what a fucking pessimist. no, "we" can't. doesn't mean that others won't be able to. and probably already have.

this guy pushed a boat over a mountain for cinematic effect. if he says it can't be done, it can't be done.

thanks, jon may. because werner herzog is a theoretical physicist, a rocket scientist, propulsion expert, and high school basketball coach all rolled into one! he slices, dices, and points a camera at shit!
please. like cave people could imagine a calculator.

i don't think jbg is getting jon may's humor.

werner herzog eats pissants like you for dinner, jbg. if werner herzog wanted to dh for the red sox papi would gladly sit down because he knows herzog has papi's power and clutchness but isn't troubled by the overshift. if werner herzog decided he would dance ballet, then he'd be the best fucking ballet dancer ever, with more grace and charisma than anybody you could name. If werner herzog drove a bus, you better believe he'd announce stops clearly, pull up right to the curb, run on time every time, and even give out-of-towners useful advice.

there is only one thing that werner herzog CAN'T do, and that is to win the love of klaus kinski, because kinski escaped.

Did you not name a specific balletoman because you couldn't spell Baryshnikov?

maybe i did. maybe i did. also, it's debatable whether baryshnikov is the best balletoman

Don't get me started!

*sigh*

there's a lot i don't get about you fucking nerds.

The film makes a convicing case for why we're not going to get off the planet. Wait till you hear the numbers, then judge. His ultimate point is that we can't trash Earth just thinking "Oh well, we'll go somewhere else and leave it behind." That's the point of the movie.

Sure we can, we'll just need a lot of time. In a thousand years, we'll be able to leave if we want.

i don't see how anyone can make a case for "why we're not going to get off the planet," let alone werner herzog. first, we've already gotten off the planet, the question is how to stay off of it. and as for getting further away, it's ludicrous to think that we've made the ultimate and final strides in space travel after about, oh, 40 years of trying.

anyway, if the environmental point is his goal, whatever. it seems silly to go out of your way to say "we can't leave" if your point is just "we shouldn't destroy it."

or rather "we shouldn't make it inhospitable to us," as the idea of men destroying the planet really is laughable.

We could totally destroy the planet if we wanted to, have some faith jbg. We just don't have the motivation yet, but don't push me. It would involve atom bombs and volcanos.

And maybe some thetans.

Or maybe it would involve creating a black hole by mistake in a physics laboratory.

or by renegade robots setting up a device to slowly increase the planet's radiation over time (anybody? anybody? new yorker in hollywood?)

snakes on an atom bomb.

Jon May's funny.