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I think that would depend upon how far away it would be. I honestly don't know how far away we could detect such events.Frame Dragger said:
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Chalnoth said:
Well, maybe we'll all get lucky. Stranger things have happened... Maybe there are two 100x or more stellar mass BH's a 10 ly or so away about to merge perfectly perpendicular to the plane of LIGO! Fingers crossed everyone!
Hey, maybe this is the 2012 issue those lunatics go on about. We'll get full confirmation of GR/QM, then immidiately be accreted.
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Frame Dragger said:Well, maybe we'll all get lucky. Stranger things have happened... Maybe there are two 100x or more stellar mass BH's a 10 ly or so away about to merge perfectly perpendicular to the plane of LIGO! Fingers crossed everyone!
Hey, maybe this is the 2012 issue those lunatics go on about. We'll get full confirmation of GR/QM, then immidiately be accreted.
LOL Now that is an end of the world I would buy tickets for. I'd just hope we get slung into deep space... a literal spaceship earth.