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Fascinating story, as well as the wikipedia article about uncontacted peoples. I really appreciate the Indian government for the exclusion zone, as contact with
by dirktheman 13y ago
Fascinating story, as well as the wikipedia article about uncontacted peoples. I really appreciate the Indian government for the exclusion zone, as contact with the rest of the world will probably wipe them away.
From a anthropological standpoint, this is a nice paradox. I'm sure anthropologists would LOVE to study an uncontacted tribe. Particularly this tribe, as they appear to be of African descent yet are living in the middle of the Indian ocean. Unfortunately, there is no way of studying these people without, well, 'contaminating' them.
- terhechte 13y agoYou 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.
- JoshGlazebrook 13y agoSomehow I think drones wouldn't do well in the dense jungle.
- ekianjo 13y agoMaybe quadrotors, then.
- dirktheman 13y agoI 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 allow drones to get a good look anyway. We could launch crawling cameras, disguised as forest creatures, but the risk of getting exposed isn't worth the potential damage to the tribe, IMHO. I think the best thing to do is to just leave them alone.
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- StavrosK 13y agoHow long do you think it'll be until drone hunting is a widespread sport? Although, the only place with enough hunting rifles is the US, and it's probably not going to be popular there.
- tobiasu 13y agoHow about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnR8fDW3Ilo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnR8fDW3Ilo
- b0rsuk 13y agoHow about this one ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8pyzOkTiAU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8pyzOkTiAU Just kidding.
- finnw 13y agoWhy would it freak them out any more than the helicopters which they have seen before?
- kaybe 13y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLErPqqCC54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLErPqqCC54 They look pretty freaked out to me. Their gazes are out of this world, very intense.
- sandGorgon 13y agoNo you cannot. Not in the Andaman Islands. These islands are the base for the Indian Tri-Services Command [1] and rumor has it, for the Indian Nuclear ICBM command. In addition there are more rumors of serious electronic warfare going on there against the Chinese listening posts on Coco Island. No way are there going to be drones around Andamans anytime soon. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andaman_and_Nicobar_Command http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andaman_and_Nicobar_Command
- workbench 13y agoThink by drones they meant a quadcopter camera
- hingisundhorsa 13y agoHow long do we think this Indian protection of this island will last? The current Indian government, who Indian colleagues tell me is led by a mafia related Italian family, is one of the most corrupt in the world. It is only a matter of time before whichever intelligent anthropologist in the bureaucracy/judicary is currently protecting them falls by the wayside.
- eshvk 13y agoI am curious. What is the purpose of your comment? > How long do we think this Indian protection of this island will last? Is this a rhetorical question? A call to arms so that someone "more responsible" takes over the island and helps protect the "noble savage"? Or did you want an actual response? > mafia related Italian family Did you mean the Italian mafia? Because the only references to such a thing that I can find are from what look like conspiracy stories. Alternatively, was the fact they were "Italian" supposed to count against them?
- cubancigar11 13y agoI suppose what he/she means is that they are running it like a Mafia. 'was the fact they were "Italian" supposed to count against them?' Shouldn't it? Specially in an article where uncontacted people, literally, kill people to avoid being contacted?
- eshvk 13y ago> Shouldn't it? Specially in an article where uncontacted people, literally, kill people to avoid being contacted? What now? Are you trying to say that someone being of Italian ethnicity makes them more ready to contact other people or what?
- cubancigar11 13y agoIf you mean to say that being Italian makes them more ready to look down on others, then of course YES. Euro-style nationalism and its other part known as Christianity are based upon the very idea of us-vs-them where 'we' are superior and have moral obligation to 'help' others.