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Welcome to Astronomycast for a weekly facts based journey through the cosmos. We'll help you understand only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Cain, I'm the Pulitzer of University Day, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University, Ebertsville, and the Director of Cosmic Quest.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well. How are you doing?

Awesome. Super excited about the gravitational waves announcement. We of course predicted this years ago in Astronomycast.

But it's nice to see modern science catching up with the stuff that we've explained for our listeners over the last couple of years.

But you know, it still wasn't a six-sigma detection. They have spent billions, well at least many, many millions, and they have one low signal to the audience.

No, be more. No way to predict that. That's the thing.

I'm being a cramajin. I am. I am. I am. I am a cramajin.

Yeah.

So today's episode of Astronomycast is brought to you by Casper mattresses.

And I know we've mentioned Casper a few times in the past. They are kind of an amazing new mattress company where instead of going to a showroom, they ship you the mattress through the mail in this crazy box.

It's all just really squished in and then you open it up and the thing kind of expands.

And this is great hybrid foam mattress. It's got this latex foam and then also this memory foam, the two work together.

Now I own the story is like they sent Pamela and myself sample mattresses. I had to have mine sent to the States at the time.

So I took my girlfriend and her wife in the States.

And I really love the mattress, but we had to leave it there when my wife from Canada.

So I bought a second one for our bed.

It's like on my own, but my own dime. And then I got another one for the spare bedroom because we needed their mother mattress in there.

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