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To: MtnClimber
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.”

― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

9 posted on 10/01/2020 6:23:01 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The only thing worse than COVID-19 is Biden-20!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

My favorite Mars story has always been Bradbury’s ‘Martian Chronicles’. They made a video of the stories in the 1970s; this first episode was pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_drOFPE6fmA


11 posted on 10/01/2020 6:38:37 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Alas Babylon!

I go to London and see the busy multitudes in Fleet Street and the Strand, and it comes across my mind that they are but the ghosts of the past, haunting the streets that I have seen silent and wretched, going to and fro, phantasms in a dead city, the mockery of life in a galvanised body. And strange, too, it is to stand on Primrose Hill, as I did but a day before writing this last chapter, to see the great province of houses, dim and blue through the haze of the smoke and mist, vanishing at last into the vague lower sky, to see the people walking to and fro among the flower beds on the hill, to see the sight-seers about the Martian machine that stands there still, to hear the tumult of playing children, and to recall the time when I saw it all bright and clear-cut, hard and silent, under the dawn of that last great day. . . .

And strangest of all is it to hold my wife’s hand again, and to think that I have counted her, and that she has counted me, among the dead.


12 posted on 10/01/2020 6:41:46 PM PDT by null and void (Democrats donate to bail money. Republicans donate to scholarships. ~ throwthebumsout)
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To: Alas Babylon!
"Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us." - H. G. Wells - War of the Worlds
13 posted on 10/01/2020 6:48:09 PM PDT by diatomite (Soros delenda est and his flying monkeys too.)
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