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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><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark via extropy-chat<br><br><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><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'><a href="https://youtu.be/Febfj41cBmg" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Febfj41cBmg</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>>…That is a good video, it's pretty much with Steven Pinker's </span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>t</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>hought provoking</span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>book </span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>"B</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>etter </span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>A</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>ngels </span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>O</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>f </span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>O</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>ur </span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>N</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>ature</span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>" </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>is all about</span><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><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><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>I am a big fan of Pinker and the Angels book. I didn’t hear of it until about spring of 2016, but John you likely already know what was consuming my full and undivided in 2016. I was there, at SLAC, when the first public announcement of the LIGO results were made. It was hard to think of much else for some time after I heard that sound.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>I remember being in that huge auditorium, packed to the rafters, as the good professor went thru the argument for how they isolated the signal, separated it from random noise, reached the end of his talk and commented “…so we took the frequencies and translated them into something your ear can detect…”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>600 geeks, standing room only, it was so quiet in there you could hear your own heartbeat. Then he said: “This… is the sound… of two black holes merging:”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><a href="https://youtu.be/QyDcTbR-kEA">https://youtu.be/QyDcTbR-kEA</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>I marveled at living to hear that sound. I was filled with gratitude that my friend from college came out from Colorado to join me in that talk. Gratitude is negative anger. I have enough of it to cancel any residual anger from everything else.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>