42: The Answer to Almost Everything — Season 1, Episode 1: Can we dig our way through the Earth?
Documentary • 27 min • 1 season, 198 episodes • ★ 9.6/10
Episode synopsis
This report explores the challenges and insights gained from deep drilling into the Earth. Researchers from Germany, France, and Italy emphasize the technical complexity and costs of these undertakings. The drill cores, made of rock or ice, serve as archives of Earth's history and enable the study of phenomena such as climate change.
About 42: The Answer to Almost Everything
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.
More episodes from Season 1
- E2Could We Live on the Moon?
- E3Should we use lotteries instead of elections?
- E4How Much Does Life Weigh?
- E5Will we move onto the water?
- E6Can Algorithms Make Us Healthy?
- E7What if there were no mucus?
- E8How do we solve the nuclear waste puzzle?
- E9What if Fear Didn't Exist?
- E10What if the ice disappeared?
- E11Do We All hear the Same Thing?
- E12Are we too pessimistic?
- E13Does the Perfect Song Exist?