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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(06:36) – Universe expansion

(08:00) – Dark energy

(15:28) – Scientific revolutions

(27:18) – Asteroid hitting Earth

(30:50) – Giant solar flares and the power grid

(37:50) – Elon Musk and space exploration

(42:41) – Exoplanets

(50:03) – Traveling close to the speed of light

(52:13) – Traveling faster than the speed of light

(1:00:39) – Intelligent life in the universe

(1:04:14) – Fermi Paradox

(1:13:52) – Finding alien life would be bad news

(1:18:49) – UFO sightings

(1:31:58) – Universe expansion speed

(1:36:42) – The universe is infinite

(1:40:58) – What happened before the Big Bang?

(1:45:14) – Roger Penrose

(1:48:48) – Nobel Prize for the accelerating universe

(2:10:23) – Supernova

(2:21:47) – The greatest story ever told

(2:25:44) – Richard Feynman

(2:32:37) – Meaning of life