• DharmaCurious@lemmy.world
      444·
      1 year ago

      Sometimes I wonder if they’re the last sane people on the planet. Then I remember we have antibiotics, and my mom has a power wheelchair, and I wonder if there can’t be some middle ground.

    • atmur@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Yep. From the North Sentinel Island wikipedia page:

      The islanders have been observed shooting arrows at boats, as well as at **low-flying helicopters. **

      If they’re shooting at a helicopter, I don’t think they’ll think about a bunch of drones any differently.

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      92·
      1 year ago

      At this point I’m getting concerned with the amount of climate change we’ve got going on if they may be forced to relocate in the not too distant future

        • Comment105@lemm.ee
          5·
          1 year ago

          The highlands of scandinavia should be safer than most and might suit them, with rømmegrøt and hallingdans on Hardangervidda

        • Lifted_lowered@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Pacific Northwest is probably okay that’s why we are trying to build dual power to replace the government when it collapses and fight the Nazis who want to do the same

            • Lifted_lowered@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Do you live here? Probably okay means survivable, literally over a billion people will die if they can’t move from the unsurvivable parts

              • RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works
                13·
                1 year ago

                I don’t need to live in a place to know that heat domes, droughts, and rampant wildfires do not describe a place that’s “probably survivable.” You will not be able to live there 15-20 years from now.

                • Lifted_lowered@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  I both live there and am planning to survive, and keep as many people alive with me as I can, have fun with whatever you’re doing buddy

  • nxfsi@lemmy.world
    251·
    1 year ago

    You gotta go all the way and also get a few LRAD devices to project the voice of God.

      • Rambi@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        That’s not necessarily true. They may speak the same language, or a very similar language as/to a tribe nearby that is contacted.

      • Wage_slave@lemmy.ml
        513·
        1 year ago

        Program an AI to detect and roughly learn the language.

        Really put the matrix to the test. Can AI effectively lead the most basic “civilization” left on the planet and then watch elon fuck it up.

        • Vuraniute@thelemmy.club
          82·
          1 year ago

          ai can’t translate languages while being given JUST phrases in the target language. It needs phrases in the target language AND English translations

          • illusoryMechanist@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            If you had hidden cameras, you could gather data on how the language is being used in various scenarios. That might be enough for an ai to use to “learn” the language

          • Rambi@lemm.ee
            1·
            1 year ago

            Obviously I understand that training a neural network is necessary, but AI has been used in some capacity to translate previously indecipherable languages.

        • LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.mlEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          This sounds like the sort of fucked up thing someone could write a SF novel about. Imagine thinking a test for AI is worth messing with innocent people’s lives.

    • Gork@lemm.ee
      5·
      1 year ago

      They’ve even constructed fake airfields and hand carved wooden headphones to simulate air traffic control. Wild.

  • AyyLMAO@lemmy.ml
    101·
    1 year ago

    Or do it to a developed country that still believes in religious myths - then you get the infamous Project Blue Book!

      • AyyLMAO@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 year ago

        Project Blue Book was a US military project for studying UFOs in the 50s and 60s. They collected reports, mostly. In UFO lore this part of the program was a cover, and in reality Blue Book was a plan to UFO-inspired projections into the sky (or other technologies up to and including reverse-engineered UFOs) in order to fake an alien invasion.

        I believe that - unrelated to Project Blue Book - there are some declassified and/or leaked docs that show US agencies (mostly Intel community iirc although the Air Force is working on somewhat related tech [full spectrum, reportedly plasma-based]) have brainstormed essentially the same idea for other use cases, sometimes using religious imagery instead of UFOs based on the culture of the targets. I haven’t seen anything that officially indicates Blue Book had anything to do with a fake invasion for the purposes of domestic manipulation. It’s a powerful idea, though, they helps illustrate how growing power imbalances can be exploited in contemporary times. Some rich kids from Houston could buy drones and jump across the border to cause havoc among rural farmers in Mexico and go viral among bigots, if they could maintain their attention long enough to plan it.