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Werner Herzog on chicken is the all time best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhMo4WlBmGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhMo4WlBmGM

Rendello 3y ago
"You can only get some French out of me with a gun pointed at my head" a few seconds later "It actually happened to me when I was taken prisoner in Africa …" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pY-0JfEdLY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pY-0JfEdLY
- throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
  Apparently he's been shot at multiple times
- imbnwa 3y ago
  "... I regret it, I shouldn't have done it"
bookaway 3y ago
There's something to be said for Herzog's intuition that his words may outlast his films. If you haven't read it yet, read A Guide For the Perplexed, which is basically him talking about stuff (mostly films) in his own words. But the films become catalysts for his random musings, he can't help but dish out great throwaway lines about the wonders and meaning of existence no matter what he talks about. It's one of my favorite books on this side of the century. [0] https://archive.org/details/wernerherzogguid0000herz https://archive.org/details/wernerherzogguid0000herz
sph 3y ago
What frightens me the most is that chicken and birds in general are literal dinosaurs, with millions of years of evolutions compared to sauropods. Imagine what life on Earth might have been with massive predators with claws and teeth, with the intelligence of a prehistoric, unintelligent chicken. Somehow I doubt T-Rexes had the intelligence of a crow.
- lost_tourist 3y ago
  It's likely that not all dinosaurs were chicken level intelligence and were quite a bit smarter, why couldn't they have become (or been) as intelligent as modern corvids?
- adolph 3y ago
  > Somehow I doubt T-Rexes had the intelligence of a crow. What would lead you to a conclusion one way or another? The Tyrannosaurus seems to be well evolved to a similar hunt/scavenge lifestyle to crows. They likely had a large set of sensory input to process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus

Rendello 3y ago

"You can only get some French out of me with a gun pointed at my head" a few seconds later "It actually happened to me when I was taken prisoner in Africa …" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pY-0JfEdLY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pY-0JfEdLY

throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Apparently he's been shot at multiple times
imbnwa 3y ago
"... I regret it, I shouldn't have done it"

bookaway 3y ago

There's something to be said for Herzog's intuition that his words may outlast his films. If you haven't read it yet, read A Guide For the Perplexed, which is basically him talking about stuff (mostly films) in his own words. But the films become catalysts for his random musings, he can't help but dish out great throwaway lines about the wonders and meaning of existence no matter what he talks about. It's one of my favorite books on this side of the century. [0] https://archive.org/details/wernerherzogguid0000herz https://archive.org/details/wernerherzogguid0000herz

sph 3y ago

What frightens me the most is that chicken and birds in general are literal dinosaurs, with millions of years of evolutions compared to sauropods. Imagine what life on Earth might have been with massive predators with claws and teeth, with the intelligence of a prehistoric, unintelligent chicken. Somehow I doubt T-Rexes had the intelligence of a crow.

lost_tourist 3y ago
It's likely that not all dinosaurs were chicken level intelligence and were quite a bit smarter, why couldn't they have become (or been) as intelligent as modern corvids?
adolph 3y ago
> Somehow I doubt T-Rexes had the intelligence of a crow. What would lead you to a conclusion one way or another? The Tyrannosaurus seems to be well evolved to a similar hunt/scavenge lifestyle to crows. They likely had a large set of sensory input to process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus