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Season 25 Episode 15 - Are we alone in the universe?
7.4 ?
2002
Documentary
Astronomer Casper Farret Jentink works deep in the forests above Geneva on one of the biggest questions humanity has ever asked itself: are we alone in the universe? We are born alone, we die alone, and in between we try to understand what it means to be there at all. In a workshop, half-observatory, half science fiction decor, astronomer Casper Farret Jentink builds instruments with Swiss precision that can accurately measure light from distant stars to five silicon atoms, in search of a second Earth.
Episodes in Season 25
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2
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3
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19 min
4
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5
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6
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7
The enshittification of the internet
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8
The murder of capitalism
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9
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10
Get rid of the diploma arrogance
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11
Consultant in power
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12
Why reality does not exist
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13
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14
The dark site of the energy transition
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15
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