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Post by Thunder Child on Jan 26, 2006 15:22:08 GMT
Hi al,
From "Chapter Twelve What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton ":
Enormous quantities of a ruddy-brown fluid were spurting up in noisy jets out of the machine.
What are your personal thoughts about this fluid? What was it and what was it function in the Machine?
Johan
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Jan 26, 2006 16:56:53 GMT
Diaohrrea. The Martians died of Delhi Belly...
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Post by Thunder Child on Jan 26, 2006 18:19:15 GMT
;D LOL ;D
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Post by Chris Oakley on Jan 26, 2006 18:59:38 GMT
;D
Joking aside my interpretation is it's something that powers the machine, a bit like brake fluid.
Whilst we're on the subject, in the "Dead London" painting what are the birds pulling at?
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Post by Lensman on Jan 26, 2006 20:41:22 GMT
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Post by Poyks on Jan 26, 2006 20:45:25 GMT
Sounds more feasible than Martian Squits! hehe!
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Post by BrutalDeluxe on Jan 26, 2006 21:20:27 GMT
I always thought of it as the silt and mud of the river being drawn into the intake system of the fallen tripod and expelled. Mind you I haven't given it much thought in years. Hydraulic fluid seems to make more sense.
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Post by Commandingtripod on Jan 27, 2006 5:15:56 GMT
Didn't Wells write something about some 'brown scum floating down the Thames watched by a group of boys' or something like that?
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Jan 27, 2006 10:00:34 GMT
Didn't Wells write something about some 'brown scum floating down the Thames watched by a group of boys' or something like that? I believe that is to be 'dead' Red Weed.
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Post by Thunder Child on Jan 27, 2006 14:31:34 GMT
I think the Brown Scum is indeed from the fallen Machine:
From The Epiloque:
From In London
Johan
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Jan 27, 2006 17:31:05 GMT
Maybe the Martians had a home brewing kit inside each machine.
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Post by the Donal on Jan 27, 2006 18:03:10 GMT
Or their blood stores oxidising?
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Post by sunnyrabbiera on Jan 27, 2006 18:43:16 GMT
Maybe it was tomato soup, the Martians got mixed up between chicken soup and Tomato as they heard that Chicken soup is good for colds... and no wonder why they got the soups mixed up, the Martian word for tomato is "CHHHHHKKKKKIIIIINNN" and the Martian word for chicken is "TOOOOMAAAAAAAATTTTTOOOOO" well I think that would work for Spielburgs version
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Post by Luperis on Jan 27, 2006 18:43:20 GMT
lol ;D
Seriously though, Hydrolic fluid/etc does make sense.
Or maybe it's supposed to be some kind of waste from the construction process?
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Post by Chris Oakley on Jan 29, 2006 7:13:55 GMT
That's what I thought too. It's just the painting almost suggests that the hoods of the FMs are full of a reddish goo. If you think about it a dead Martian wouldn't be so close to the eyes, or windscreen if you like. Maybe I need to not look into it too much
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Post by Moorkey on Feb 4, 2006 8:14:08 GMT
Wells describes a gas hissing from the joints of the machines as they walked. He also described this 'ruddy brown fluid' jetting from the machine. To me, these both point to the martian war machine having a hydraulic/oleo system powering it. (or the legs at least.) The reservoir, and fluid/air accumulators would have been under extreme pressure, hence jets of fluid when ruptured. (to move the landing gear on a harrier takes thousands of pounds per square inch. They are only small compared to the 150 feet or so of the war machine's legs!
I have seen the effects of a ruptured hydraulic oleo (Harrier landing gear rupture) It wasn't pretty, but the jets of cherry red, almost brown fluid, in hindsight, remind me of the fallen martian.
Also, by it's oil based nature, hydraulic fluid forms a film on top of water that, if left to oxidise, turns brown.
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Post by Leatherhead on Feb 12, 2006 18:48:34 GMT
Interestingly, we saw this fluid in SS's movie. At the end where they detroyed the FM in Boston,
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Post by malfunkshun on May 9, 2006 20:13:20 GMT
odd that hydraulic fluid would be contained within the living quarters of aliens inside the machine. after all, who expects hydraulic fluid to be expelled when opening an exit hatch? wll maybe it all leaked inside the machine after it got whomped with hand held (hand held mind you) rocket launchers. i guess that makes sense, but then wouldn't all of that pressure from the leaking hydraulics have ruptured the hatch? instead it openes and the fluid just pours out. and the martian, having been subjected to these zillions of pounds of hydraulic presure accumulating inside its living quarters, is still alive, even though its sick with the flu. and since when was hydraulic fluid orange?
personally i think if hydraulic fluid had leaked into the interior of the tripod where the aliens lived, it would have ruptured the structure of the machine and splahsed the aliens againts the walls.
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Post by Lensman on May 12, 2006 0:05:34 GMT
Hydraulic fluid is viscous, like a heavy oil. I don't think the large volume of watery fluid that gushed out of the SS tripod was composed of that.
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Post by Commandingtripod on May 12, 2006 6:55:03 GMT
I'm in agreement with you Lensman, I don't think the stuff that came out of the SS tripod was anything like hydraulic fluid. Come to think of it, I don't even know what that stuff was anyway.
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