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Now that I have seen the movie I looked at this thread. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . While there was speculation that the machines were buried hundreds or even "millions" of years ago it is uninformed speculation in the movie. For a number of reasons I doubt this. After the movie a group of us was thinking that the machines were likely built by nanomachines and that could have been as recently as a few hours. The book version had the Martians fired from large cannon on Mars. The Pal movie version I believe had rockets from Mars. In that movie version the shapes of the machines was just a much larger form of the eye apparatus at the end of the metal tentacle that searches the house. There were several homages in the film. I always thought that the Pal alien war machines were powered by anti-gravity and were not tripods but someone else in the group said the lights under the craft gave the impression of three legs. Who knew --- That a large EMP would knock out all electrical equipment except for video cameras? That lightning type discharges could be used as transporter devices? That creatures far in advance of us that can launch a massive worldwide invasion utterly defeating our military and are evidently using human and mammalian blood for unknown evil purposes and can even start establishing an alien ecosystem in a matter of days would give no thought to Earth microorganisms? That the best actor in the movie would be about 9? I dislike Tom Cruise but his character was not likeable particularly in the beginning of the movie so that was OK. On 7/2/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Spoilers...you get the idea... > -- Gary Denton http://www.apollocon.org June 24-26 Easter Lemming Blogs http://elemming.blogspot.com http://elemming2.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
