faididi In reply to yereverluvinuncleber [2015-11-19 23:16:37 +0000 UTC]

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yereverluvinuncleber In reply to faididi [2015-11-19 23:46:32 +0000 UTC]

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faididi In reply to yereverluvinuncleber [2015-11-20 05:29:32 +0000 UTC]

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yereverluvinuncleber In reply to faididi [2015-11-20 09:00:08 +0000 UTC]

I do my own war of the worlds stuff, interfaces/GUIs based on the original book so when the film came out I helped with publicity a little, pushing a stack of publicity images here and there. The last few I submitted recently were just remnants of same that I had promised to submit but never quite got around to.

Glad you like them though.

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faididi In reply to yereverluvinuncleber [2015-11-21 04:11:37 +0000 UTC]

Ah, gotcha. That explains a lot. Thanks for the uploads/shares. It helps a lot - I was toying around with a continuation of 'Goliath' in a short story where 30 years after WOTWG (1944), D-Day will occur on Mars. After some thought, I realized the fastest way to destroy a planet was with ICBMs (or in this case, Nazi "V3" and V4" rockets with primitive atomic fission warheads). Space shuttle heat tiles would provide better defense against the Martian Heat-Rays (since Martian tripods seem to use them as their primary armament).

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yereverluvinuncleber In reply to faididi [2015-11-21 13:51:59 +0000 UTC]

The Victorians were very advanced in ceramic tile technology and had a large production capacity (certainly in England  and China) and could have created an adequate defence against Martian heat rays given time...All they needed was a powered vehicle to place them upon and the time to test/apply the technology. Could have even formed a basis for personal defence that might have sufficed against a glancing attack, ceramic tiles hanging as body armour.

Remember that the Martians in Wotw were using old and existing technology from their own past as they had had no use for weapon technology for a long time. They were adapting and testing those technologies for use in warfare that they had not attempted for hundreds or even thousands of years...

So with that in mind I suggest you incorporate some drastic and unexpected changes to available Martian weaponry, some of it possibly uneffective, some of it devastating and uncontrolled.

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faididi In reply to yereverluvinuncleber [2015-11-22 03:21:03 +0000 UTC]

Hmm. You made a good point.

I read through Wells' original novel; when I do, I tend to envision less of the technology and dwell more on human panic (hey, he was a good writer). In particular, I do like the narrator's brother's narrative (since the younger brother interacts with more human people in a crisis situation - making it more of an action movie). Still, I'm more of a techno-fetish-ist, so I focus on the technology more.

I will have to take up your suggestion with how the Martians used their technology (the Radium and Gravity Rays from the 'Transactions of the Royal Martian Geographic Society' books may be a start -- that or the Eighth or Ninth Rays, LOL) and see how that goes.

May I ask if you are a fan of movies such as District 9 (a.k.a., Alive in JoBurg: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut) and Pacific Rim?

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yereverluvinuncleber In reply to faididi [2015-11-22 11:39:11 +0000 UTC]

Not so interested in either sci-fi other than generally so (as in any other film) - if you see the rest of my gallery you'll note the slant toward retro virtual engineering.

Looking forward to what you produce.

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faididi In reply to yereverluvinuncleber [2015-11-24 03:52:16 +0000 UTC]

Haha. Okay. Will keep you in mind when I subjugate Space 1889 with 1949 dieselpunk.

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yereverluvinuncleber In reply to faididi [2015-11-24 08:20:23 +0000 UTC]

TimeFusion - there you go I just invented the right term too.

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