Posted on 05/30/2008 3:55:58 PM PDT by marthemaria
“contact between technologically advanced cultures and more primitive cultures invariably turns out bad for the less developed culture. Theyre wiped out by disease, driven off their land, etc. Thats the way its been throughout human history. And if there are alien civilizations out there in the universe, itll probably happen to the human race as a whole if we ever make contact. Left vs Right notwithstanding, I dont see a very good outcome for these people. Probably better for them if they had remained undiscovered.”
Bears repeating! Let them decide what they want. It’s no one else’s business.
And if you’re lucky, you’ll have time to explain what you’re there for before you end up with an arrow through you! ;)
Well, that’s a good point. Anyone who paints themselves red, or orange (must mean something in that tribe) and then tries to shoot down aircraft with an arrow, probably is not the campfire chatting type.
It sounds like something Jimmy Carter should do.
Do you wonder, what they thought of this aircraft? My son and I were talking about this last night. Have they ever seen a plane or chopper fly over? Do they even know there are people in it? I’m assuming they have no idea of machinery or anything mechanical, so what was going through their minds? If you’d never seen anything like a plane before, how you could ever fathom what it was - it must just seem incredible and unearthly to them, with their isolated experience. Obviously they were making threatening gestures with their weapons but you’ve still got to look at it as incredibly brave. I would love to know what their thoughts were that evening.
"Did you make sure to cover up the satellite dish with those bushes?"
Those are pretty healthy lookin’ warriors brandishing those bows, lol. As far as slugs, well...not something I would want to eat but I’m sure they eat more than slugs. And in every culture, everywhere, people have eaten what is available to them. Native people everywhere eat things that we say ‘Ewww!’ to. I don’t fancy haggis but it’s a pretty popular dish in Scotland. I think pork brains are gross but people here eat ‘em with their scrambled eggs. The first man to ever try a lobster or oyster was pretty brave and people probably thought he was crazy. We’re the spoiled ones, with our prepackaged foam trays of meats, far removed from the source.
From all the photos at the Reuters site, it looks like red guys are warriors, orange guys are just guys, and black chicks don’t have to wear makeup at all. Or much else.
I don't think that makes us spoiled. It makes us efficient and fairly healthy. Our life expectancy has gone up almost two decades in the past 100 years. We've been becoming much taller over the past 200 years. Most of that can be attributed to nutrition, and probably the rest to medicine.
I agree those warriors appear to be almost fat, something I wouldn't have expected. There's no way to tell from the photos, but I'd expect them to be fairly short, probably under 5'5".
But whatever they're eating, it seems to be enough. They're surviving, or at least the ones we see are.
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update:
“Uncontacted” Amazon Tribe Actually Known for Decades
National Geographic News | 6-19-2008 | Kelly Hearn
Posted on 06/21/2008 1:17:49 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2034464/posts
“There is a lot of logging going on over on the Peruvianside,” Hill said....
And the truth comes out about this man’s motivation for lying about this situation.
When we attacked the Taliban and the locals met our soldiers they asked why we were there and where we were from. Many had never even heard of the United States.
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