# "Lost World" found in Indonesia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 7, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-world-found-in-indonesia/343422 "2006-02-07T18:26:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-world-found-in-indonesia/343422/1 "2006-02-07T18:26:58Z")
Hope this hasn’t been posted already: An expedition to a remote section of Indonesia has found an area apparently previously unvisited by human beings. [Link](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11114156/). Cool! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-world-found-in-indonesia/343422/2 "2006-02-07T18:31:42Z")
Just make sure the windows are all closed when they bring back that caged specimen to the British Museum… ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-world-found-in-indonesia/343422/3 "2006-02-07T18:43:00Z")
This news makes me glad and sad. Glad that this kind of place still exists, but sad because unless they make that a heavily protected area, it’ll only be a matter of time until humans rape and pillage it, undoubtedly driving some of those animals to extinction. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-world-found-in-indonesia/343422/4 "2006-02-07T18:43:44Z")
Linky no worky for me. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-world-found-in-indonesia/343422/5 "2006-02-07T18:52:05Z")
I saw a few of the stupid pictures but nobody really described what those things taste like. How much for a guided hunt no amenity spared? ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-world-found-in-indonesia/343422/6 "2006-02-07T19:05:08Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > This news makes me glad and sad. Glad that this kind of place still exists, but sad because unless they make that a heavily protected area, it’ll only be a matter of time until humans rape and pillage it, undoubtedly driving some of those animals to extinction. Not to mention hold a survivor there. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-world-found-in-indonesia/343422/7 "2006-02-07T19:07:24Z")
Meh, no dinosaurs. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-world-found-in-indonesia/343422/8 "2006-02-07T19:08:54Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Linky no worky for me. ☹ Sorry – dunno what the problem is – it’s a link to a short piece on MSN – someone may be able to provide something more detailed. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-world-found-in-indonesia/343422/9 "2006-02-07T19:10:56Z")
Did they find Jimmy Hoffa? ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-world-found-in-indonesia/343422/10 "2006-02-07T19:12:50Z")
I want Dodo birds damnit! ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-world-found-in-indonesia/343422/11 "2006-02-08T01:31:35Z")
Interesting. The best thing that could have happened, sadly, was for it to have remained lost. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-world-found-in-indonesia/343422/12 "2006-02-08T02:20:09Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > This news makes me glad and sad. Glad that this kind of place still exists, but sad because unless they make that a heavily protected area, it’ll only be a matter of time until humans rape and pillage it, undoubtedly driving some of those animals to extinction. ☹ Apparently it was already a protected area. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-world-found-in-indonesia/343422/13 "2006-02-10T12:58:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Beehler said there did not appear to be any immediate conservation threat to the area, which has the status of a wildlife sanctuary, he said. > > “No logging permits are given to this area, there is no transport system — not a single road,” Beehler said. > > “But clearly with time everything is a threat. In the next few decades there will be strong demands, especially if you think of the timber needs of nearby countries like China and Japan. They will be very hungry for logs.” That’s the key thing: if no roads, then no logging. If there’s any sort of fund to pay the locals to not build any roads leading to this area, I’m ready to chip in some money each year from now until doomsday. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-world-found-in-indonesia/343422/14 "2006-02-10T14:14:48Z")
Where are the Sleestacks? ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-world-found-in-indonesia/343422/15 "2006-02-10T17:59:46Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Where are the Sleestacks? They found The Lost World, not The Land Of The Lost. **Past All Reason** If the area and the species in it had not been found by scientists, they would eventually have been found loggers, farmers, etc and the new species would have vanished without ever being recorded.