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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 JoeMerchant on Wednesday March 16 2022, @04:58PM (1 child)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday March 16 2022, @04:58PM (#1229702)

    Everything is overpriced, some of those things have better reasons for that than others.

    Transparency is always the answer. NASA actually leads most of the world in terms of transparency into their fat margins.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 17 2022, @02:08AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 17 2022, @02:08AM (#1229832) Journal

    Everything is overpriced, some of those things have better reasons for that than others.

    Overpriced isn't merely a bitflag you set. As I noted, you can basically take those inflated prices for those testosterone houses and multiply it by another factor of 20 to get NASA prices.

    Transparency is always the answer. NASA actually leads most of the world in terms of transparency into their fat margins.

    Transparency? Here's an example [soylentnews.org] of NASA transparency:

    On the second point:

    • In particular, NASA does not have a comprehensive and accurate estimate that accounts for all Artemis program-related costs. Because NASA has not defined Artemis as a formal program under the Agency's Space Flight Program and Project Management Requirements, an Artemis-wide full life-cycle cost estimate is not required. Instead, NASA's disparate programs and projects individually submit budget estimates through their divisions and directorates to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer.
    • When aggregating all relevant costs across Mission Directorates, we projected NASA will spend $93 billion on the Artemis effort from FY 2012 through FY 2025

    In other words, the official of the linked story was able to identify enough hidden, unreported costs that the cost of the SLS/Orion/Artemis programs almost doubled ($53 billion to $93 billion). Imagine you're building a muscle home and your contractor says he's managing to keep the costs at a million dollars. Well, you've been talking to those subcontractors and well, there's like $750k of costs you have to pay under the contract that the contractor didn't tell you about. That's NASA transparency.