JJ's new hotbed for recruiting

[NickSMU17]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/ ... index.html

[mrydel]

I would almost bet that if you panned in a little closer you would see that they are wearing Nikes.

[Lefty]

And "Patriots 19-0" shirts

[Alaric]

And "Patriots 19-0" shirts

A++

[ThadFilms]

You ever get the feeling that there's a galactic/intergalactic "Survival International" protecting the rights of indigenous people to their planet(s) (Earth, etc.)? You know, folks arguing that we shouldn't be interfered with, but at the same time, big business wants to mine our planet and put us to work in their factories? Plausible.

Thanks NickSMU17 .... you just gave me a great idea for a short story.

[redpony]

Hey, that's the new SMU archery team practicing undercover. They are only a three hour boat ride up the Amazon from Iquitos. Know them well.

GO PONIES!!!

[diamond_tom]

Hey, that's the new SMU archery team practicing undercover. They are only a three hour boat ride up the Amazon from Iquitos. Know them well.

Hopefully that's a women's sport - Title IX and all.

[MrMustang1965]

You ever get the feeling that there's a galactic/intergalactic "Survival International" protecting the rights of indigenous people to their planet(s) (Earth, etc.)? You know, folks arguing that we shouldn't be interfered with, but at the same time, big business wants to mine our planet and put us to work in their factories? Plausible.

Thanks NickSMU17 .... you just gave me a great idea for a short story.

That's the 'Prime Directive' and Starfleet, Thad. It's already been done.

[smu diamond m]

You ever get the feeling that there's a galactic/intergalactic "Survival International" protecting the rights of indigenous people to their planet(s) (Earth, etc.)? You know, folks arguing that we shouldn't be interfered with, but at the same time, big business wants to mine our planet and put us to work in their factories? Plausible.

Thanks NickSMU17 .... you just gave me a great idea for a short story.

There is one, they talked about it in the story...

[mustangklick]

How can a tribe still be using arrows after thousands of years. You would think they would have thought of something by now.... They just aren't trying hard enough

[MrMustang1965]

How can a tribe still be using arrows after thousands of years. You would think they would have thought of something by now.... They just aren't trying hard enough

They've forgotten more about archery than any of us will ever know.

[ThadFilms]

You ever get the feeling that there's a galactic/intergalactic "Survival International" protecting the rights of indigenous people to their planet(s) (Earth, etc.)? You know, folks arguing that we shouldn't be interfered with, but at the same time, big business wants to mine our planet and put us to work in their factories? Plausible.

Thanks NickSMU17 .... you just gave me a great idea for a short story.

That's the 'Prime Directive' and Starfleet, Thad. It's already been done.

Incorrect.

The Prime Directive is a product of Gene Roddenberry's idealized version of the future (and what a beautiful future that is, especially in TNG). The Prime directive assumes that humans, and other sentient beings, have come together and settled there differences and decided to and have, for the most part, succeeded in doing just that.

If some company wants to go in and strip mine the region that these natives live in, there will be (a) government action against it, and (b) this "Survival International" group attempting to block it, for varying reasons. Whereas, the Prime Directive is a fundamental law protecting such things.

What I am talking about is not The Big Chill, i.e. the aftermath of the Costner character's suicide. I'm talking about a story about the Costner character's suicide.

The story, yes, would bare some resemblance on it's face to some sort of "Prime Directive" like struggle, but the similarity would end there. The future I would imagine would be much like our own life today, fractured. Where big companies rule the roost, and big government doesn't always stop them, they aid, compromise, and - rarely - thwart their interests.

Thus leaving little know civil liberties groups to fight the good fights that many of us don't even think about. If this thread dies, how many of us will be thinking about this tribe or this particular civil liberties group in two weeks. Likely none.



So the story would revolve around, not a major issue in this future landscape - where as the Prime Directive is just that, Prime, at the forefront. I would assume utopia for my story. Even if we would all love to live in it.

[ThadFilms]

Addendum:

Not that I am ever going to write said short story (I might), it's just an interesting concept to let your mind dance around.

As a converse to Star Trek, look at Douglas Adams' wickedly funny, sardonic masterpiece, the aptly title (five book) "Hitchhikers Trilogy". It begins with the destruction of our solar system for the creation of a "hyperspace bypass". Though, if I recall correctly, never again do they really even talk about or even use a "hyperspace bypass".


"Arthur, I have something to tell you, and I have to tell you right now at that pub over there."

"Why the pub?"

"Because you are going to need a very stiff drink."

[MrMustang1965]

Oops! It was a 'hoax'!!!! from www.yahoo.com:

Even in an age when cynical sleuths can hyper-analyze stories for truth and accuracy, the occasional hoax still slips through the cracks. Such was the case with a so-called "lost Amazon tribe."

A few months ago, mainstream news outlets (including, ahem, Yahoo!) reported that a photographer had found a lost tribe of warriors near the Brazilian-Peruvian border. Photos of the tribe backed up his claim.

As it turns out, the story is only half true. The men in the photo are members of a tribe, but it certainly ain't "lost." In fact, as the photographer, José Carlos Meirelles, recently explained, authorities have known about this particular tribe since 1910. The photographer and the agency that released the pictures wanted to make it seem like they were members of a lost tribe in order to call attention to the dangers the logging industry may have on the group.

The photographer recently came clean, and news outlets, perhaps embarrassed at having been taken for a ride, have been slow to pick up the story. Now, the word is starting to spread and articles in the Buzz are picking up steam. Expect a lot more brutal truth in the coming days.

[redpony]

Now our new archery team has been discovered. DAMN!

GO PONIES!!