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Post by richardburton on Feb 28, 2006 16:38:44 GMT
Like the transformers idea! Interesting idea, Misschicky
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Post by Lensman on Feb 28, 2006 20:40:24 GMT
[They] launch 100s of small 'unmanned' ships that [search for] a suitable place. One ship finds Earth and it seeds Earth with small cylinders that are able bury themselves and use the Earth resources to build tripods. The small ship moves on looking for another world but it sends a message to the mother ship that a suitable planet is available. This can explain why no man saw the tripods arrived - they were seeds and buried themselves quickly. Wow, that's a brilliant explanation Misschicken! One of those forehead-slapping "Why didn't *I* think of that?" things. Sure, that would explain many things including why the crew arrived later... they had to wait for the machines to assemble themselves. It also ties in perfectly with the narrator's pronouncement that they had been watching our planet and slowly drew their plans. In this case the reason their plans advanced slowly was because of the time it took them to travel the great distances involved. One might nitpick and object that this would require the assembly machines to be capable of mass transmutation (surely all the elements and artificial materials required to build the Tripods were not available in all the different places the Tripods were built?), and that if they had that technology they wouldn't *need* to travel far from home to find a suitable colony world. The same problem arises with Star Trek's technology. If you have mass transmutation of matter ("replicators") then why in heaven's name do you need to go to harsh frontier worlds to mine minerals, as seen in the classic Trek episodes "Mudd's Women", "Devil in the Dark" and "The Cloud-Minders"? But as I said, that's quibbling. Misschicken has shown us a logical way to explain *how* the aliens did what we saw in the movie. *Why* they did it is another question.
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