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Originally Posted by Penforhire
You're still assuming aliens would be, well... alien. I'm not saying it is a terrible assumption but our experience suggests the opposite isn't a terrible assumption either.
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But our "experience" doesn't extend beyond this planet. I don't think we can assume aliens would be like us, just because "us" is the only life-form we know.
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Originally Posted by altworld
Weren't the Invaders from Mars actually implied to have invaded Mars first? Or am I getting something mixed up here?
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That wasn't in Wells' original book (and I don't recall such an implication in the
Thomas Edison Conquers Mars "sequel").