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#195 – Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets
Lex Fridman Podcast
How Many Total Are There?
He says there are 16.8 billion molecules in the rainbow of colors. So presumably this rainbow is discretized into a little segment somehow. We don't have the instruments to break these, break any light into this many tiny segments. And so with the instruments we do have, there's huge amounts of overlap. In an ideal world, if we had infinite resolution, then every molecule's spectral features will be unique.
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