Yeah the funding necessary for large scale gravitational wave research wouldn't have been forthcoming unless everybody had been convinced GR was the best description available for decades.
Einstein predicted gravity waves but didn't expect we'd ever have the technology to measure them.
One of my Dutch coworkers always brought in chocolates. He said that once at Philips he played one of Pieter's countrymen for the company event (yes in full makeup).
The relativistic model was demonstrated to better describe the transit of Venus than Newtonian mechanics. It had been quickly proposed as a good test, was generally accepted as the crucial experiment, and all of this happened very fast.
When Top Gear chained the thing down to go through a cycle of the tides in the fucking North Atlantic and their mechanics could restart the thing on the fucking beach...
I read and loved Freefall, and specifically Florence. After I caught up, I went to read what other people had to say, and I saw a comment like "must-read if you're a furry!"
At first I was like "psh, that's not a furry comic". But about an hour later the dominoes started to fall for me.
Well, speaking as someone who came to realize that I was working for a company that was ripping off its customers, you've already gone through a LOT of stress before you get to that point.
I don't get it