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rson to take the pictures, but they got the pictures remotely. And how wild is it that there's a tribe that doesn't know there are things like computers and phones and airplanes? Just think about that. So you're this tribe in Brazil. You've never seen any civilization outside of your little tribe. They're all just running around naked with sticks and bows and arrows, and you see an airplane fly o…

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theories that the drones are really UFOs and it might be from another planet, or maybe it's early humans who have an advanced civilization but they hide in the core of the Earth or under the water or something. And I usually reject that because I think, what are the odds? I mean seriously, what are the odds that I grew up in a world and I'm sort of a primitive and there's this advanced civilization and it's sort of all around me but they're so go

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od at hiding that I don't even know they exist? And I rule that out because there's no way I wouldn't notice if there were an advanced civilization surrounding me. Of course I'd notice that. But these uncontacted tribes don't notice it. So would I notice? It's kind of a wakeup call that we could be an uncontacted tribe basically, because if somebody had as much better technology as we have compare…

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