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Albert rocks

02/11/2016 2:37 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/breakthrough-scientists-detect-einstein-predicted-ripples-154314697.htmlawesome stuff
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02/11/2016 2:47 PM

Gyro rolls.

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02/11/2016 9:21 PM

No, not rolls, pitas. Damn it! Now you made me hungry. I hope George's is still open.
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02/11/2016 2:55 PM

I live almost next to the place--gotta go do the tour.

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02/11/2016 2:57 PM

don't knock anything over!
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02/11/2016 3:15 PM

If I kick the door, will it register as a gravity wave?

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02/11/2016 3:19 PM

our solar system might get swallowed by a black hole..the universe is delicate!
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02/11/2016 7:08 PM

The magnitude of the gravity waves detected by LIGO is equivalent to stretching and compressing the width of the Milky Way galaxy by the width of your thumb. Pretty amazing!

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02/11/2016 7:14 PM

it's cool to prove such an old theory and to be able to detect an event from a billion years ago, I was rather impressed
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02/12/2016 8:12 AM

Saw this this morning...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

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