Uncontacted rainforest tribe caught from the air

I wonder...

...what the rainforest people thought about the plane(?) that took the pictures. They must have got scared shitless by the contraption! They'll probably make a demon-, monster- or god-bird out of it that will be talked about for generations (unless they get eventually wiped out or assimilated).

Mines the one made of banana leaves.

...I've got a little message for you

Is it me or do the orange chaps look like umpa-lumpas?

They might be uncontacted, but..

They certainly seemed to have developed the ancient art of making Nikes.

How about

1. Contact uncontacted tribe

2. ???

3. Profit!

Re: I think it's offensive

Well, you kinda have a point, but it's not just about feeling they are cute and keeping their innocence. They could well die of disease if they get exposed to the pathogens of the modern society, against which they don't have any immune defenses. A great many of the dead during the conquest of the Americas succumbed to unwitting biological weapons....

How long d'you reckon....

It'll be before Negroponte tries to shark them some cheap wind-up laptops?

Watch out

Maybe someone should warn them not to aim weapons of any kind at a plane - the Yanks will see these and no doubt claim they are the largest threat to mankind since Osama (because they can't find him) and send an invasion...erm...liberation army down there to stop them!

Re : I wonder

I guess seeing the plane fly over head would be more or less the same as an Alien vessel hovering over London to us. I am pretty sure we all would run for the hills and hide if that happened, so I do not expect the poor villagers to be anywhere near that village now.

Flame as could the company not have looked on Google Earth for the village instead of buzzing it scaring the shit out of the locals with a plane.

I Tend to Agree

...with Mr Coward. It's patronising in the extreme to treat these people like animals in a zoo (as it is animals in a zoo). Who knows how their society is organised? Monstrous human rights abuses could well be part of their daily lives? Why do so many assume that primitive = good? Maybe they don't LIKE dying in childbirth, or dying of simple infected wounds, or being poisoned by unsafe water supplies? Our modern world is hardly perfect, but things were FAR worse 1000 or even 10000 years ago.

Human instinct.

Nice to see their first instinct is to attack something new (firing arrows at the aircraft?) - just like the rest of humanity.

At least it's just not the decadent West that thinks 'Shoot first & ask questions later!'.

@AC

Yeah, let's show up en masse, scare the ever-loving shit out of them, force them into a world they can't possibly live in, kill 90% of them with disease, and bulldoze their lands. I'm sure they'll be very happy not to be condescended to.

Shame, poor buggers

one of them thar primitives is going to use this as an excuse to invent some evil religion.

Shame for the rest of them

yes, I know, the evil is implied with religion..

Uncivilised they may be...

...but they do seem to have mastered the skill of accessorizing. "Honey, that gold belt goes perfectly with your sandals"

Paris, because even this tribe cut off from the rest of the world has probably seen "One night in Paris" like the rest of us.

If they're uncontacted

...what's the mobile phone pouches doing on their belts? Eh? Seem pretty contactable to me.

Mine's the bright red one

so that's where...

... Mr Wonka got his Oompa Loompas (as seen in the original movie.)

@AC (benefits of moderm society)

For us to take these people out of that environment and put them into a 'modern society' would kill them outright (or may as well do so). Its taken 'modern man' well over 1000 years to gain this much technology and assimilate it in to everyday life. You can't just drop that on these people overnight. The governments of these countries need to step up and protect them.

As the other AC said, they'll be freaked out just by an airplane. I can't imagine how much people in regular clothing, no coloration of their skin (ie. body makeup like them) and guns showing up to take them away would freak them out.

Anyone fancy being revered as a god...

Turn up with enough techno wizardry and they'll think your a god - or at least a good replacement for the local witch-doctor...

Our government like playing god; maybe we should send over the cabinet...

Prozac, pollution, hatred and politics...

I quote from above:::

"I think it's offensive ...

for us to deny these people the benefits of modern society, just so we can feel like they're cute, and we're maintaining them in innocence"

I REALLY hope you are taking the ssip - you really think they would be better off in the modern world? Innocence is bliss. Let them be!

Looks more like

a screen capture of the latest Sims - The Sims go native.

You'd think that if you go looking for people lost to civilisation that you'd bring a decent camera.

Paris - because even these people would have heard of her

Offensive?

I think it's offensive you think it's offensive.

What on earth makes you think you have a better life than they do?

Leave them in peace.

surely

the UN should already be there - "helping" the locals.

re: I think it's offensive

I think it's arrogant to assume that "modern society" is something better than what they already have. That line of thinking lead to us maintaining a world wide empire and colonial rule to "bring civilisation and it's benefits to the natives".

I wouldn't inflict modern society on my worst enemy.

Let them develop at their own pace, they may just develop a better civilisation than we have thus far managed. We've ruined too many countries and too many peoples with our ideas of a better world, let's not drag more people down with us.

@AC 12:59 And I think it's offensive that you'd want to drag them...

...into the 21st C that we have so thoughtfully built for our children and theirs to inherit.

Black ensign for our brave^h^h^h^h^hpoisonous new world.

Re: I think it's offensive

What's offensive is the thought that our culture is better than theirs and that we should give them the "benefits of modern society".

Some of those people don't even have the antibodies required to live among the civilized people, a simple sneeze can (and has done in the past) kill an entire village.

Most of them are in great health and don't need any of us to live happily.

screw them

damn hippies, they need a job, a hair cut and an expresso.

Ipods?

Obviously, two of those guys are quite upset at the plane for buzzing them, disrupting their listening to their Ipods.

Dave

Send in Ray Mears

He'll love to find out how the tango tribe of deep dark South America live.

Forgot to turn on the red guy reduction setting?

I think it's pretty obviously the photographer's error. Does anyone else see the clear imprint of a lunar lander in the bottom right corner?

@Offensive

Genius. You appear to have started one of the longest flame threads on the Reg forums so far! I thought it was rather amusing myself. :o) Shame everybody else's irony detectors are still suffering from the power cuts this week!

This picture is a hoax

obviously someone has already visited these allegedly uncontacted primitives and introduced them to the pleasures of the fake tan. Looks like they got two twos.

Shipwrecked

You can see these guys on Channel 4 on Sunday mornings, the orange is just fake tan. They're all harmless really, in fact many of the men wouldn't be able to use a bow and arrow for fear of breaking a nail!

Or were these pictures taken when Jordan was on I'm a Celebrity? Either way, has their celebrity status now improved to W list? They've reached the BBC websites top stories!

Paris because she's probably sh@gged them all!