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Season 2016 · Episode 35

Self-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination

0.013mSeptember 14, 2016

We’ll soon be capable of building self-replicating robots. This will not only change humanity’s future but reshape the galaxy as we know it.

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Episode 1The True Nature of Matter and Mass
Episode 2When Time Breaks Down
Episode 3The Photon Clock Challenge
Episode 4The Origin of Matter and Time
Episode 5Will Mars or Venus Kill You First?
Episode 6LIGO's First Detection of Gravitational Waves!
Episode 7Planet X Discovered?? + Challenge Winners!
Episode 8Why the Big Bang Definitely Happened
Episode 9What's Wrong With the Big Bang Theory?
Episode 10Cosmic Microwave Background Challenge
Episode 11Why is the Earth Round and the Milky Way Flat?
Episode 12How Cosmic Inflation Flattened the Universe
Episode 13Pulsar Starquakes Make Fast Radio Bursts? + Challenge Winners!
Episode 14We Are Star Stuff
Episode 15Will the Universe Expand Forever?
Episode 16Why the Universe Needs Dark Energy
Episode 17What Does Dark Energy Really Do?
Episode 18Will Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?
Episode 19The Cosmic Conspiracy of Dark Energy Challenge Question
Episode 20Anti-gravity and the True Nature of Dark Energy
Episode 21Is an Ice Age Coming?
Episode 22Is Quantum Tunneling Faster than Light?
Episode 23New Fundamental Particle Discovered?? + Challenge Winners!
Episode 24The Strange Universe of Gravitational Lensing
Episode 25Planck's Constant and The Origin of Quantum Mechanics
Episode 26Nuclear Physics Challenge
Episode 27Juno to Reveal Jupiter's Violent Past
Episode 28The Future of Gravitational Waves
Episode 29The Quantum Experiment that Broke Reality
Episode 30Can We Survive the Destruction of the Earth? ft. Neal Stephenson
Episode 31How the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past
Episode 32Quantum Eraser Lottery Challenge
Episode 33Should We Build a Dyson Sphere?
Episode 34Is There a Fifth Fundamental Force? + Quantum Eraser Answer
Episode 35Self-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination
Episode 36Quantum Entanglement and the Great Bohr-Einstein Debate
Episode 37Life on Europa?
Episode 38Are We Alone? Galactic Civilization Challenge
Episode 39Black Holes from the Dawn of Time
Episode 40The First Humans on Mars
Episode 41The Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse
Episode 42Quantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Challenge Answers
Episode 43Did Dark Energy Just Disappear?
Episode 44Strange Stars
Episode 45Pilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism
Episode 46What Happens at the Event Horizon?
Episode 47Escape The Kugelblitz Challenge
Episode 48Have They Seen Us?