Labels: text | screenshot | machine | electronics OCR: The narrator explains, "I am inclined to think ARTISTS DREAM OF MARS that this blaze may have been the casting of the H.G. WELLS B huge gun, in the vast pit sunk into their planet, from which CINEMA & MUSIC their shots were fired at us." Martians? Naturally. The narrator explains, "So vain is man and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level ... Since Mars is older than our earth ... it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from life's beginning but nearer its end." Of course, Wells was aware that conditions of life on Mars were harsh, to say the least. The thin atmosphere, the lack of water, and the cold drove the Martians from their planet to seek another home. "To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that generation after generation creeps upon them." Sunward, but where? To Earth, of course. Then, the first extraterrestrial spacecraft struck the Earth. "The Thing itself lay almost entirely buried in the sand, amidst the scattered splinters of a fir-tree it had shivered to fragments in its descent. The uncovered part had the appearance of a huge cylinder, caked over and its outline softened by a thick scaly dun-colored incrustation. It had a diameter of about thirty yards." MARS BEI
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