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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><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 <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 27, 2019 3:32 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] LIGO<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 4:51 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=gmaildefault><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>></span></i></span><i>Aren’t you glad you lived this late in history? </i><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>>…Indeed I am, the good old days sucked compared with now! And if we're lucky before the end of the year a fourth detector, KAGRA in Japan, may join the party</span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>;</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> and although smaller than LIGO it might turn out to be </span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>even </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>more sensitive because unlike the other 3 it</span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>'</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>s built underground and does not work at room temperature but is cooled down to 20 degrees Kelvin (-253 C, -425 F) . I think that is very cool, in more ways than one.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>John k Clark<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault>Indeed. Now that we know there is something there to be found, money for gravity wave detectors flows like the river and physics students are falling all over themselves to learn up on gravity models. It took so long and was so hard to get the first LIGO built. But now, noooo problem, and staffing it is even easier.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Plenty of scientists are realizing that the LIGOs are perhaps the most valuable scientific instruments now available from the point of view of science per dollar ROI.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>