After the War...

[Herulian Martian]

In the TV series, the movie had the governments of the world covering up the invasion...but what if, in a different timeline, America and other govts. decided to unravel the Martian tech after they died from bacteria? (One, we will assume that they really were from Mars and that Mars is barely habitable and still has life) What kinds of defenses could that Earth whip up. Also, what if by 1988, Earth had advanced very very much from Martian Tech. Would the Martians try again? Also, the nuclear bomb failed on the Martians. What if a multimegaton hydrogen bomb or a barrage of H-bombs were dropped on them instead. Those forcefields must have a limit to their defensive power. Also, very sophisticated probes could be launched at mars and scan that world from a great distance...say a Hubble type telescope on the probe? What would life be like on Earth then. Would an alternate Harrison Blackwood be working on a way to counterattack Mars.

Finally, assuming these were aliens from Mor-Tax (which orbits a star inthe constellation Taurus) Would the revived aliens be able to be such a menace to us, or would our adapted tech be enough to stop them even swifter than in the universe where the War of the Worlds was covered up?

[Herulian Martian]

Other questions:

Would a world that remembered the 1953 invasion drop nukes as soon as the Martians landed again?

Might we be able to make recombinant bacteria that they could not defend against?

What about a counterstrike on Mars? Perhaps 10 to 20 years after the invasion, we would indeed fill Mars' ecosphere with our bacteria...killing the Martians's crops if not them!

Perhaps we could find ways to neutralize their forcefields so that nukes would then be effective against them.

Perhaps a computer virus that would affect Martian computers while leaving ours intact?

Just a thought!

[Gerkinman]

or we could just blow um mars...

[Bayne]

[glow=red,2,300]I dunno how easy it would be to blow the planet up
We could try launching an aweful lot of nukes at them but what would stop them heat-raying the missiles before they exploded?
I think bacteriological warfare would be needed but what if the martians worked out some sort of defense against it?
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[Herulian Martian]

I think a proper sequel should be written concerning George Pal's War of the Worlds. Perhaps set in 1988, 2005 or 2053 and how a very changed Earth would deal with the new Martian threat.

[McTodd]

In the 1950s, General Atomics under Freeman Dyson were working on the Orion Project, a huge spaceship propelled by atomic bombs. As a little amusement, some of the scientists calculated that an Orion could lift a large enough hydrogen bomb into orbit as a weapon that it could, if detonated, sterilise the side of the Earth facing it. Maybe two or three of those sent to Mars would do the trick...

[<[Iron Man]>]

Well they would've reversed engineered as much of the aliens technology as possible. I'm sure they would have exploited the biological warfare aspect.

[firesorter]

i reckon we should build a large space station like a small planet or moon capable of moving in space and equiped with a gigantic laser weapon and go blow up mars, we copuld call it something menacing like "the death star" or something.

just an idea!

[xenomorph]

I like the idea of invading and colonizing Mars better. We could build a fleet of interplanetary spacecraft using a Human-Martian hybird propulsion systems. In addition build a vast array of armored vehicles and weapons that could operate on Mars. Once we forced the Martian population to surrender, we build domed cities, towns, villages and farms on Mars. We mine the Martian surface for iron. We seed the atmosphere with algae to turn the CO2 atmosphere of Mars to Oxygen. We dig tunnels to the Martian core and use solar mirrors in Martian orbit to warm up the surface.

If there is no life on Mars, there soon will me }

[Refugee]

I think If we unravelled the martian tech we would want to improve ife but end up destroying it....the martians did the same.

[broton]

xenomorph said:

We dig tunnels to the Martian core

Why?