Background

"Illustration" courtesy of:  https://www.craiyon.com "noise"

How is LIGO doing these days?  We are or aren't sure things are going well.

Did any individual working for ITER (let's say a public relations employee) convey the suggestion about listening to that troublesome gravitational noise directly?  Some conversations by phone get lost in translation.

Advice aside, has any individual hypothesized or theorized that LIGO's "noise problem" is or isn't what it may or may not seem?

Do we have a "home grown" gravitational noise or wave "background"?

The first or last "civilization" or "message" they "detect" may or may not be "local".

Backward or "at a loss".