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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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Why Werner Herzog Thinks Human Space Colonization “Will Inevitably Fail”
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @05:33PM
The root cause was Congressional pork. The Shuttle's performance was compromised to ensure that the work went to the 'right' military supply contractors, and then those companies deliberately made it near unmaintainable in order to pad their sole source maintenance contracts. That left NASA with an overpriced, underperforming vehicle that took a year to refurbish after every flight. The exact same mentality (and contractors) then created both Constellation and SLS, with predictably disastrous results in both cases.