Anonymous asked:
I really really really want to see mission work on North Sentinel Island in my lifetime. Maybe carried out via spying on them long enough with drones disguised as insects to learn their language, and then using further very sturdy drones to communicate with them.
thathopeyetlives answered:
Maybe! Any kind of dealings with the Sentinelese will have to be pretty cautious if we want them to be able to maintain their autonomy at all, though.
No. There is some risk that we don’t fully know yet that is partially mitigated (a chaos, even) by leaving a few isolated groups of humans uncontacted and separate from modern civilization, a risk that probably doesn’t go away until the stage of interplanetary colonization.
A blockade should be established, if necessary, and those attempting to violate it arrested.
The only condition under which they should be contacted is if it is determined that they are otherwise doomed to die out as a tribe.
Those fleeing the island on their own are another matter.