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#195 – Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Venus Is Venusians, Until We Know What They Call Theirself

Until we know what they call themselves, that's the name. I've been working on phosphine for over a decade. Before it was cool. And at the time, people either didn't know what phosphine was or only knew it for being just possibly the most horrendous molecule that ever graced the earth. The lead author of the study thought to look in the clouds of Venus and then reached out to me to say, "I don't know phosphine, but I know it's weird how weird is it? And the answer is very weird"

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