Exit question: What’s the answer?

Meaning- should we honor the isolation in the way there were South Pacific tribes who ended up worshiping the stuff they got from WWII sweeping through their undisturbed societies. Or, should these societies be forced to come into the worldwide community.

My vote is stay away.

Eurasia (Europe and Asia) is oriented in an east west axis domesticated plants and animals can spread across similar ecosystems more easily than in the Americas which are in a North South axis.

Also Eurasia had more domesticable mammals than the Americas. Only large mammals domesticated in the Americas were Llamas and their kin in the Andes. Majority of mammals are not domesticable in any sense of the word and in some case you’d be an insane to even try to domesticate. Zebras come to mind as an example of an utterly undomesticatable mammal.

I’d recommend taking the time to read Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel some of his conclusions are arguable but his facts are pretty much dead on. And the fact that he’s managed to offend a lot of representatives of the Voodoo sciences by even daring to tread in their field makes a great argument in his favor.

And guys that’s warpaint. Plane had buzzed by earlier. Gave the local warriors time to get into full kit and gear. As to the tribe not having contact with western civilization that is an open question. But I’ve got the gut feeling that any contact was bound to have been a nasty mess.

BTW is it just me or is almost every comment here fitting in the left wing stereotypes about conservatives?

Exit question: What’s the answer?

I say we nuke the site from orbit.

Just to be sure.

There is no smoke or fire. Do they have bic lighters?
There are no kids.
Skin colors are way to varied for an isolated tribe.
How are they so certain that they have had no contact with outside world?
It is all so perfectly set up to save the rain forest.
Where are all the people who live in those huge houses?

It does make one wonder anew, though, what it was that sparked the idea of progress and moved some of the world into the present, while other pockets of humanity have remained socially unchanged since the stone age.

You mean like Democrats? They’re still locked into feudalism long after the American revolution supposedly ended it.

They must have seen 300.

Exit question: What’s the answer?

Hope and Change.

Reminds me of the true story of the missionary trying to take a picture of the chief…when he raised the camera the chief got all agitated, began gesturing. The missionary stopped, said to the interpreter that it is alright, he won’t take the chiefs spirit…the interpreter looked at the missionary and said “that is not the problem, he is telling you the lens cap in on”.

right2bright on May 30, 2008 at 5:28 PM

I’m all for great missionary stories, and “Brutchko” is one of the best true life missionary stories there is. However, the one you are telling here is from “Crocidile Dundee.” Unless of course that movie stole the story from a missionary.

Red One and Red Two defend the black widow

Heh. Allah, you crack me up.

innominatus on May 30, 2008 at 11:37 PM

delicate electronics

Sounds personal.

I think one of them is Obama’s uncle.

Rod on May 30, 2008 at 10:59 PM

I think you made a wrong turn somewhere. This is Kinda Funny Lane. You’re looking Kinda Creepy Avenue.

No Sh&t!!

Thank you AP.

Hey, what’s that?

I don’t know. Let’s kill it.

Rednecks in the mist.

- The Cat

Algor poops?!

kcd on May 30, 2008 at 5:01 PM

Yeah he do, but he don’t think it stink.

- The Cat