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Livingston, LA made national space news
Posted on 11/18/17 at 8:01 pm
Posted on 11/18/17 at 8:01 pm
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LIGO has detected another black hole merger, raising the tally to five. On November 15th, five months after the spacetime ripples jiggled LIGO’s instruments, astronomers announced the detection of their sixth gravitational-wave discovery, which is the fifth from the merger of two black holes. The event, GW170608, came from the union of the smallest black holes scientists have yet “seen” using this technique.
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The waves hit LIGO at 02:01:16 Universal Time on June 8th, during the project’s second observing run (November 30th to August 25th). Their passage triggered the alarm at the site in Livingston, Louisiana, but the detector in Hanford, Washington, was under routine maintenance and had its alert system turned off.
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Where exactly is this LIGO site in Livingston?
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Posted on 11/18/17 at 8:06 pm to RidiculousHype
Thinks it's out near holden. Serious question. What does these type findings do for mankind? What can it help with?
Posted on 11/18/17 at 8:08 pm to phil good
Understand the fundamentals of the universe.
Posted on 11/18/17 at 8:16 pm to RidiculousHype
North if I12 near Satsuma.
Middle of nowhere for a reason.
LIGO Livingston
19100 Ligo Rd, Livingston, LA 70754
(225) 686-3100
Google maps, I think
Those long arse lines leading out from the center are the lazers
Middle of nowhere for a reason.
LIGO Livingston
19100 Ligo Rd, Livingston, LA 70754
(225) 686-3100
Google maps, I think
Those long arse lines leading out from the center are the lazers
This post was edited on 11/18/17 at 8:20 pm
Posted on 11/18/17 at 8:17 pm to RidiculousHype
19100 Ligo Ln, Livingston, LA 70754
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/LA
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/LA
Posted on 11/18/17 at 8:19 pm to GEAUXmedic
Man that's pretty neat. I wonder what the criteria is..maybe they want to be near a major research university, but out of the city lights?
Posted on 11/18/17 at 8:20 pm to RidiculousHype
No vibration is what I was told back in 2002 or so.
Wanted a lot of buffer zone.
Not sure what LSU really does in relation with it. That is where I heard the lecture though. Back before the heard black holes collide and it was all theory.
Wanted a lot of buffer zone.
Not sure what LSU really does in relation with it. That is where I heard the lecture though. Back before the heard black holes collide and it was all theory.
This post was edited on 11/18/17 at 8:22 pm
Posted on 11/18/17 at 8:23 pm to RidiculousHype
They do tours of the facility for the public
Posted on 11/18/17 at 8:23 pm to RidiculousHype
First city to naturally develop an incest bast AIDS
This post was edited on 11/18/17 at 8:24 pm
Posted on 11/18/17 at 8:23 pm to tigers win2
Think they will let me use the lazer?
Posted on 11/18/17 at 8:25 pm to phil good
quote:
Thinks it's out near holden. Serious question. What does these type findings do for mankind? What can it help with?
It gives experimental evidence of how brilliant Einstein was, and allows us to push his work further.
Seriously., think about it.
He came up equations that modelled the universe, sometimes in circumstances that were not known to exist back then, with experimental evidence unable to be attained until decades later.
He was able to attain mathematical precision a description of the universe with little more than educated intuition.
This post was edited on 11/18/17 at 10:07 pm
Posted on 11/18/17 at 8:30 pm to RidiculousHype
I thought I was going to read about a meth lab explosion seen from space.
Posted on 11/18/17 at 8:43 pm to RidiculousHype
My kids went on a field trip there last week and thought it was cool
Posted on 11/18/17 at 9:06 pm to RidiculousHype
Got to work on the facility when I was in college during construction. Basically a main building and then two sup stations 2.5 miles away at 90 degrees from each other. They have a welded tube that had to be constructed that 2.5 miles and only be a fraction of an inch off.
Posted on 11/18/17 at 9:35 pm to tigeraddict
Any idea what those 90 degree 2.5 tubes are used for? What is the significance of the distance and angle?
Posted on 11/18/17 at 9:35 pm to TigerTatorTots
Lasers
Take advantage of earth curvature to shoot deep into space.
There is at least one other LIGO facility (cali?) And several other similar setups that all share information.
Take advantage of earth curvature to shoot deep into space.
There is at least one other LIGO facility (cali?) And several other similar setups that all share information.
This post was edited on 11/18/17 at 9:37 pm
Posted on 11/18/17 at 9:39 pm to TigerTatorTots
quote:Skynet Genesis.
Any idea what those 90 degree 2.5 tubes are used for? What is the significance of the distance and angle
Posted on 11/18/17 at 9:43 pm to RidiculousHype
I guess most here missed where they helped prove a theory of Einstein recently and won a Nobel prize in physics.
Posted on 11/18/17 at 9:53 pm to theunknownknight
You're from French Settlement, pretty sure any incest disease was started by your people. See, FSD (French settlement disease)
This post was edited on 11/19/17 at 2:17 am
Posted on 11/18/17 at 9:59 pm to fightin tigers
No, they don’t shoot into space.
How it do what it do
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Lasers are beamed down each arm and bounced back by mirrors, essentially acting as a ruler for the arm. Sensitive detectors can tell if the length of the arms of a LIGO detector varies by as little as 1/10,000 the width of a proton, representing the incredibly small scale of the effects imparted by passing gravitational waves.
How it do what it do
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