War of the Worlds

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War of the Worlds

• By
• H.G. Wells

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A plot in 5 seconds

• Creatures from Mars try to take over earth
• Humans fight back, and loose
• Disease kills Martians
• Humans re-inherit the earth

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Mars

• Minimal CO2 -based atmosphere.
• Fe causes red appearance.
• Mars may have once had liquid H2O, but not now.
• Possibly Mars once had simple life but
• Not yet sufficiently proven and,
• So far, no one has shown that it has life now.

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Wells In his own words

• It has air and water and everything necessary
  for the development of animated life.
• The world is far gone in its cooling.

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Wells Mars

• CO2 -based atmosphere.
• Red plants cause color, the same way some
  portions of earth would appear green.
• Diminishing liquid H2O
• Advanced life forms including entire forests (red
  creeper), intelligent life, and a food chain to
  connect them.

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Disparities

• Atmosphere
• Liquid H2O
• It was once believed that the canals on Mars
  were built by intelligent life trying to stretch
  their limited H2O resources.
• These modifications are necessary for life as we
  know it and therefore necessary for an alien
  invasion plot.

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Life on Mars?

• Our current knowledge of Mars says it may have
  once been possible for life to form.
• Meteorite AHL 84001 is supposed to contain
  fossilized microbes, however that is still highly
  debated.
• If AHL 84001 is genuine it represents the most
  advanced life form we know of on any planet other
  than earth.

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Life on Wells Mars

• Specifically three different life forms are
  mentioned
• The invaders.
• The only Martian plant capable of surviving on
  earth (Red Creeper), a harmless vine.
• A human-like species that the aliens feed off of
  on their home planet.

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In his own words

• They were huge round bodies or rather heads
  about 4 feet in diameter, each body having in
  front of it a face. This face had no nostrils.
  Indeed the Martians do not appear to have any
  sense of smell, but it had a pair of very large
  dark colored eyes and just beneath this a kind of
  fleshy beak. At the back of this head or body, I
  hardly know how to speak of it, was a single
  tight tympanic surface. Since known to be
  anatomically an ear though it must have been
  almost useless in our dense air. In a group round
  the mouth were 16 slender almost whip like
  tentacles arranged in two bunches of eight each.

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Technology

• As Wells describes them, the Martians were as
  mortal as any human, the trick was getting past
  their technology.
• Most of the Martian technology, described in War
  of the Worlds, we have today!

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Space ship Vs.

• Their spaceship was modeled after a gun. The
  Martians pile into the bullet and are fired at
  the planet they intend to invade.

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.Hollow point bullets

• As the name implies this is a hollowed out
  bullet. This design causes them to expand upon
  entering a target. This causes much more damage
  than a standard bullet and destroys the bullet
  itself in the process. This makes identification
  impossible.
• It is for this reason that they are illegal.

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Heat ray Vs.
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.Laser

• X 1000

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Robots Vs.

• Wells acknowledged that earth is larger than Mars
  and so has stronger gravity.
• To compensate, and as war devices, the Martians
  built mechanical bodies.
• This is comparable to

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.Pick one

• Tank
• Gundam
• Android bodies from Men in Black
• Shout out another if youve got it

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The end
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Credits

• http//www.nasa.gov/worldbook/mars_worldbook.html
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALH84001
• http//imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/SPA/F
  2179NASA-Endeavour-on-Pad-Spaceshots-Posters.jpg
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_point_bullet
• http//www.hoax-slayer.com/images/mars.jpg
• http//www.solarviews.com/eng/mars.htm
• http//mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/why.html
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