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Why Werner Herzog Thinks Human Space Colonization “Will Inevitably Fail”

posted by janrinok on Tuesday March 15 2022, @11:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the doomed-from-the-start? dept.

Freeman writes:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/03/ars-talks-to-werner-herzog-about-space-colonization-its-poetry/

Last Exit: Space is a new documentary on Discovery+ that explores the possibility of humans colonizing planets beyond Earth. Since it is produced and narrated by Werner Herzog (director of Grizzly Man, guest star on The Mandalorian) and written and directed by his son Rudolph, however, it goes in a different direction than your average space documentary. It's weird, beautiful, skeptical, and even a bit funny.

In light of the film's recent streaming launch, father and son Herzog spoke with Ars Technica from their respective homes about the film's otherworldly hopes, pessimistic conclusions, and that one part about space colonists having to drink their own urine.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @02:30PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @02:30PM (#1229322)

    I'd be willing to give him as much cred as a scientist as you give the Big Bang lady as a neuroscientist; yes, she has a degree, but the only application she has done in her field is promoting pseudoscientific supplements. In my opinion, I have not seen anything to suggest that we can establish a self-sustaining colony outside of Earth. Hell, we can't even establish one on Earth. Until you can terraform your destination to be amenable to our lifeforms so that you can live off the land, we'll colonize a place like Mars in the same way that we've colonized Antarctica, which is not at all. Get a Biosphere 3 up and running, and show that it can maintain itself, before even entertaining the idea of colonizing anywhere else.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @04:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @04:53PM (#1229364)

    Maybe Alex Jones can come up with a food supplement to aid our transition to an oxygen-free environment? I'm thinking ozonated water, or similar.