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Re:Astrophysicists do a 3-day long AMA about the discovery o... by BananaPelican on Sunday February 14, 2016 @10:41PM (#11101400)
(Also cheating by not linking to a Reddit post)

I know this is speculative, but do you think it is possible and/or plausible that measurement precision could be improved to the point where we generate gravity waves to transmit data much as we do with EM waves?

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Re:Astrophysicists do a 3-day long AMA about the discovery o... by topquark on Monday February 15, 2016 @03:28AM (#11102143)
Another LIGO scientist here. It takes an overwhelming amount of energy to generate gravitational waves, and detecting them from terrestrial sources is about 20 orders of magnitude more difficult than the measurement we just made. Space, is extremely stiff; bending it enough to be detectable requires a huge amount of mass-energy.
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