Refreshing news

baggygreen · 05-29-08, 06:56 PM

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23782262-2,00.html

Found this this morning while browsing the news, its nice to know that theres still tribes undiscovered out there! makes you wonder what else we're missing out on..

Platapus · 05-29-08, 07:11 PM

I hope we will have the sense to leave them alone.

Letum · 05-29-08, 07:13 PM

It's strange to see another world like that.

Such things really make me think of what it is to be human and makes my modern
sorroundings seam very artificial.

Skybird · 05-29-08, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by baggygreen

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23782262-2,00.html

Found this this morning while browsing the news, its nice to know that theres still tribes undiscovered out there! makes you wonder what else we're missing out on..

Plenty of medically valuable plants, for example. It is estimated that every hour 1-10 botanic species that could show us a combination of substances medical research could benefit from get wiped out by us with us even not knowing that they have been there.

Also: the deep seas below a depth of lets say 3000m. as authors love to put it: we know less about that than we know about the moon.

Letum · 05-29-08, 10:36 PM

Of course, that is just because the moon is so dull.

bookworm_020 · 05-29-08, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

I hope we will have the sense to leave them alone.

Well one of the photos show that they are shooting arrows at the camera man. It shows they have had dealings with the media before.

Skybird · 05-30-08, 03:25 AM

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Originally Posted by bookworm_020

Quote:

Originally Posted by Platapus

I hope we will have the sense to leave them alone.

Well one of the photos show that they are shooting arrows at the camera man. It shows they have had dealings with the media before.

Why? Maybe they saw a helicopter for the first time, and defended their village, thinking it was a giant firefly trying to eat their wives and children, or take their hunting prey. Anywhere else in the jungle, they maybe would have run away. or stayed hidden.

But maybe we could learn something from their way of handling the media.

Stealth Hunter · 05-30-08, 05:20 AM

How curious. These people remind me of lost civilizations from thousands of years ago. It's like Cortez's meeting with the Aztecs. I love how they brandish their spears at the helicopter, perhaps thinking it to either be some sort of bird, or possibly even a god. What secrets might these people hold? How did they come about. It's strange to see such uninformed creatures of another age. They're like lost relics from the past: amazing and strange to us as we are to them.

Konovalov · 05-30-08, 05:24 AM

Don't be so daft guys.

Those pictured are just some of the extras left behind from the filming of the new Indiana Jones film.

StdDev · 05-30-08, 08:43 AM

Isnt there a fairly large "Cargo Cult" tribe living in Pearland Texas?

Letum · 05-30-08, 08:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Platapus

I hope we will have the sense to leave them alone.

If I where in an untouched tribe I think I would want to know about the modern world,
even if I didn't want to become a part of it.

I would certinaly not like to think the rest of the world was keeping me deliberatly ignorant.

STEED · 05-30-08, 09:01 AM

FECK OFF YOU WHITE HONKIES

Letum · 05-30-08, 09:05 AM

/googles "honkies".

Heh! something new every day!

clive bradbury · 05-30-08, 02:53 PM

The bowmen brought that big bird down. They found the shell a bit tough but the insides were lovely...

AVGWarhawk · 05-30-08, 02:59 PM

National Geographic will be climbing up their uncovered butts before long. Next thing you know they will be drinking coke and smoking Marlboro looking for a MP3 player. So much for the life of bliss for these folks.

05-29-08, 06:56 PM	#1
baggygreen Sea Lord Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canberra, ACT, Down Under (really On Top) Posts: 1,880 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	Refreshing news http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23782262-2,00.html Found this this morning while browsing the news, its nice to know that theres still tribes undiscovered out there! makes you wonder what else we're missing out on..

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	I hope we will have the sense to leave them alone. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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Letum Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: York - UK Posts: 6,079 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	It's strange to see another world like that. Such things really make me think of what it is to be human and makes my modern sorroundings seam very artificial. __________________

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Konovalov Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: High Wycombe, Bucks, UK Posts: 2,811 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Don't be so daft guys. Those pictured are just some of the extras left behind from the filming of the new Indiana Jones film. __________________ "In a Christian context, sexuality is traditionally seen as a consequence of the Fall, but for Muslims, it is an anticipation of paradise. So I can say, I think, that I was validly converted to Islam by a teenage French Jewish nudist." Sheikh Abdul-Hakim Murad (Timothy Winter)

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Stealth Hunter Silent Hunter Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Y'ha-Nthlei Posts: 4,262 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	How curious. These people remind me of lost civilizations from thousands of years ago. It's like Cortez's meeting with the Aztecs. I love how they brandish their spears at the helicopter, perhaps thinking it to either be some sort of bird, or possibly even a god. What secrets might these people hold? How did they come about. It's strange to see such uninformed creatures of another age. They're like lost relics from the past: amazing and strange to us as we are to them.

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StdDev Legend of the Sea Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: the Great Wet North Posts: 635 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Isnt there a fairly large "Cargo Cult" tribe living in Pearland Texas?

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clive bradbury Captain Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: stoke-on-trent, UK Posts: 492 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 0	The bowmen brought that big bird down. They found the shell a bit tough but the insides were lovely...

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AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,253 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	National Geographic will be climbing up their uncovered butts before long. Next thing you know they will be drinking coke and smoking Marlboro looking for a MP3 player. So much for the life of bliss for these folks. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road