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#195 – Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets
Lex Fridman Podcast
Do You Know the Spectra of the 16,000 Molecules?
There are about 16,000 molecules we care about when looking for a new Earth or when we try to detect alien biosignatures. We understand about 4% of them, more or less. But the other 96%, we just really have barely any idea at all of where in the spectrum of light they would leave a mark. So I did Fosseen really the best that I could, the best that could be done with the computer power that we have. And then I thought, what if I do a worst job? What if I just do a much worse job? And can I just make it much faster? And then it's still worth it? How bad can I get before
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