The LIGO detectors were <i>very</i> carefully constructed to rule out this sort of noise; they are the result of a lot of human engineering ingenuity. It turns out that before making this investment in instrumentation specifically for the purpose of detecting gravitational waves, the scientists in question also came up with the objections that you spent presumably less than fifteen minutes thinking of. They then spent time and substantial engineering effort to avoid those objections.<p>My tone here is rather curt as it&#x27;s clear your skepticism is unfounded and that you didn&#x27;t look at even the layman explanations put out by the scientists who made these claims. For example, the video announcement talks about the construction of the equipment in question: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=aEPIwEJmZyE&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=2936" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=aEPIwEJmZyE&amp;feature=youtu.be...</a> and specifically t=3310 talks <i>directly</i> about how they worked to avoid detecting the motion of the earth.