Date: 27/09/2017 12:39:23
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1123868
Subject: Gravitational Wave Announcement

CONFIRMED: A Huge Gravitational Wave Announcement Is About to Happen

Update 27/09/17: It’s happening! We have confirmation that the LIGO team will go ahead with the rumoured announcement today at 6:30pm Italian time (that’s 12:30pm EST).
We’ll be doing a live blog when that happens so stay tuned for a link to that right here!

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Date: 27/09/2017 12:48:49
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1123871
Subject: re: Gravitational Wave Announcement

How come we missed the announcement that there would be rumours of an announcement of an announcement?

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Date: 27/09/2017 13:07:55
From: PermeateFree
ID: 1123873
Subject: re: Gravitational Wave Announcement

Are we all going to die?

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Date: 27/09/2017 13:21:39
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1123875
Subject: re: Gravitational Wave Announcement

PermeateFree said:


Are we all going to die?

Undoubtedly.

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Date: 28/09/2017 14:03:24
From: Michael V
ID: 1124334
Subject: re: Gravitational Wave Announcement

http://www.sciencealert.com/new-ligo-virgo-gravitational-waves-neutron-stars-space-news-sept-2017

“IT’S OFFICIAL: Gravitational Waves Were Just Detected With The Greatest Precision Ever
This is a huge step forward.”

It’s kind of a non-announcement, really. We expected that joining three observatories would give greater precision. That greater precision means polarisation of gravity waves can be measured.

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Date: 28/09/2017 19:16:51
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1124663
Subject: re: Gravitational Wave Announcement

The ABC has an article about it as well

http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-09-28/gravitational-waves-detected-for-fourth-time-with-ligo-and-virgo/8994006

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