mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org said: > Friday was spectacular, as we where a few lucky to be bussed out the LIGO > detector, Livingston. Extremely fascinating hardware. It's essentially a > Michelson interferometer with 4 km arms. When you are there you only see > half of it, as the building half-way down blocks the next half. ...
There is a book out: Black Hole Blues. Good, not fantastic. The author was on Science Friday shortly after the LIGO results were announced. She was on PBS NewsHour Monday. http://www.wnyc.org/story/listening-in-on-the-black-hole-blues-the-soundtrac k-of-the-universe/ The NSF press conference is on YouTube. There were a lot of happy people, especially the head of NSF who had sunk a lot of money into the project. I think it was the most expensive project NSF had ever funded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEPIwEJmZyE > BTW, this brings me to DC: > http://www.gps.gov/governance/advisory/meetings/2016-05/ 9:15 - 9:45 GPS Spoofing & Jamming: Uncovering Vulnerability Truths & Myths Dr. Brad Parkinson, 1st Vice-Chair In case you don't recognize the name, he was project manager for GPS. Stanford has an Engineering Heroes program. http://engineering.stanford.edu/news/video-bradford-parkinson-gps-humanity His talk is on YouTube. I thought it was good. May 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6I6wFf-X_c Not much time-nuttery, but interesting background on one of our favorite tools. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
