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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] More news from LIGO on October 16<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> Rainer Weiss</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>>…"The gravitational<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>waves are interesting, and the fact that you can directly detect them is important, but the real payoff is going to be in the future</span></i><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>.</span></i><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> It's already happened, in some regards, and more of it will happen on October 16. I won't tell you what it is, but I can tell you that there is more there, and I think there's another whoop-de-do arranged for that. And I urge you to go to it, because the announcement is actually very interesting. But I won't say any more than that."<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>John K Clark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best guess, they will tell us they found a merger of two neutron stars. That will have a different signature from the black hole merger. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Henceforth every gathering of geeks should be called a whoop-de-do. If others are present besides the usual suspects, we hardcore types, that can still be a schmooze. Otherwise, a whoop-de-do.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ooooooh this is cool.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>