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A Problem Squared

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The Power of Data

A single viral particle has in its RNA, you know, not DNA, but the RNA in the virus, roughly seven and a half kilobytes of data per cell. A friend of mine was like, given how much data as a, that got us thinking, if you did have, let's say 200 milliliters of coronavirus particles, so we're going for the kind of upper bound, how much data is there in there? And we worked out a full can of soda is the equivalent of over 600 million one terabyte hard drives. Isn't that insane? How do we harness this power? Itty bitty, tiny phones. But still, I mean,

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