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Re:Could 'Oumuamua be an icy fractal aggregate ejected from ... by bsder on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @08:26PM (#19204777)
I was under the impression from an interview that the first event that LIGO caught was held up so long before release because it was such a stupidly rare occurrence.
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Re:Could 'Oumuamua be an icy fractal aggregate ejected from ... by bjelkeman-again on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @02:13AM (#19206218)
Even as there are eleven observed events so far, that is from 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe [1]. So at 100 billion stars per galaxy [2] a guesstimate is that we are talking about 200 billion trillion stars. Seems even divided by eleven it seems pretty rare. (Not sure if the detector can “see” all those stars though.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe

[2] https://www.livescience.com/56634-how-many-stars-are-in-the-...

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