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So, I'm reading the War of the Worlds and I have decided that almost all science fiction written before oh... 2005 is impossible to read. At least for me. I've been reading it very slowly, simply because half of the things that H.G. Wells bases his monsters on are complete bullshit. I can't really fault him for that, considering this shit was apparently witten before science was invented.
First, his claim is that the martians want to come to Earth because it's warmer here. Ya, just a bit... Mars is further away from the sun, so it's much fucking colder there, although its orbit is much more elliptical, so the temperature range is enormous. That would be like us going "It's a bit chilly, so lets go to Venus. It'll be warmer there!" Yes, and then you die.
Second, Wells says Earth is three times the mass of Mars. Uh, no. Earth is a little over nine times the mass of Mars, meaning martians would not be able to fucking MOVE. If you weighed 150 pounds on mars you would weigh 1350 pounds on earth. You would probably be crushed simply by the weight of your internal organs.
Third, Wells says the Martians would be able to overcome their sudden weight gain because of the plentiful oxygen here. Wha? That doesn't make any sense, first because Martians would most likely have adapted to their own atmosphere (not be weak there because they were built for the atmosphere here). And two, the atmosphere there is about 95% carbon dioxide. They would be fucking dying of carbon dioxide depravation. Less than one percent of Mar's atmosphere is oxygen, so I'm guessing too much would kick their shiny tentacled asses, like CO2 does to us.
And last (possibly because I'm only 50 pages into this) three of ten containers with martians in have landed in England SO FAR. Only three have fucking landed at all. Now, consider the size of the globe, then the size of England. It's not too fucking likely all these guys would land there, even if they wanted to. Asia would be a good choice, also Africa or possibly one of the Americas. Or the fucking Pacific Ocean, which is, as we all know, a fuck of a lot bigger than England.
Now I understand this is fiction, and so it's not supposed to be true. I got that. But can it at least be accurate? I am actually having trouble reading this book because these things are so fucking WRONG. Jeebus.
End of rant.
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First, his claim is that the martians want to come to Earth because it's warmer here. Ya, just a bit... Mars is further away from the sun, so it's much fucking colder there, although its orbit is much more elliptical, so the temperature range is enormous. That would be like us going "It's a bit chilly, so lets go to Venus. It'll be warmer there!" Yes, and then you die.
Second, Wells says Earth is three times the mass of Mars. Uh, no. Earth is a little over nine times the mass of Mars, meaning martians would not be able to fucking MOVE. If you weighed 150 pounds on mars you would weigh 1350 pounds on earth. You would probably be crushed simply by the weight of your internal organs.
Third, Wells says the Martians would be able to overcome their sudden weight gain because of the plentiful oxygen here. Wha? That doesn't make any sense, first because Martians would most likely have adapted to their own atmosphere (not be weak there because they were built for the atmosphere here). And two, the atmosphere there is about 95% carbon dioxide. They would be fucking dying of carbon dioxide depravation. Less than one percent of Mar's atmosphere is oxygen, so I'm guessing too much would kick their shiny tentacled asses, like CO2 does to us.
And last (possibly because I'm only 50 pages into this) three of ten containers with martians in have landed in England SO FAR. Only three have fucking landed at all. Now, consider the size of the globe, then the size of England. It's not too fucking likely all these guys would land there, even if they wanted to. Asia would be a good choice, also Africa or possibly one of the Americas. Or the fucking Pacific Ocean, which is, as we all know, a fuck of a lot bigger than England.
Now I understand this is fiction, and so it's not supposed to be true. I got that. But can it at least be accurate? I am actually having trouble reading this book because these things are so fucking WRONG. Jeebus.
End of rant.
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