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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: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday March 15 2022, @05:32PM (3 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday March 15 2022, @05:32PM (#1229382) Homepage
    Because responsible documentary makers will research the field enough to be able to come up with way more informed opinions, based on a wide range of competing views, than most people, including those who are entrenched in the field, because of the bias which comes with their entrenchment.

    And Werner Herzog's a responsible guy, he even accepts the consequences of being wrong in his pronouncements - he's even eaten his own shoe after a bet.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @05:58PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @05:58PM (#1229394)

    Near the film's end, the camera crew visits a Brazilian commune whose members believe they are direct descendants of an alien species that originated centuries ago from a planet light-years away. Yet when Rudolph asks this group how Earth's denizens might ever travel to another planet, its members respond with a warning: human biology is in no way designed to withstand millennia of space travel or extreme radiation. Stay on Earth.

    These are his 'experts'.

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday March 15 2022, @09:53PM

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday March 15 2022, @09:53PM (#1229468) Homepage
      Nope, that's called the hasty generalisation fallacy.
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 16 2022, @04:33PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 16 2022, @04:33PM (#1229695)

      No, he made a narrative documentary as an entertainment product for a general audience and this cult provided entertaining narrative reinforcement - "show, don't tell"! This is hardly his dancing chicken [youtube.com] or laughing midget [youtube.com] is it?