I guess one way to read this question is to imagine that we're making machines that are human sized and asking what the advantages and disadvantages are to having humanoid bodies vs human sized tanks on treads
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But yeah it's a scene where the really important thing is the armor Kind of interesting that the 1953 movie's version of this scene completely reverses it and has the humans' most devastating weapon be an offensive one, the Bomb, and has it totally fail vs alien shields
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I guess tech from ~1950 on causes a problem because it's too good - it can reliably hit the tripods hard enough to destroy them regardless of conventional armour, so you need to cheat and give them shielding.
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When I read that passage as a kid, I interpretated it as "The Martians overestimate the power of their technology and overlook blatant weaknesses" Then again, I did read the Tripod trilogy before War of the World, and this was a recuring theme of THAT story.
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It's weird to think that technically the Tripod books were mecha
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those moments
I've used this in my "loss as cosmic horror" thing I'm doing.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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