system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
When two neutron stars merge and cause a ripple of gravitational waves, what happens to the objects (planets, asteroids) near the merger?

Do objects get morphed as the fabric of spacetime stretches and shrinks? If a human was close enough, would they feel the gravitational wave?
gpt
I answered the question about what would happen if we were certain distances to the black hole merger we detected. Gravity waves produced by two neutron stars merging would be extremely weak. Here's what would happen if closer to the black hole merger we detected. 

"The waves we detected as they passed are extremely "weak". To give you an idea of how weak, at ten light years you wouldn't have actually personally noticed the waves we detected. At a little over one light year the gravitational waves would be a billion times stronger than we detected yet this would only be a shift in one of the LIGO arms of 4 nanometers. That's only about half the width of a hydrogen atom. The diameter of the Earth would shift by about a hundredth of a millimetre. This might cause some earthquakes that were on the verge of happening anyways but not the end of the world. Let’s now assume we’re at least 10,000 kilometers from ground zero and let's go ahead and factor out the gravity of the two initial orbiting black holes because if you were actually that close that's the real danger and we only want to feel the waves created by them combining. At that distance the shift caused by the gravitational waves would be about one part in a thousand. If you were floating in space you would likely feel that, since a person would experience a shift of a millimeter or two. Would it hurt, or possibly harm you? That’s hard to say. It would really depend on how resilient humans are to gravitational wave distortion, and we don’t have any experimental data on that."