42: The Answer to Almost Everything (2021)

Original title: 42 - Die Antwort auf fast alles

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.

42: The Answer to Almost Everything

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Can we dig our way through the earth?

  • 1x2

    Could we live on the moon?

  • 1x3

    Should we use lotteries instead of elections?

  • 1x4

    How much does life weigh?

  • 1x5

    Will we move onto the water?

  • 1x6

    Can algorithms make us healthy?

  • 1x7

    What if there were no mucus?

  • 1x8

    How do we solve the nuclear waste puzzle?

  • 1x9

    What if fear didn't exist?

  • 1x10

    What if the ice disappeared?

  • 1x11

    Do we all hear the same thing?

  • 1x12

    Are we too pessimistic?

  • 1x13

    Does the perfect song exist?

  • 1x14

    Are we alone in space?

  • 1x15

    Why do we eat what we eat?

  • 1x16

    What is the secret of light?

  • 1x17

    Can we save the trees?

  • 1x18

    What if dust didn't exist?

  • 1x19

    Geoengineering: earth's last resort

  • 1x20

    Could algae save the planet?

  • 1x21

    Will messenger rna save us from cancer?

  • 1x22

    Will we stop flying?

  • 1x23

    Will we like robots?

  • 1x24

    The purpose of parasites

  • 1x25

    Could we sleep less?

  • 1x26

    Are cryptocurrencies the future?

  • 1x27

    Do we live in a black hole?

  • 1x28

    The power of dreams

  • 1x29

    Where do people migrate to?

  • 1x30

    What do animals talk about?

  • 1x31

    Are we getting dumber?

  • 1x32

    Do computers have biases?

  • 1x33

    How can everyone be fed?

  • 1x34

    Are we doing more drugs?

  • 1x35

    Are we ready for mars?

  • 1x36

    Can we glimpse the afterlife?

  • 1x37

    Could we become immortal?

  • 1x38

    Could we live without agriculture?

  • 1x39

    How dangerous is space weather?

  • 1x40

    Will we travel to mars?

  • 1x41

    Can we create money from nothing?

  • 1x42

    How do we end wars?

  • 1x43

    Is space being stolen from us?

  • 1x44

    What power do thoughts have?

  • 1x45

    Can we trust ourselves?

  • 1x46

    Are we more intelligent in swarms?

  • 1x47

    The search for a universal theory

  • 1x48

    Can we turn crap into gold?

  • 1x49

    Are you psychopathic?

  • 1x50

    How does a wave become rogue?

  • 1x51

    Do we need economic growth?

  • 1x52

    Are we gambling away our lives?

  • 1x53

    Why do we have limits?

  • 1x54

    Where to find perfect energy?

  • 1x55

    What if sharks disappeared?

  • 1x56

    Are animals self-aware?

  • 1x57

    Why do we fall in love?

  • 1x58

    What if nature had a price?

  • 1x59

    Can we copy our blood?

  • 1x60

    Why do we hate?

  • 1x61

    Could we bring back the wooly mammoth?

  • 1x62

    Can seals go to court?

  • 1x63

    Do colors manipulate us?

  • 1x64

    Will there be a new 'human species'?

  • 1x65

    Is there a male fertility crisis?

  • 1x66

    Can cities save the world?

  • 1x67

    When the heavens rain down

  • 1x68

    Do fungi rule us?

  • 1x69

    The a***hole effect

  • 1x70

    How it all ends

  • 1x71

    When will the world end?

  • 1x72

    How to travel through time?

  • 1x73

    Mind reading: a reality?

  • 1x74

    Surviving our polluted planet

  • 1x75

    The chaos of chance

  • 1x76

    Who owns the sea?

  • 1x77

    Do animals appreciate beauty?

  • 1x78

    Will a new wind soon blow?

  • 1x79

    Are we going to disappear beneath the waves?

  • 1x80

    Are we all bisexual?

  • 1x81

    The advent of turbo-evolution

  • 1x82

    Why do we lose our memory?

  • 1x83

    Humanity's true nature

  • 1x84

    Can we live without electricity?

  • 1x85

    What happens when the glaciers disappear?

  • 1x86

    Could we reach the stars?

  • 1x87

    Is lying good for us?

  • 1x88

    Will we one day be cryogenically frozen?

  • 1x89

    Will we run out of sand?

  • 1x90

    What's so funny?

  • 1x91

    The origin of life

  • 1x92

    Does punishment work?

  • 1x93

    What are our imaginations for?

  • 1x94

    Can we trick our genes?

  • 1x95

    Amasia: the supercontinent of the future

  • 1x96

    Do dogs really love us?

  • 1x97

    Do we need corruption?

  • 1x98

    Are animals cleverer than us?

  • 1x99

    Are billionaires a problem?

  • 1x100

    How strongly does our mother tongue shape us?

  • 1x101

    Do we live in a multiverse?

  • 1x102

    Does history repeat itself?

  • 1x103

    Are there too many of us on earth?

  • 1x104

    Is stress good for us?

  • 1x105

    Do disasters make us better?

  • 1x106

    Is the metaverse real?

  • 1x107

    Do we all have a doppelganger?

  • 1x108

    Could we programme evoluton?

  • 1x109

    Is there an upside to climate change?

  • 1x110

    Do we need more utopias?

  • 1x111

    Can we control clouds?

  • 1x112

    Does sugar make us stupid?

  • 1x113

    What if the poles reversed again?

  • 1x114

    What power do smells have?

  • 1x115

    Can we shrink the economy?

  • 1x116

    How do plants live?

  • 1x117

    How to become popular

  • 1x118

    Do we need to have power?

  • 1x119

    Should humans be smaller?

  • 1x120

    Is ai out of control?

  • 1x121

    Are invasive species always a problem?

  • 1x122

    Would we be happier without happiness?

  • 1x123

    Why do we cry?

  • 1x124

    Could sea currents change?

  • 1x125

    Could matriarchy be the solution?

  • 1x126

    Are aliens like us?

  • 1x127

    Is pain necessary?

  • 1x128

    Do animals have better societies?

  • 1x129

    How powerful are maps?

  • 1x130

    Does quantum physics change our reality?

  • 1x131

    Why do we have less sex?

  • 1x132

    Has slavery made us racist?

  • 1x133

    Why is housing so expensive?

  • 1x134

    Can we make friends with our enemies?

  • 1x135

    Can we replace pollination?

  • 1x136

    Are we taking enough risks?

  • 1x137

    Who really were our ancestors?

  • 1x138

    Is a world without violence possible?

  • 1x139

    Can we remember precisely?

  • 1x140

    What holds the universe together?

  • 1x141

    Do we need god?

  • 1x142

    What protests work?

  • 1x143

    How do children function?

  • 1x144

    Will we grieve differently in future?

  • 1x145

    Do we need weapons for peace?

  • 1x146

    What should we actually eat?

  • 1x147

    Are we ready for aliens?

  • 1x148

    How important is our microbiome?

  • 1x149

    Why is wealth so unfairly distributed?

  • 1x150

    What makes us depressed?

  • 1x151

    Does the perfect code exist?

  • 1x152

    Are we ready for world government?

  • 1x153

    Are we wasting period blood?

  • 1x154

    Can we feel time?

  • 1x155

    How does water create life?

  • 1x156

    Are cyborgs the future?

  • 1x157

    Can we save truth?

  • 1x158

    Can we cure addictions?

  • 1x159

    Are we too curious?

  • 1x160

    What did dinosaurs really look like?

  • 1x161

    Can we outwit viruses?

  • 1x162

    Where does madness begin?

  • 1x163

    Should we be bored more often?

  • 1x164

    How powerful is disinformation?

  • 1x165

    Why do civilisations fall?

  • 1x166

    Should we argue more?

  • 1x167

    How mathematic is the universe?

  • 1x168

    Is the world better than we think?

  • 1x169

    How smart are the animals we eat

  • 1x170

    Does failure help us succeed?

  • 1x171

    Was stone-age man dumber than us?

  • 1x172

    The age of fire

  • 1x173

    Why does music move us?

  • 1x174

    Optimisation: is it making us mad?

  • 1x175

    Is a superbug pandemic coming?

  • 1x176

    Can humans hibernate?

  • 1x177

    Does society need alcohol?

  • 1x178

    ...we make free decisions?

  • 1x179

    What was there before the big bang?

  • 1x180

    How powerful are images?

  • 1x181

    How does the female orgasm work?

  • 1x182

    Is space debris dangerous for earth?

  • 1x183

    Can our brains still concentrate?

  • 1x184

    Why do we love horror?

  • 1x185

    Does planet nine really exist?

  • 1x186

    Are we an evolutionary superspecies?

  • 1x187

    Are wasps game changers of evolution?

  • 1x188

    Why do we sing?

  • 1x189

    How monogamous are humans?

  • 1x190

    Why do we love gold?

  • 1x191

    Do emotions control the markets?

  • 1x192

    What if life were mirrored?
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  • 1x193

    Do we need the alpha male?
    2026-03-08

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