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42: The Answer to Almost Everything

42: The Answer to Almost Everything

9.6 IMDb tt15415042 2021 Documentary

What would we be without mucus? Can we live on water? How much does life weigh? Finding out the answers is the aim of ARTE's new science show. In a nod to Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", where the figure 42 is the ultimate answer to all questions, 42 tries to provide the answers.

Episodes

1
Can we dig our way through the Earth? 27m
2
Could We Live on the Moon? 24m
3 Playing
Should we use lotteries instead of elections? 26m
4
How Much Does Life Weigh? 24m
5
Will we move onto the water? 21m
6
Can Algorithms Make Us Healthy? 24m
7
What if there were no mucus? 22m
8
How do we solve the nuclear waste puzzle? 30m
9
What if Fear Didn't Exist? 25m
10
What if the ice disappeared? 25m
11
Do We All hear the Same Thing? 23m
12
Are we too pessimistic? 25m
13
Does the Perfect Song Exist? 20m
14
Are we alone in space? 32m
15
Why Do We Eat What We Eat? 26m
16
What is the secret of light? 27m
17
Can we save the trees? 25m
18
What if dust didn't exist? 25m
19
Geoengineering: Earth's Last Resort 30m
20
Could Algae Save the Planet? 26m
21
Will Messenger RNA Save Us From Cancer? 24m
22
Will We Stop Flying? 25m
23
Will We Like Robots? 25m
24
The Purpose of Parasites 27m
25
Could We Sleep Less? 26m
26
Are Cryptocurrencies the Future? 29m
27
Do We Live in a Black Hole? 28m
28
The Power of Dreams 26m
29
Where do people migrate to? 27m
30
What Do Animals Talk About? 27m
31
Are we getting dumber? 29m
32
Do Computers Have Biases? 27m
33
How can everyone be fed? 28m
34
Are We Doing More Drugs? 28m
35
Are We Ready for Mars? 28m
36
Can we glimpse the afterlife? 27m
37
Could we become immortal? 30m
38
Could We Live Without Agriculture? 26m
39
How dangerous is space weather? 30m
40
Will we travel to Mars? 21m
41
Can We Create Money from Nothing? 30m
42
How do we end wars? 30m
43
Is Space Being Stolen From Us? 30m
44
What Power Do Thoughts Have? 27m
45
Can We Trust Ourselves? 30m
46
Are we more intelligent in swarms? 25m
47
The Search for a Universal Theory 28m
48
Can we turn crap into gold? 23m
49
Are You Psychopathic? 25m
50
How does a wave become rogue? 26m
51
Do We Need Economic Growth? 30m
52
Are we gambling away our lives? 25m
53
Why do we have limits? 28m
54
Where to Find Perfect Energy? 26m
55
What if sharks disappeared? 25m
56
Are Animals Self-Aware? 29m
57
Why do We Fall in Love? 23m
58
What if nature had a price? 25m
59
Can we copy our blood? 21m
60
Why do we hate? 21m
61
Could We Bring Back the Wooly Mammoth? 25m
62
Can seals go to court? 25m
63
Do colors manipulate us? 30m
64
Will there be a new 'human species'? 25m
65
Is There a Male Fertility Crisis? 25m
66
Can Cities Save the World? 29m
67
When the Heavens Rain Down 30m
68
Do Fungi Rule Us? 30m
69
The A***hole Effect
70
How It All Ends
71
When Will the World End? 27m
72
How to Travel Through Time?
73
Mind Reading: A Reality?
74
Surviving Our Polluted Planet 28m
75
The Chaos of Chance 28m
76
Who Owns the Sea? 28m
77
Do Animals Appreciate Beauty? 30m
78
Will a new wind soon blow? 30m
79
Are we going to disappear beneath the waves? 30m
80
Are We All Bisexual? 30m
81
The Advent of Turbo-Evolution 25m
82
Why do we lose our memory? 30m
83
Humanity's True Nature 24m
84
Can We Live Without Electricity? 26m
85
What Happens When the Glaciers Disappear? 25m
86
Could We Reach the Stars? 28m
87
Is Lying Good For Us? 30m
88
Will we one day be cryogenically frozen? 29m
89
Will we run out of sand? 30m
90
What's So Funny? 27m
91
The Origin of Life 30m
92
Does Punishment Work? 30m
93
What Are Our Imaginations For? 30m
94
Can We Trick Our Genes? 30m
95
Amasia: The Supercontinent of the Future 30m
96
Do Dogs Really Love Us? 27m
97
Do We Need Corruption? 25m
98
Are Animals Cleverer than Us? 25m
99
Are Billionaires a Problem? 27m
100
How strongly does our mother tongue shape us? 27m
101
Do We Live in a Multiverse? 29m
102
Does History Repeat Itself? 29m
103
Are there too many of us on Earth? 26m
104
Is stress good for us? 30m
105
Do Disasters Make Us Better? 26m
106
Is the Metaverse Real? 29m
107
Do We All Have a Doppelganger? 28m
108
Could We Programme Evoluton? 30m
109
Is There an Upside to Climate Change? 27m
110
Do We Need More Utopias? 26m
111
Can we control clouds? 28m
112
Does Sugar Make Us Stupid? 28m
113
What if the poles reversed again? 29m
114
What power do smells have? 29m
115
Can We Shrink the Economy? 25m
116
How Do Plants Live? 28m
117
How to Become Popular 25m
118
Do We Need to Have Power? 30m
119
Should Humans Be Smaller? 26m
120
Is AI Out of Control? 30m
121
Are Invasive Species Always a Problem? 25m
122
Would We Be Happier Without Happiness? 27m
123
Why Do We Cry? 29m
124
Could Sea Currents Change? 27m
125
Could Matriarchy Be the Solution? 28m
126
Are Aliens Like Us? 30m
127
Is Pain Necessary? 27m
128
Do Animals Have Better Societies? 28m
129
How Powerful are Maps? 30m
130
Does Quantum Physics Change Our Reality? 30m
131
Why Do We Have Less Sex? 29m
132
Has Slavery Made Us Racist? 28m
133
Why Is Housing So Expensive? 30m
134
Can We Make Friends with Our Enemies? 29m
135
Can We Replace Pollination? 30m
136
Are We Taking Enough Risks? 28m
137
Who Really Were Our Ancestors? 29m
138
Is a World Without Violence Possible? 29m
139
Can We Remember Precisely? 29m
140
What Holds the Universe Together? 30m
141
Do We Need God? 26m
142
What Protests Work? 31m
143
How do Children Function? 27m
144
Will We Grieve Differently in Future? 30m
145
Do We Need Weapons for Peace? 30m
146
What Should We Actually Eat? 25m
147
Are We Ready for Aliens? 28m
148
How Important is Our Microbiome? 26m
149
Why Is Wealth So Unfairly Distributed? 28m
150
What Makes Us Depressed? 26m
151
Does the Perfect Code Exist? 29m
152
Are We Ready for World Government? 29m
153
Are We Wasting Period Blood? 29m
154
Can We Feel Time? 26m
155
How Does Water Create Life? 28m
156
Are Cyborgs the Future? 30m
157
Can We Save Truth? 30m
158
Can We Cure Addictions? 28m
159
Are We Too Curious? 28m
160
What Did Dinosaurs Really Look Like? 28m
161
Can We Outwit Viruses? 29m
162
Where Does Madness Begin? 28m
163
Should We Be Bored More Often? 30m
164
How Powerful is Disinformation? 30m
165
Why Do Civilisations Fall? 30m
166
Should We Argue More? 28m
167
How Mathematic is the Universe? 30m
168
Is The World Better Than We Think? 30m
169
How Smart Are the Animals We Eat 28m
170
Does Failure Help Us Succeed? 27m
171
Was Stone-Age Man Dumber Than Us? 29m
172
The Age of Fire 29m
173
Why Does Music Move Us? 30m
174
Optimisation: Is It Making Us Mad? 28m
175
Is a Superbug Pandemic Coming? 26m
176
Can Humans Hibernate? 25m
177
Does Society Need Alcohol? 30m
178
...We Make Free Decisions? 28m
179
What was there before the Big Bang? 27m
180
How Powerful Are Images? 30m
181
How Does the Female Orgasm Work? 30m
182
Is Space Debris Dangerous for Earth? 30m
183
Can Our Brains Still Concentrate? 30m
184
Why Do We Love Horror? 30m
185
Does Planet Nine Really Exist? 30m
186
Are We An Evolutionary Superspecies? 29m
187
Are Wasps Game Changers of Evolution? 29m
188
Why do we sing? 29m
189
How monogamous are humans? 29m
190
Why Do We Love Gold? 30m
191
Do Emotions Control the Markets? 30m
192
What if life were mirrored? 30m
193
Do we need the alpha male? 30m
194
Black Holes: A Future Energy Source? 29m
195
Is Brain Washing Possible? 24m
196
Why Are We So Competitive? 27m
197
Do We Need Siblings? 27m
198
Has Globalisation Failed? 28m
199
How does trash change the world? 29m
200
Is vacation really relaxing? 28m
201
Can we change? 24m
202
Is there another Earth in the universe? 26m
203
Can AI Feel Us? 26m
204
Does a Trauma Lie Dormant in Everyone? 28m
205
What Lies Behind UFOs? 28m
206
Can states go into debt indefinitely? 27m
207
Does scrolling make teens stupid? 29m
208
Can We Live Without Work? 28m
209
Is there a female fertility crisis? 25m
210
Is Loneliness Contagious? 22m
211
How Do You Become a Genius? 30m
212
Can We Stop Mass Extinction? 26m
213
Can We Control Our Hormones? 27m
214
Episode 214 29m
215
Episode 215 25m
216
Episode 216 29m