Re: >H Re: The Great Filter
Forrest Bishop (forrestb@ix.netcom.com)
Sun, 16 Mar 1997 15:09:16 -0600 (CST)
>The implication of this theory to me is that we should get cracking
>building gravity wave detectors (LIGO and successors) that could spot
>closely orbiting neutron stars in nearby space before the final
>collision.
>
> Paul
Radio telescopes appear to be pretty good at picking these out,
and predicting their collision dates. Space-based VLBI versions shoud
be even better.
A set of space-based, 3D LIGOs separated by some millions of kilometers
might be a cool way to creat a tomographic map of the gravitational
waves.
Forrest