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post #1 of 20
5/30/08 at 4:00pm
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'Uncontacted tribe' sighted in Amazon


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(CNN) -- Researchers have produced aerial photos of jungle dwellers who they say are among the few remaining peoples on Earth who have had no contact with the outside world.

Taken from a small airplane, the photos show men outside thatched communal huts, necks craned upward, pointing bows toward the air in a remote corner of the Amazonian rainforest.

The National Indian Foundation, a government agency in Brazil, published the photos Thursday on its Web site. It tracks "uncontacted tribes" -- indigenous groups that are thought to have had no contact with outsiders -- and seeks to protect them from encroachment.

More than 100 uncontacted tribes remain worldwide, and about half live in the remote reaches of the Amazonian rainforest in Peru or Brazil, near the recently photographed tribe, according to Survival International, a nonprofit group that advocates for the rights of indigenous people.
I love the accompanying (sp?) photos. It's like a time machine tour.
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post #2 of 20
5/30/08 at 4:05pm
The gods must be crazy!
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post #3 of 20
5/30/08 at 4:07pm
It's different! Kill it!

Those poor people. I hope someone removes them from their debilitating circumstances and provides them access to modern clothes, food, medicine, language, and technology. Who will take up this burden?
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post #4 of 20
5/30/08 at 4:30pm
Even if they remain untouched by civilzation, imagine the chaos this one flyover might cause. Will they fear the return of the great bird spirit? Pray for it to come back? See it as a good omen, or a bad one? Oh to be a fly on the wall in that village.
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post #5 of 20
5/30/08 at 4:31pm
At one time I was felt like these tribes should be protected from our more advanced society and left to their on devices. But, the more I think about it, the more I feel that my reasoning behind that was to retain their odd way of life, their aged traditions.

Now, I feel that it's a bad thing to let these ancient cultures not given an chance to experience modern society. The life expectancy and lifespan of their lifestyle is very grim.
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post #6 of 20
5/30/08 at 4:31pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
Even if they remain untouched by civilzation, imagine the chaos this one flyover might cause. Will they fear the return of the great bird spirit? Pray for it to come back? See it as a good omen, or a bad one? Oh to be a fly on the wall in that village.
Please please please please please let someone be slowly cooked alive then eaten to appease the great shiny bird spirit.
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post #7 of 20
5/30/08 at 4:32pm
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Originally Posted by Doc Happenin View Post
The gods must be crazy!
If only the pilot had dropped a coke bottle.
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post #8 of 20
5/30/08 at 4:36pm
How is that "uncontacted"? That fucking pilot has as much regard for the Prime Directive as a randy young Jim Kirk.
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post #9 of 20
5/30/08 at 4:40pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Miller View Post
If only the pilot had dropped a coke bottle.
What if he dropped a dildo?
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post #10 of 20
5/30/08 at 4:41pm
The Prime Directive is for pussies. When Kirk sees a half-naked, dancing green woman, well I pity the Starfleet brass that try to get in his way.
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post #11 of 20
5/30/08 at 5:02pm
"They were sufficiently advanced to make MY space travel, if you know what I mean."
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post #12 of 20
5/31/08 at 1:02am
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Originally Posted by billylove View Post
The life expectancy and lifespan of their lifestyle is very grim.
Best sentence ever? Only the Rumbling Bird Spirit knows for sure.
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post #13 of 20
5/31/08 at 1:04am
They'll have their own facebook pages in a week.
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post #14 of 20
5/31/08 at 1:09am
First question by the tribe: "Did Britney get her kids back? Our satellite dish was eaten by a python a few months ago."
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post #15 of 20
5/31/08 at 5:19am
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Originally Posted by Overlord View Post
It's different! Kill it!

Those poor people. I hope someone removes them from their debilitating circumstances and provides them access to modern clothes, food, medicine, language, and technology. Who will take up this burden?
Surely, this is a job for the White Man!
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post #16 of 20
5/31/08 at 5:46am
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BBC has even better photos. The sixth one (they have seven) shows one of them chucking a spear at the plane!



But he is! He is!
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post #17 of 20
5/31/08 at 7:28am
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post
Surely, this is a job for the White Man!
I sense a classical education in ye.
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post #18 of 20
6/24/08 at 2:13am
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Boo! Hiss! Lame!
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post #19 of 20
6/24/08 at 12:02pm
The initial story from the BBC was that they knew these tribes existed but they were uncontacted. I haven't seen any evidence to the contrary, only that this is not a "new" uncontacted tribe.

(see, for example, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7027254.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4554221.stm)
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post #20 of 20
6/24/08 at 7:52pm
Someone should make a film about this. Is Ruggero Deodato or Umberto Lenzi available?
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