Re: JUNGLE PATROL

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Atkinson" <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com>
> --- KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:
>
> > Certainly, if the primitives have fire, that would
> > stand out on  thermal/IR scanners carried by UAVs or satellites.
> > Without fire, things  might be a bit more iffy.
>
> Are you sure??
>
> Given a hunter-gatherer society (with the usual low
> population density), there probably wouldn't be any
> traces that were not indistinguishable from wildfires
> and other natural sources.

Campfires would be small, locally contained and usually only lit at
certain
times (at night, mostly). Not really a natural pattern.

> I can easily imagine	(especially as humans havn't, in the GZG-verse,
run
> across any non-spacefaring non-human settlements) that
> standard procedure will be to listen for radio signals
> and do an orbital survey that looks for major
> identifiable signatures like concentrated settlements
> (ie cities), irrigation networks, and road networks.

Right, for a 'normal' planet. There might also be searches for changes
to
athmosperic chemistry unlikely to belong to natural causes.

But note that the original - non GZG-verse- scenario had ancient cities
that
had been discovered and were being explored. This certainly would have
prompted a rather more thorough search ?

> After all, with an impact of d4 and the limited effective range of
self
bows, they aren't that much of
> a threat to fully-armored or power-armored troops.

And to archeologists ?

Greetings
Karl Heinz