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It's a shame that any significant contact would wipe the Sentinelese out. Even a common cold infection would be the end of them. If we wanted to learn anything
by redsummer 10y ago
It's a shame that any significant contact would wipe the Sentinelese out. Even a common cold infection would be the end of them.
If we wanted to learn anything about the Sentinelese, then perhaps we could use well-camouflaged camera traps, and other electronic eavesdropping devices. The moral considerations are difficult - it's a privacy breach, but the information would also be valuable not only to their descendants (should contact be made), but also to science generally. I think I would be happy if my Viking ancestors had been filmed 1000 years ago.
- blisterpeanuts 10y agoThe trick is to install the devices. It's their island and they probably know every inch of it. How to land on the beach, sneak around and plant surveillance devices (that ideally are solar powered and broadcast their data to some offshore station), and get off undetected? And hope the devices aren't discovered and tossed into the ocean? Also, the equipment would need to be totally sterile. Mighty though our civilization is, we lack the technology to spy on an isolated Stone Age tribe like this. Rather humbling.
- Klathmon 10y agoPersonally I don't think we lack the technology at all, just the motivation.