Weird world.
May. 30th, 2008 05:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aribLots of news sources have been reporting about a recent overflight of a previously uncontacted tribal group in South America, as shown here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7426794.stm
Apparently they were found as part of a study to determine the effects that illegal logging could have on the rainforest. This discovery has made me consider a few things.
-Is this what any hypothetical aliens think when they fly over the Earth? "Look, an isolated planet full of semi-sentients that hasn't contacted other planets yet. How novel!"
-On a related note, is this their equivalent of a UFO sighting? They probably don't have the concepts, it may well be a dragon/giant flying monster sighting from their perspective.
-What happened (or didn't happen) that made this group remain so isolated, while everyone else has more-or-less become interconnected?
-Lots of news sources say that contact with this group should really be avoided, because of the diseases we carry that they just haven't been exposed to (think Isaac Asimov's Spacers). Is that a permanent state of affairs? What if some catastrophe required evacuating them? WHat if they find us someday? Would we need to rush them into cleanrooms?
Just some thoughts, feel free to chime in.
Apparently they were found as part of a study to determine the effects that illegal logging could have on the rainforest. This discovery has made me consider a few things.
-Is this what any hypothetical aliens think when they fly over the Earth? "Look, an isolated planet full of semi-sentients that hasn't contacted other planets yet. How novel!"
-On a related note, is this their equivalent of a UFO sighting? They probably don't have the concepts, it may well be a dragon/giant flying monster sighting from their perspective.
-What happened (or didn't happen) that made this group remain so isolated, while everyone else has more-or-less become interconnected?
-Lots of news sources say that contact with this group should really be avoided, because of the diseases we carry that they just haven't been exposed to (think Isaac Asimov's Spacers). Is that a permanent state of affairs? What if some catastrophe required evacuating them? WHat if they find us someday? Would we need to rush them into cleanrooms?
Just some thoughts, feel free to chime in.
