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LIGO, an Uncommon card
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory designed to detect cosmic gravitational waves.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 87
- DEF
- 92
- Power
- 179
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 190,000
Power 179 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Prior to LIGO, all data about the universe had come in the form of light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation, from limited direct exploration on relatively nearby Solar System objects such as the Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and their moons, asteroids etc., and from high energy cosmic particles.
- Initially, two large observatories were built in the United States with the aim of detecting gravitational waves by laser interferometry.
- Two additional, smaller gravitational wave observatories are now operational: one in Japan, and one in Italy.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The LIGO article was read about 190,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 87 and blocks with 92: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get LIGO
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, LIGO (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Amber Stuver, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.


