Is there life on Venus and will it become a second Earth? What do we even know about a planet with hellish heat on its surface, where tin and lead melt? Will people return to the Moon and why does humanity need the Moon? Donation link: https://www.donationalerts.com/r/radi... Earth, Mars, Venus and the rest of space — live on the GlumOFF show from the most informed and most popular astronomer Vladimir Surdin. A conversation about black holes, white dwarfs, red giants, Elon Musk and space colonization, the boundaries of the Universe, science and metaphysics. Click the bell to stay up to date with premieres on our channel. 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Address to subscribers 1:42 - Introduction of the guest - Vladimir Surdin, astronomer, associate professor of the Physics Department of Moscow State University 2:38 - About the upcoming lecture about Venus 3:01 - What the word "life" means for an astronomer, what astronomers put into this concept and how it differs from biologists 5:07 - What astronomers are looking for on Venus; Is life possible there and what kind of life? 7:39 - Why should the inhabitants of Earth study Mars or Venus? 8:47 - What is the reason for the increased interest in the Moon? 10:33 - Refuting the myth that the Americans were not on the Moon and why the USSR was not the first to land on the Moon 13:25 - The Big Bang: was it or was it not? What the telescope saw; young galaxies and black holes 18:00 - About gravitational waves - what can they tell us and what have astronomers already heard 19:45 - How many Big Bangs were there, and do universes intersect with each other? 22:58 - Surdin shows an example of how mathematics argues with physics 23:24 - Questions from viewers: about the Armenian Aerospace Agency 24:26 - Why is money spent on wars, not on space development? 25:42 - Drawing by Yegor Glumov's son and a question about black holes, Surdin's acquaintance with Stephen Hawking 29:58 - What happens inside a black hole, and what are "wormholes" 31:50 - Elon Musk, space colonization and business, will there be a flight to Mars 34:17 - Why and who needs a flight to Mars, how Elon Musk spends money 36:50 - About Yuri Milner - a businessman of Russian origin who invests money in space 39:09 - Observatory in Byurakan: past, present and future; About Viktor Ambartsumyan 41:03 - Who should finance astronomical science and what is happening to it in Russia now 44:04 - Questions from the audience: about the first Armenian satellite 45:02 - If we are not alone in the Universe, then why can't we hear anyone 47:59 - Vladimir Surdin on how nuclear bombs can destroy our civilization 48:49 - A question from his son Yegor about the largest known star and whether there are even larger ones 50:06 - Which star and in which constellation will explode very soon? 51:58 - Questions from the audience: about Paris Herouni and his theory 53:34 - Announcement of space events: what awaits us in the coming years? 56:05 - What should be done with a flying asteroid? 57:12 - Questions from the audience: about devices that study problems on Earth from space; About reconnaissance satellites 58:20 - Questions from the audience: Vladimir Surdin's favorite science fiction films - "Planet of Storms", "Contact", "Interstellar" 1:00:55 - About science fiction writers: Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Liu Qixin 1:01:47 - About Liu Qixin, his ideas and China 1:03:59 - Questions from the audience: Is it correct to ask about what preceded the Big Bang and the absence of time on the eve of the explosion? 1:06:20 - Questions from the audience: Is it possible to revive the observatory in Byurakan? 1:07:20 - How can AI help space research: benefits and harms? 1:09:24 - About relationships within the astronomical community 1:12:18 - There is no space and the Earth is flat? Surdin answers pseudoscience, the viewer and a Yerevan driver 1:15:22 - Questions from viewers: how unexpected can discoveries be on Saturn's moon Titan 1:16:50 - Surdin on exoplanets 1:18:23 - Questions from viewers: Ambartsumyan and the "Byurakan concept" 1:20:47 - Antimatter and dark matter - are they different things? 1:23:12 - What music sounds in space. 1:24:40 - The last question before parting. 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