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Steinn explains what the LIGO null results mean
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"The Hugo Awards for 2009 are going to be presented at the World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne in September next year. The Best Graphic Story category is only a year old, and I think SF fans might benefit from a broad brush introduction to some of the many comics out there that they might consider nominating. I'd like this to be the first of many such articles, from many people."
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LIGO has measured nothing to greater precision than all previous measurements of nothing.
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"The two iron laws of parking:
1. There is never enough.
2. Thou shalt not add parking, anywhere, ever.Corrolary: Calling attention to the contradiction between 1 and 2 is bad form."
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