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Life, the Universe and Everything (with Adam Frank)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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The Evolution of Astronomy

I remember when I was a kid, which is not that long ago. We had not yet definitively identified any planet outside of our own solar system. And since then, if you could just take us through sort of by what order of magnitude our knowledge increases,. There's this thing called Moore's Law would suggest that the processing speed of a microprocessor doubles every 18 months. Is there a similar characterization you can make about our knowledge of the cosmos?

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