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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What new discoveries about Venus are discussed in this episode?
Hello and welcome to the last show. Hope you're prepped, excited, and feeling romantic for Valentine's Day tomorrow. Here's what we'll cover on the show tonight and some of the things you'll learn. Student professor flirting at university. Is it harmless charm or an academic hazard? In 10 minutes time, we'll unpack the study. Yes, someone study this.
Showing what kinds of students see flirting with their prof as less morally troubling. Because who doesn't love a good student teacher office hours?
Chapter 3: How do narcissistic students perceive flirting with professors?
Oh no. Then after that, do you think you can get burnout from being on social media too much? Is it possible to have a sense of digital well-being these days? What are your thoughts? Because we're going to tackle that question halfway through the hour. That is some of the night show. There will be more. Let's dive in. Want to be part of the last show with David Cooper?
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Chapter 4: What insights does Dr. Ashley Hass offer on social media burnout?
1-888-505-6644 Some people are from Mars. Some people are from Venus. There I made the name of that book, Gender Neutral. Let's go to the surface of Venus where lava tubes have been discovered. What does this mean? Why should we be excited about it?
That's what we're going to chat about here with astrophysicist and professor at the University of Edinburgh and author of Searching for Extraterrestrial Life, an Audible original at audible.com. Our name is Sarah Rugheimer. Sarah, welcome to the show.
Chapter 5: What is the significance of the gesture of turning away in human behavior?
Thanks for having me.
I remember as a kid seeing photos of that like Soviet probe that went to Venus in the early 80s, those like yellowy photographs. I think there was only two or three and just my mind being blown thinking that's a photograph of a surface of another planet. What gets you excited about Venus and also why is the surface so wild?
Yeah, so the Venera probes landed on Venus. Soviets are the only ones who have landed on Venus. And I think it's crazy just to even think about how difficult that is. Venus is really hell on Earth or hell on Venus, shall we say. The surface temperature is 460 some degrees Celsius over 860 degrees Fahrenheit below.
Chapter 6: What alarming trends in student mental health have been revealed since 2016?
The pressures are 90 bars, so like 90 times what Earth is. So getting that probe to the surface at all and then having it function at all was a major engineering feat, you know, and it lasted, you know, the first couple, I think, lasted tens of minutes and the last one lasted, you know, a little over two hours.
And then we got these photos of what is a desolate, desolate planet that we would never want to go to. And I think, you know, in the early days of our imagination, people thought Venus might be another Earth. It might be beautiful. It might have civilizations on it, like the early science fiction writers, because in many ways, Venus is very similar to Earth. It's the same size, same mass.
It's a little closer to the sun, but they didn't really understand that that would cause its temperature to be so hot. through a runaway greenhouse effect, which is what we're hoping to avoid.
Yeah, it's kind of a cautionary tale, like the greenhouse gas effect on Earth that causes warming and climate change.
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It's like on steroids on Venus.
a real deal. It's a real deal. And we actually think that Venus was habitable in its early surface, our early life. So even up to a billion years ago, we think that Venus was maybe habitable, had oceans.
And indeed, then at some point, that additional heat that comes from the greenhouse effect and from our sun caused all of the water to boil off and huge amounts of CO2 to be released from the surface. And now we have this really hellish place to go that we can barely visit.
So tell me about these lava tubes or lava tubes. I never know how to say that word. It's not uncommon for a planet to have something like that.
Chapter 8: What bizarre news stories are covered in this episode?
Yeah. So Venus, like Earth, you know, has volcanism on it. And we know this because of these surveys that have been done of Venus radio maps of the surface. It's a very young surface. So Mars is very old. We see lots of cratering. We think some of these craters, the amount of craters similar to our moon, it's maybe the surface is for over four billion years old, both the moon and Mars.
But Venus is different. It seems like Venus underwent this catastrophic resurfacing maybe half a billion years ago, which means that volcanism is still active on the planet and it erased a lot of the craters. And so how we are able to date solar system bodies is by kind of the number of craters. You know, Earth doesn't have a lot of craters on the surface, right?
We have tectonics that erase that record. And same with Venus. Venus has a very young surface. So it means volcanism is active. And now we have evidence of lava tubes is the short of it.
We've never seen a volcanic eruption on Venus, to your knowledge. I mean, if we keep pointing our cameras there, maybe we'll see a big boom. I don't know.
I mean, it seems to be more this episodic nature on Venus. So because Venus doesn't have oceans anymore, the tectonic activity is different. And so it seems to be kind of this catastrophic resurfacing events that happen. And that means the volcanism is different, but it's still fundamentally the same. You have this magma and you can form these magma tubes, these lava tubes.
And this lava tube is pretty big. I mean, it's like a kilometer in diameter or something. It's a very large thing, maybe running 45 kilometers. So it's much bigger than lava tubes on Earth as well.
Let's jump to our next space story, Sarah, because this one is super important, very scientific. Now, I'm going to go on a little tangent. I would never admit on the air that my girlfriend at 33 years old still sleeps with a beanie baby stuffy because, of course, she does not. No. And now back to space. Let's talk about this upcoming mission to the ISS, the International Space Station.
One of the astronauts going up is bringing a very special keepsake, a small stuffed rabbit, stuffed animal. What do you make of this? Would you bring a stuffy up to space?
Well, I mean, I think her reasons are solid. So she has a three-year-old daughter and that daughter also has this stuffed rabbit and she's bringing this stuffed bunny up to space so that they can connect, you know, because she's going to be gone what was like eight months or something. And this space bunny can have little adventures that she can send photos and stories to her daughter.
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