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So there's three elements that drive radioactive heating and there's potassium, uranium and thorium. In 2040, there's a space class going up, HWO, will launch and they'll be able to see an exoplanet history. So what they'll be doing for this, they'll be looking at an exoplanet's history, they'll be looking for some of these volatiles, they'll be looking for some of these volatiles in the atmosphere to see whether there's any indication that the planet has life. Of course the planet has to also be within a habitable zone, and then once they start looking at these volatiles, particularly in specific ratios, they'll get an idea of whether there's the possibility of life, or at least, as I keep repeating myself, life as we know it.