I recently seen on a tv show a " 5 mile tether' that was lost into space and was glowing. And with the tether there were disks of many sizes. They seemed to have holes in the middle and a nick in one side. Anyway I didnt get to hear the whole explanation ( company knocking on my door). And I havent seen a darn thing about it since. So what was the deal with that? What happend? And what were the disks?

I've never heard of any such thing. What channel/program was this on? :-k

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I belive it was one of the shows they show from time to time on the Discovery Science Channle... could of been on plain old Discovery Channle or TLC. Im 90% sure it was DSC Science.

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That sounds a little like this. http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy...r/tethers.html

or this;
http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wtether.html

despite my enthusiasm for the fictional uses of this technology, the reality is a little disappointing...

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