giantoompaloompa
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No time frame for this one but I know it's 20+ years old. Humans settle a world and start terraforming, only to discover that if the planet's surface gets enough metals spread about (fertilizer is the first, accidental catalyst) the planet absorbs all the metals into a central core and alien machinery extrudes and launches a cable into space many kilometers in length. The cable is immensely strong and humans end up selling it to aliens.
The humans do end up making their way into the planet's interior to investigate the ancient alien machine responsible for the creation of the cables.
The humans do end up making their way into the planet's interior to investigate the ancient alien machine responsible for the creation of the cables.