> On 16 feb 2016, at 20:07, Michael Black <mdblac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm reminded of what happened in the 80's when universities were claiming > galactic gamma sources but it turned out to be RORSATs. Numerous papers were > published about it.
This reminds me of something :) I had the privilege of meeting Jocelyn Bell a couple of years ago, at the awards ceremony of a science for kids contest. She gave an excellent talk for kids, speaking about all the manual work needed to discover the first pulsar. A year soldering wires to build a huge antenna, and all those endless paper rolls :) Of course she talked about the initial skepticism regarding the odd signals she saw. But finally it emerged that there was a new observation after all! By the way, I wondered. If computers had been used to analyze the data, would that signal have been spotted, or rather discarded as a measurement error? But in this case this is something indeed new. If I have understood correctly, what those two interferometers have detected is a very tiny deformation of the space-time. If it was just one detector it could be something like vibration due to a seismic event, but what both detectors registered is consistent. And gravitational waves are beyond our reach to produce, which means its origin can not be human and amateur gravity communications will have to wait for a very long time ;) It’s an exciting discovery indeeed, and it opens up a lot of possibilities! 73, Borja - EA2EKH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
