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Re: The Forbidden Island

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Post by canvia »

Would there be any chance that in their isolation that different diseases evolved that the rest of the world doesn't have immunity to? It would seem to me that us wiping them out with one of our diseases isn't the only thing we should be worried about.

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Post by b0rsuk »

tobiasu wrote: post #19
dirktheman wrote: post #15

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I think it would freak them out. A metal bird, making strange humming noise, hovering over their heads... A couple of years ago I was driving on the I-95 from Las Vegas to Tonopah. Out of nowhere, a predator drone came up and flew next to our car for a good couple of hundred yards. A strange and somewhat frightening experience, even for someone who knows what drones are. Besides, the thick jungle canopy wouldn't allo…

How about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnR8fDW3Ilo

How about this one ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8pyzOkTiAU Just kidding.

Re: The Forbidden Island

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Post by b0rsuk »

dirktheman wrote: post #15
terhechte wrote: post #11

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You can always fly drones around. Edit: Non-Lethal, Non-Army drones. Just flying cameras to see what's happening there, or how they're living. Even better, really small cameras that look a bit like slow-moving birds.

I think it would freak them out. A metal bird, making strange humming noise, hovering over their heads... A couple of years ago I was driving on the I-95 from Las Vegas to Tonopah. Out of nowhere, a predator drone came up and flew next to our car for a good couple of hundred yards. A strange and somewhat frightening experience, even for someone who knows what drones are. Besides, the thick jungle canopy wouldn't allo…

I think the best way would be really tiny drones that can pass for insects. Then we will be able to observe them without disturbing them.

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Post by freyr »

s_q_b wrote: post #188
rapind wrote: post #144

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Considering they have no marketable skills or education, how could their situation get any better? There are tons of poor people in the world who die from easily preventable diseases that you could help instead if that's your true motivation. They are a self-sufficient people that don't seem to be screwing up the world nearly as much as we are... why would we even assume we're superior? Maybe we're just jealous?

Personally I like refrigeration, modern medicine, transportation, and high technology. Maybe those aren't your thing, but I know if I was born into a society like that, I would spend my life trying to see what was beyond the water. Or die. Because, you know, a lot of them die.

We all die.

Re: The Forbidden Island

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Post by n11 »

huherto wrote: post #177

This is fascinating. What about genetic diversity? With only 1000 people can they keep reproducing without long term effects? I can't believe they have been isolated for over 60,000 years.

I was wondering the same thing. And, I'm curious to how they sensed the tsunami coming and were able to escape to higher ground in time.

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Post by NoPiece »

bennyg wrote: post #143
pilom wrote: post #128

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"I would assume they have a better quality of life than the majority of the planet" I'd agree with you that they probably have a more enjoyable day to day experience, however I also would bet that they have an infant mortality rate that is astronomical even by 3rd world standards. And that they have an average life expectancy which isn't hard to beat in the 3rd world. I'm not saying that these 2 things justify us for…

The United States is 35th in infant mortality ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mor... ) - and the US is 33rd in life expectancy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expec... ). You just said you didn't know their two statistics in those categories, but a hunch may be enough to go in and shake things up for them.

As bad as the US is in those statistics, you'd expect this island to be 5 - 20 times worse looking at the range of third world countries on the list.

Re: The Forbidden Island

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Post by rytis »

precisioncoder wrote: post #137
geuis wrote: post #108

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Answer 1: Yes, stay the fuck away. If Race XYZ has ability to monitor us without us knowing, thus not interfering with us, sure go ahead. Its not like there's much we could to stop them. But the moment they make their existence known, we're fucked. At that moment, we aren't the world-conquering successful species we love and proclaim to be. We're the little tribe living on the little island that's quietly being prote…

Modern medicine, physics, modern housing, sanitation, plumbing, etc, etc. They have a massive amount to gain. You can romanticize their situation, or we can decide to leave them there for other reasons but claiming they have nothing to gain is just plain wrong.

So they survived 65'000 years just fine, but now suddenly we need to "help" them?

I don' think they need our medicine, housing or plumbing.

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