I thought about it some more. I will have to agree that the signal is most likely produced by gravitational wave distortions of spacetime. I was thinking LIGO was behaving like a supersized siesmometer. However, if it behaved like siesmometer it would be incapable of generating such a signal.
Harry On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 12:39 PM, H LV <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > If seismic events include resonances on a continental or a global scale > such resonances could also be used to explain the signal. > > In the case of SETI an observed signal must be confirmed as > extra-terrestrial in origin before it is considered significant. However, > even if LIGO detected a terrestrial signal it would still be significant. > > Harry > > >> >