Originally posted by karajorma
Who says? One crazy man rambling in a basement doesn't make it a canon fact.
Right back at you.
And i´m not talking of hair covered monkeylike creatures, i´m talking Mankind as we know it, as in Homo Sapiens Sapiens. I doubt they would find much diference between a Neanderthal and a orangotang, and last i checked, i didn´t see the tripods hunting much of anything besides us.
And just why would they wait a million years to strike, taking an enourmous risk that we would have evolved up to a point where we could defeat them? If they were from Mars, and they kept a close watch on us, they would have seen us master the atom, and develope space travel. It was an awefull risk to take.
Why didn't we see them coming to MAN the Tripods? Don't be ridiculous. Anything launched at the Earth from Mars on most trajectories will get to cislunar orbit without ever being detected.
If they were shot from Mars, what the hell was that black cloud over the city? The cloud seems to point to a ship in low orbit, firing the pods. Remember that they all arrived at the same time, but you can only see a portion of Earth from Mars. Unless you think the pods were "orbiting" the Earth and droping as they reached their intended targets. But in wich case, they could have been spoted just the same.
No, it all points to a mothership. The winds that started gushing just after the cloud appeared, the cloud itself, the Earth´s curvature, it all points to a mothership in orbit.
The final and perhaps most important point is the idea that we've been 'scouring' Mars for years. We've only been looking at Mars for a short time. Sure we've sent a handful of probes there, and even dropped five or so landers on the planet, but we've hardly scoured the surface and we haven't even looked at subterranean Mars. Any species sufficiently advanced to set up this centuries long plan, probably did their launches when our satellites were on the far side of the planet, from underground launch complexes (pure speculation, but hey, they've been watching us long enough to prepare a ridiculously powerful invasion).
Ah, but we saw how they were terraforming Earth. If they were terraformers, we would have seen some evidence of alien-made structures or changes in Mars surface. We only sent a few probes, that is correct, but we have been looking at it through telescopes for almost 200 years. Something was bound to get picked up. Unless they were not from Mars all along, wich i´m inclined to agree with. The fact that they didn´t invade earlier, knowing that we were evolving so much had they kept us under close watch, indicates they were from somewhere else.
