Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

But that's only because our constellation is so big.

So we're just detecting changes one part in 10 to the minus 20 because that's how strong the gravitational waves are.

But because the mirrors are separated by such a huge distance, then the differential scale ends up being bigger.

Right.

The other thing is that many of these massive black holes, when they merge, they're so loud.

And so the kinds of signals that we're going to get are having signal-to-noise ratios of thousands.

Wow.

he's not wrong in that these, these are really, really loud signals.

And so you, your, your instrument just has to work and then you'll definitely catch the, you know, the gravitational wave signal, but you have to get up there.

And it takes a while to, to build the instrument to get up there.

And I'm trying not to cry right now, y'all.

Yeah, I'm going to turn serious now because that's actually happening.

You know, the latest president's budget request has zeroed out, Lisa.

And so we are a partnership with ESA and NASA.

NASA is a junior partner.

And...

The U.S., if this request goes through, the U.S.

can no longer participate and give our technology to this mission.

You're totally right.

Sorry, I interrupted you.