42: The Answer to Almost Everything — Season 1, Episode 89: Will we run out of sand?
Documentary • 30 min • 1 season, 198 episodes • ★ 9.6/10
Episode synopsis
Whether in mobile phones, glass or even in our underwear, sand is everywhere in our lives. Without it, there would be no houses and no roads. According to the UN Environment Programme, each person consumes around 17 kilograms of it every day, and our rising consumption is causing problems: Ecosystems around the world are being destroyed by sand extraction. But could we ever run out of sand?
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
- E1Can we dig our way through the Earth?
- 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?