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The European spacecraft is neither an outright waste of money nor a potential platform for better things but a reminder that software (in the sense of forethought) is more important than mere hardware.
The notion that a solar oscillation may be stimulated by a train of gravitational waves from a nearby binary star, however preliminary, is an intriguing pointer to novel methods.
