Conquered Before They Could Conquer

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"No one would have believed that 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"(3). These are the opening words of H.G. Wells in his classic science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds. In his book, the men from mars carefully watch earth so that they have a better understanding of human's and their means of technology. The Martians attack earth and use their superior technology and intelligence to take it over. The only problem is they have not explored every aspect of the earth and its nature. The Martians invincibility is due to their careful scrutiny of man over time but their demise is due to their lack of attention to the actual planet.

The Martians watch the humans closely as if they are being dissected under a microscope. They carefully scrutinize and study man to find out his flaws and weaknesses. For years before the actual invasion, the Martians carefully monitor the planet earth, paying close attention to the technological advancements and other intelligence humans possess. "That as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scr

utinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water"(3). Humans on earth never have a clue that they are being watched or studied. "Even as they luxuriate in a mental inertia of 'all's well,' keener intelligences from Mars covet the earth and lay plans to conquer it"(44). All of mankind simply goes about their everyday believing that they are not only the superior beings of the galaxy but also the only beings. Man's ignorance of there being life on Mars and lack of advanced technology to discover it plays right into the hands of the Martians, allowing them to look as closely as they want without any risk of being discovered. "Men like Schiaparelli watched the red planet-it is odd, by-the-bye, that for countless centuries Mars has been the star of war-but failed to interpret the fluctuating appearances of the markings they mapped so well. All that time the Martians must have been getting ready"(5). Man is obviously unaware that there is anyone even out there little own intelligent beings from Mars looking right back at him watching him go about his business and monitoring his brilliance. The Martians' analysis helps them better understand human technologies in comparison with their own.

The takeover of earth by the Martians was quite short lived because they soon are defeated. But this defeat is not caused by man or anything man made for that matter, the Martians collapse is a result of their lack of attention to the earth and its nature. Although the Martians are well prepared for man and his defenses, they are not prepared for the defenses of the earth. "Here and there they were scattered, nearly fifty altogether, in that great gulf that they had made, overtaken by a death that must have seemed to them as incomprehensible as any death could be"(187). The Martians settled themselves in after their triumph but they ended up dying right where they stood without any gunfire or other usage of weapons. "With their advanced technology came contempt for nature; with their contempt came ignorance"(4522). After all of the death and destruction and human loss, something that has existed on earth since before man was even the smallest organism took the Martians out with one swift

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