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Old 05-30-2008, 11:52 AM   #49
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...I wonder what the government in Brazil does to protect them from contact...
It's called "the Amazon".

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You would think that by now, some logger or natural resource tycoon would have gone there and swindled the land away from them. If you went there in a helicoptor armed with a few modern deviced, you would probably be a god to them.
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They must have had some contact with other tribes or missionaries, and know about us that way.
I don't think that some of you fully comprehend how truly vast the Amazon basin is. Picture the entire continental United States, but with only a handful of large cities and passable roads. Now picture it mostly covered in an incredibly dense forest canopy, and ringed by some of the tallest mountains in the world.
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