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kleinbl00 · 18 days ago · link · · parent · post: Advanced Civilizations Could be Indistinguishable from Nature
So funny story. LIGO's number two guy was my best friend's dad, and I was there with them both at Caltech when they were still messing around with their demo gadget, rather than the geographical array. Who shows up but another guy I knew from high school, who I tried real hard not to get recognized by because he's really annoying. He did, of course, but not before expressing his skepticism that LIGO was going to be sensitive enough to detect anything; he ended up not going to Caltech because in his opinion, LIGO was "around six orders of magnitude" too insensitive to detect a neutron star.