Written in 1898 by HG Wells, War of The Worlds is an eye witness account of an alien vessel crashing to earth and the subsequent invasion upon an English countryside by hostile visitors whom are believed to hail from the planet Mars. That’s right, the original Mars Attacks! In this episode JJ describe his experience listening to a retelling of this classic alien tale.
The book is divided into two parts, Book I and Book2. In Book One, the narrator (Who does not have a name; everyone in the book has a title but no name.) retells the story of how he and his star gazing friend witnesses flashes from a distant planet which crash to earth and later wreak havoc upon mankind. Very little was known to whether this is was world wide occurrence, however, the reader is given insight into the Martian’s excursion into the city of London via the accounts dictated to him from his brothers survival within the city that fought back.
Book Two is meat and potatoes as the reader gets to know a lil bit more about the Martians and just how this invasion ends with a kind of thud. I personally found this section quite intriguing as many of the theories presented are present in today’s influx in curiosity about the existence of aliens.
Notes: I listened to a version of War of the Worlds via the Classics Tale Podcast which is narrated by BJ Harrison. I highly recommend this podcast if you enjoy spoken audio and classic literary tales.
Food For Thought:
The Existence of Aliens
TWB27 we discussed aliens and an article we read that suggest aliens or an alien planet may be either extinct or in the early stages of evolution. For all we know, Mars is or will become possible to inhabit or sustain life. Or, life is already run it’s course on that planet and it is now within the earliest stages of transforming it’s atmosphere into something that could sustain life. Think about man and how pivotal the earliest stages of life after conception is to our development. And as evolution suggest, we evolved and will continue to evolve until our existence as human ends.
Article: The Aliens Are Silent Because They’re Dead
The Diminution of Men (The Martians are humans evolved):
- The Martians brought with them bipeds from another planet which suggest they may be universal travelers in search for either food or sustainable lodging.
- No body. Machinery use for common tasks such as getting around. Bodies are worn like clothing or exoskeletons .
- No digestive system. Injected the blood of bipeds which means less energy expended through other means of digestion. Aliens are vampires.
- Loss of speech.
- No reproductive organs. Introduce PodBabies! Think, The Matrix.
- Relying more on technology… iPhone, tablets, scooters… Wall-E
- Mostly intelligence which means huge… brains.
- The absence of the wheel.
The Martians brought with them bipeds from another planet which suggest they may be universal travelers in search for either food or sustainable lodging.
Living qualities of the machine?
I suspect that this is in context to machines have some sort of organic makeup or functionality, i.e. nanobots injected to your blood stream to destroy cancerous cells. Dunno how I came up the that one. Probably saw it in a movie.
-JJ
The Panic Broadcast – Alien Invasion of 1938
Orson Welles narrated a broadcast of War of the Worlds on October 30, 1938 and fallout was epic as people tuning into the transmission late believed the events being depicted on the radio program in realtime to be authentic.
- Some guy called Orson Welles a carbuncle. Carbuncle, hilarious.
- Was this just stupidity of masses or just delicious audio entertainment?
- On the eve of Halloween aka Devil’s Night.
- Out staged by a show with a ventriloquist dummy?… Okay, these were radio programs. You can’t see the dummy, dummy.
This a great PBS documentary on the Panic Broadcast. I hope the reported interviewed “affected” citizens in this story are reenactments and not real people. Doubt it, but wow, how amazing is this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPEn5k55g-o