — 9/24/2013 4:07:51 AM (archived)

Move a foot or two either way, and it flickers out. I'm still voting for alcaray's idea as the most plausible.

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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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