Subaru-Powered, Flying Car Gets FAA Approval

Great cars aren't they

Yes they are one of the very best cars i've ever owned.

so very true

Actually I'd argue they could use quite a bit of help what with the rampant disease, sanitation issues, poverty, and starvation. I think you misinterpreted when they said "saving the third world" because the only kind of saving that the ever mentioned was that "Saint started the firm to solve technological problems for remote tribes of Central and South America". Nothing in the article suggests they've going in and doing 1600's style evangelism. They're simply helping out people in need. Why be against that?

Funny you would look past the fact that this same tribe killed his Father and jump straight to defending your religion of hating religion.

It's part of the dogmatic religion of bashing any other religion that afflicts a certain percentage of the world at present.
Religion defined is repetition.

If that's all it is then okay to some extent. If you ever watch Star Trek then you know about the "Prime Directive" --a concept born out historical retrospect on colonialism. Introducing new technologies to a society too quickly can be extremely destructive. As for there being no Christian indoctrination component here, I have serious doubts.

A good book on the subject, "Savages" by Joe Kane.

No, actually I respect their native religion and their right to exist as they are.

Who simply helps people in need? If i saw someone helping without a personal agenda, i'd know it was an anomaly.

OK, I will resist the urge to comment on the merits basing aspects of your foreign policy opinion on Star Trek, but your point is valid. Obviously trying to thrust an archaic civilization in to modern times would be potentially overwhelming. But here's where my opinion stems from: think about the people here in the United States who are homeless, think of all of the aid we send them to help get them rehabilitated and back on their feet and get them out of poverty and starvation and free from the unsanitary, disease ridden conditions that plague their everyday life. We spare no expense for them because we know that we can make an improvement in their lives and standard of living. Now think about Africa, where social injustice runs rampant and famine, disease, crime and war destroy lives and ruin families and entire cities are literally burned to the ground be rivals and corrupt governments. Doesn't your heart just break for them? Mine does. It's why we send them aid like there's no tomorrow...because for some of them there literally won't be.

Now lets travel a different place. There are a people called the Urarina who are facing literal extinction from ecocide. Their environment is being destroyed as they occupy it, their food is being destroyed and stolen by the government of their own country. Who's helping them when they can't help themselves?

Next are the Alacaluf, a people who are essentially "sea nomads" and travel from island to island in search of nothing more than daily sustenance. They don't always find it...in fact, they rarely find it. Their average life expectancy is in the 30's because of starvation and disease from exposure to their own excrement in their boats. Who's helping them to overcome their circumstances?

Last are the Yagua, who are succumbing to a rather odd plight: they've been building their villages farther and farther apart and are actually dying because they can't get the resources they need to survive and their settlements are too far apart to facilitate trading. They're in desperate need of food and clothing but can't get it due to their location.....kinda sounds like they could use a better form of transportation doesn't it?

Now, you might have guessed where these people are located. They're in South America. specifically Peru, Chile, and the Amazon Basin. Now can you honestly say that nothing should be done for them? Do you value their culture over their existence? If you do....lets just say their won't be any culture left for you to revere in the very near future. Why don't we feel compassion for them like we do for people in Africa or even the homeless here in the United States? You're putting these people up on a pedestal and saying that because of their traditions and culture that they've somehow got it all together and are just fine in the world today. Well I've got news for you: they're not. And without aid they never will be. It's a shame that the real world isn't as simple as Avatar (hey, you used Star Trek) with indigenous people who can sustain themselves and who lack nothing, but we live in a world where that's not the case, and frankly it's selfish of you to not admit that. While I do respect their culture and traditions, it's incredibly naive to think that that's enough to sustain them when they're dying in front of our eyes.

To answer your question, I think there are a lot of groups like that, I've worked with and donated to several of them. And yes, many are Christian organizations, but their goal is to help people, not do 1600's style missionary work to force cultures to change. It's also incredibly interesting to me how come there are so many Christian groups that are doing work like this to bring people out of poverty and rescue them from disease and crime and yet so few secular groups with the same goals...liberals in particular always present themselves as the group that holds compassion for the little guy and the disadvantaged so why aren't their tons of liberal organizations out in the field right now trying to help? In contrast, conservatives are always painted as the group that only cares about self and big business, and yet for some inexplicable reason, conservative aid groups outnumber liberal aid groups by 5 to 1 in Africa and East Asia according to a 2009 Newsweek article (they didn't have stats on South America).

Frankly I don't care who helps as long as help and aid are provided, but those stats are pretty interesting aren't they?

They're in the video!

Who could afford one any way? I agree with Ares it would be cool to fly/drive one....once anyway. Sort of like hang gliding something fun to try ...once.

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GO AWAY!

That was the 5th one I've come across, dammit fchfyjh.