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Old 31-January-2006, 12:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Astro-Noob
I've read the book, but haven't seen the movie. According to the book, the machines weren't buried, they were actually FIRED BY CANNON from mars. Consider the age of the book, this may have looked plausible to them then. The top of the "shells" unscrewed, the alien's machines began constructing the death rays and tripods, while the aliens squirmed uselessly about (gravity too high for them). Good reading.
And the funny thing is, compared to this, the movie was completely realistic
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