Topic: Previously Unknown Amazon Basin Tribe Spotted  (Read 1998 times)

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Offline Dracho

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Previously Unknown Amazon Basin Tribe Spotted
« on: May 30, 2008, 02:42:41 pm »
I thought this was kind of cool.. Landing.. maybe not so cool.. judging by their body language..

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,360361,00.html

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Re: Previously Unknown Amazon Basin Tribe Spotted
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2008, 05:24:55 pm »
Why not land?  I'm sure they'd love to have the research team for dinner.   ;)
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Re: Previously Unknown Amazon Basin Tribe Spotted
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2008, 06:50:45 pm »
I have never seen more imgboard fuel ever...in the last 2 weeks.

Taking bets on how long it takes for someone to caption this and post it somewhere.

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Re: Previously Unknown Amazon Basin Tribe Spotted
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2008, 08:43:59 pm »
And to counteract the right wing spin here's a link to an article on the Huffington post that links to reports from the BBC and the Guardian:


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/30/uncontacted-tribes-discov_n_104290.html


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Re: Previously Unknown Amazon Basin Tribe Spotted
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2008, 09:01:01 pm »
 ::)

There were actually more environmental facts in the Fox piece.  Weird huh?  Although it's just a reprint of an AP aticle, which is probably the source article for all the stories.
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