Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe
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Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe
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#2Watching this clip was one of the worst Flash video experiences I have ever had. Ridiculously laggy.
On another note, watching this video was also one of the most humbling experiences I have ever had.
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#3"If illegal loggers or miners contact these people, they won't shoot images... They'll shoot guns."
Very few realize that there's more to protect in the Rainforest than trees.
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#4Man charged with the task of protecting indigenous people from intruders flies overhead in a plane named after the Cherokee indian tribe.
Insignificant in the great scope of things, but I smirked a little.
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#5I wonder what kind of disturbance just the helicopter (or whatever method was used to capture the footage) caused on the tribe.
Obviously the tribe was aware of it, but if they've never been contacted, would they be able to even fathom what such a thing is? I'm genuinely curious because I'm also genuinely ignorant on how "uncontacted" tribes like that are and what their civilization is like.
Could anyone enlighten me? It seems like such a fascinating area of study.
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#6Did this shatter anyone else's perception of how well-connected we are, as a species?
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#7The idea of uncontacted tribes - still in existence - is awesome. ...but it's a little scary too to consider the famous Arthur C. Clarke quote "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Sure, these tribes may not have been contacted, but what mythologies have evolved to explain the strange, huge bird in the sky that circles around them from time to time?
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#8I wonder what kind of disturbance just the helicopter (or whatever method was used to capture the footage) caused on the tribe. Obviously the tribe was aware of it, but if they've never been contacted, would they be able to even fathom what such a thing is? I'm genuinely curious because I'm also genuinely ignorant on how "uncontacted" tribes like that are and what their civilization is like. Could anyone enlighten me…
I assume you're hinting at the theory regarding the Native Americans not being able to comprehend Columbus's ships.
It would definitely be an interesting research study, though getting the paperwork filed might be a bit of a challenge :-)
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#9You know that Golden Rule?" Not the one that VCs quote, but the one that goes "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you?"
We should think about that when we choose how to deal with uncontacted tribes. It may be that one day another intelligence will need to decide how to deal with us, and on that day I hope we can say, "Yes, we used to have a habit of massacring technologically inferior peoples we encountered, but we grew up a little and we don't do that any more. Then we used to keep them alive but destroy their culture and identity while mouthing platitudes about how we were helping them, but we grew up a little and we don't do that any more either."
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#10http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/01/5965571-newl...
This has better photos. According to NBC report in 2008, an agency has been aware of the tribe and have been tracking (and not contacting) them since 1910.