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Satellites Spot Hidden Villages In Amazon
sciencehabit writes The Amazon is home to perhaps dozens of isolated tribes who make their living far off the grid from the wider society, growing crops and hunting and gathering in the forest. These reclusive peoples are threatened by drug running, illegal logging, and highway construction, even if they dwell in 'protected' reserves in Peru or Brazil; one group, apparently pushed out of its lands, made contact this summer. Now, researchers have a new way of examining their fate without disruptive and frightening flyovers by aircraft. Researchers use high-resolution WorldView or GeoEye satellite images to monitor demographic changes in isolated Amazon tribes. The scientists got location and population estimates for five isolated villages along the Brazil-Peru border from Brazilian government reports and other sources. Then they examined 50-centimeter resolution satellite images taken in 2006, 2012, and 2013 and could spot the peoples' horticultural fields and characteristic pattern of either longhouses or clusters of small houses; these villages could be clearly differentiated from the transient camps of illegal loggers or drug runners.
Do they get free 2 day shipping with Prime?
If even these people can't have any privacy then we're all really screwed.
one group, apparently pushed out of its lands, made contact this summer.
did they make FIRST CONTACT???
Their life cannot be complete without the opportunity to whine about the U2 album that appeared on their iphones.
Imagine how we must look from their perspective. Like gods peering down on them from the heavens with magical devices that grant us powers. Can you imagine if we as a people encountered beings who were just as advanced from us as we are from those tribes. Hell even a mere 100 years of progress would seem miraculous to us to say nothing of eons. Imagine how we would look to someone from 1914.
Trail of Tears.
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and all the fissshes you can eat.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Then imagine their disappointment when they find out how we use this power. :P
"The Amazon is home to perhaps dozens of isolated tribes who make their living far off the grid from the wider society, growing crops and hunting and gathering in the forest." -- HOLY MOLY! I had no idea the company was that big... and I kinda imagined it would be a little more advanced technologically. I mean, how is it I'm streaming episodes of Red Dwarf from them when they don't even have internet?
Anybody using the satellite pix to catch and stop the loggers? Where's the infrared cams?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
You missed Jehovah's Witness.
if christians really believe that complete and utter ignorance of christ, never having an opportunity to learn of him and his dad, means that a person will go to heaven by default, then the best thing christians can do is never go anywhere near these people. by leaving them alone they ensure the gift of eternal life in heaven. also these people dont have to deal with annoying christians preaching at them
Bring them Christianity and civilize them... That's what they need the most.
OK, we found this group of people... moving on.
Chalk it up for +1 diversity, but for God's sake, don't try to visit them and sneeze in there general direction.
If they were unhappy, they would have walked in one direction long enough to "discover" others. Leave them be.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
"The Amazon is home to perhaps dozens of isolated tribes who make their living far off the grid from the wider society, growing crops and hunting and gathering in the forest. These reclusive peoples..."
For an instant, that sounded like the software firm.
amazon rainforest street view
The Christian belief is that without a knowledge of God, a person is judged based on their own conscience, not that they would go to Heaven by default. However, that is beside the point. Christians are commanded to go and make disciples of all nations.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
After all, that's what happened to virtually everybody else on Earth.
Do you ever wonder why you have to work five days a week, until you're 67, and then you die within a few years of retirement?
Who claims to own all the land in your country? When somebody sells a piece of land, how did they claim to own it in the first place?
The people of the rainforest are being forced off their OWN land, where they have lived for tens of thousands of years, to be turned into wage slaves, working in factories. Wake up.
amazonian-tribesman: "guys, GUYS! says here we're OFF-something-called-a-'grid'!"
2nd, 3rd, a-whole-bunch of, amazonian-tribesmen: "..."
OP is referring to the video of the uncontacted tribe, one of which was carrying a firearm?
"In 2006, Sentinelese archers killed two fishermen who were fishing illegally within range of the island. The archers later drove off, with a hail of arrows, the helicopter that was sent to retrieve the bodies."
Sounds like a scene right out of Avatar.
Just leave them alone and enjoy this gem from a distance.
Any others I've missed?
Yes - your Thorazine and Haldol
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I sure as hell hope that they have a democracy, full suffrage and equal rights for all. Otherwise, send in the Apache Helicopters!
Christians sending missionaries to these villages to show them the ways of Christ.
Actually, missionaries are highly unlikely to get a permit to enter regions of the Amazon populated by isolated tribes. They even used this to deny Daniel Everett the opportunity to return to study the Piraha language. (Everett originally visited the Piraha as a missionary, but was "converted" to atheism by his experiences there. His study of the language contradicted various mainstream theories of linguistics, and rather than saying "you're wrong, but feel free to look for evidence -- you won't find any," various authority figures accused him of being a charlatan and obstructed his research. He's been successfully blocked long enough that Portuguese influence has altered the Piraha language to the point where the language features he was studying could easily have been lost, and as well as stopping him proving himself right, it's now impossible to prove him wrong. Bloody academic egos.)
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You motherfuckers want to inflict the metric system on everybody else. What makes these people any different?