My GR professor wouldn't let me use binary pulsars as evidence for gravitational waves in polite conversation, because it wasn't a direct observation. I replied "But what else _could_ it be?" He smiled, shook his head a little, and wandered off.
Anyway, it is an astonishing engineering triumph indeed.
Ray Lee
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