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They have protected status under the Indian government.
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A couple of missionaries tried to go there in the early 20th century, and they got, like, shot with arrows.
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And...
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For all we know, the North Sentinelese have, like, a myth of aliens encountering them, right?
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Where they're, like, talking about, like, these missionaries, like, you know, they were pale and they looked like us, but not fully like us, you know?
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And...
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They might think that they're from some other star system, but Occam's Razor, you know, the easiest, shortest path explanation is definitely that they're related to you.
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If they look like you and they're showing up in proximity to you, they show a care about your survival.
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You know, in certain cases when the gamete collection occurs with these abduction cases, so, you know, Barney Hill, which we talked about.
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He reluctantly, you know, it's very embarrassing to admit because this was the 60s and this was a very repressed version of America.
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He admitted that, you know, semen samples were taken from him.
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And so then you get into these weird speculation about like, are we in this like intergenerational breeding program?
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Because sometimes the communications between the beings and the humans are like, you know, we experienced a nuclear holocaust and we need to renew our biodiversity or, you know, yeah, things aren't looking great on our planet.
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And so...
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It is.
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And, you know, who knows what...
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Is going on.
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It's hard to say.
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But it seems like these beings have more access to a time agnostic version of reality because there's always missing time in these cases.
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The crafts seem more like almost time machines than they do like vehicles that take you off Earth.