>Yep, calibration and clean-up of the data transmitted back to earth from the experiment has taken on a life all its own, and given some unexpected effects interfering with the gyroscopes, which require additional adjustments to the data, make me wonder how accurate and unbiased the final results will be.
I am not so worried about the accuracy - it does seem they are doing a great effort to verify everything, and not make unfounded claims.
I was merely thinking, whether it would have been easier to go to Jupiter (a black hole or neutron star being too far away for now). But I am not so sure about the feasibility.
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