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    Hot on the heels of their Nobel Prize, the LIGO collaboration is announcing the first detection of a neutron star collision. Unlike with black hole collisions, this one had a photon-based detection, in the form of a gamma ray burst picked up by the Fermi space telescope. So that confirms that neutron star collisions are producing the short gamma ray bursts we've been detecting for years. In addition, some heavy elements were found in the debris; these were unlikely to be formed in supernovas, so we weren't entirely sure how they got here. Now we know.

    It's a great validation for the National Science Foundation, which funded LIGO to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, all without a guarantee that it would ultimately work.

    The story's going to be all over the place - it was released at 10am US Eastern, so i don't have links at the moment.
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    What's with all the collisions? Are they driving drunk? they need to take defensive driving courses.

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      Originally posted by Sparko View Post
      What's with all the collisions? Are they driving drunk? they need to take defensive driving courses.
      Gravity has a habit of proving it still works.
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        Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
        Gravity has a habit of proving it still works.
        Sometimes painfully so, as my wife experienced a couple weeks ago on a sidewalk at work.
        The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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          Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
          Gravity has a habit of proving it still works.
          Gravity is an atheistic lie. It is all Intelligent Attraction (or as I prefer, Intelligent Falling).

          I'm always still in trouble again

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            Originally posted by TheLurch View Post
            Hot on the heels of their Nobel Prize, the LIGO collaboration is announcing the first detection of a neutron star collision. Unlike with black hole collisions, this one had a photon-based detection, in the form of a gamma ray burst picked up by the Fermi space telescope. So that confirms that neutron star collisions are producing the short gamma ray bursts we've been detecting for years. In addition, some heavy elements were found in the debris; these were unlikely to be formed in supernovas, so we weren't entirely sure how they got here. Now we know.

            It's a great validation for the National Science Foundation, which funded LIGO to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, all without a guarantee that it would ultimately work.

            The story's going to be all over the place - it was released at 10am US Eastern, so i don't have links at the moment.
            This is an incredible result. I was amazed when I saw it. Amazing to thing that the gold we use and is so rare on this world is produced in such an event.

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              Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
              Gravity is an atheistic lie. It is all Intelligent Attraction (or as I prefer, Intelligent Falling).
              That is nothing but Gravity of the Gaps.

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                Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                Sometimes painfully so, as my wife experienced a couple weeks ago on a sidewalk at work.
                Your wife works on a sidewalk?

                No, scratch that.
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