[ExI] LIGO: RE: Hey, look on the bright side

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 19:51:27 UTC 2016


I am still trying to get my head around that: how could we have seen two
crazy-unlikely events in just a few weeks?  My view of the cosmos must be
serious flawed.  COOL!



spike


This expresses my feeling exactly.  I think somewhere along the line I lost
contact with the human race and am seriously out of contact with reality.
I am still stunned.  But as you say, life will go on and it probably won't
be as bad as the worst and not as good as the best, which is mostly how it
goes all the time.  This too will pass.


bill w

On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 10:47 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
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> >…it was supposed to happen in September but remember ​
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> Hofstadter's L​aw, it always takes longer than you think even when you
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> PS: thanks, for a few seconds I was thinking of something besides the
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> Me too!  Thanks to you John.  We took a pounding, 538 to zip, but as you
> posted, there is a bright side and it is bright indeed.  Having you post
> under the title look on the bright side is a good thing.  I am an
> inherently optimistic sort, like Tigger only without the springy tail
> (always wanted one of those, but evolution didn’t go there) so we kinda
> expect that from me.  Having you look on the bright side is a good thing.
> Even after this 538 to nada, LIGO is still coming.
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> To help us look on the bright side, consider:  what if…
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> What if… the LIGO upgrade had gone better and they had turned the thing on
> about Monday and had seen about a dozen signals that day.  Imagine how that
> would have been: we would go around looking dazed, bewildered, puzzled.
> Someone would make some kind of comment about an election, we would have no
> idea who won or what the heck had gone on because we would be looking over
> our equations and realizing everything we thought we knew was wrong.
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> That would be cool in itself I suppose, because then we would be trying to
> figure out how some other phenomenon could make gravity waves, or what the
> heck could have happened, sort of like an order of magnitude greater
> reaction than I had when that first signal was announced right after they
> turned on the devices.
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> I am still trying to get my head around that: how could we have seen two
> crazy-unlikely events in just a few weeks?  My view of the cosmos must be
> serious flawed.  COOL!
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> spike
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