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Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

      But cars and trucks and tanks are also the right shape for what they are (wheels and treads are comically easy to get stuck and useless for a human sized thing, but a tank-sized thing *has to have them* because legs would break at that level of weight)

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

      An interesting historical note here would be to read HG Wells' "The Land Ironclads", which predicts the idea of tanks incredibly well in a time before gasoline engines were even commonplace The one thing he got wrong was failing to imagine the caterpillar treads

      2 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
    3. Orman‏ @LizardOrman 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

      TIL Wells apparently really liked ironclads

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @LizardOrman @BootlegGirl

      I mean, they're tanks, but the word "tank" was a decade in the future

      1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
    5. Orman‏ @LizardOrman 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

      I mean, both because he's using it as a metaphor for tanks, and because IIRC Thunderchild is a literal one

      1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @LizardOrman @BootlegGirl

      Oh yeah, from War of the Worlds Well, ironclads were pretty much the state of the art in cool military shit at the time It's also because that scene is supposed to be a pyrrhic victory for the humans and the Thunder Child beats the Martians by suicidally ramming them

      2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman @BootlegGirl

      The Martians fail to deploy a weapon that can stop it in time partly because it's a badass ship but also partly because they don't fully realize what it's doing until it's too late Classic "evil cannot comprehend true courage" moment

      3 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
    8. Laurent Weppe  🔻‏ @Laurent_Weppe 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman @BootlegGirl

      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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    9. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @Laurent_Weppe @arthur_affect @LizardOrman

      It's weird to think that technically the Tripod books were mecha

      1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
    10. Laurent Weppe  🔻‏ @Laurent_Weppe 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect @LizardOrman

      Keep in mind that the mecha lose in these ones.

      1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @Laurent_Weppe @BootlegGirl @LizardOrman

      The thing is in The Day the Tripods Came, the Tripods were ALREADY weaker than the human military, in a head to head contest between a Tripod and a human fighter jet the Tripod loses Which is the whole reason they go the mind control route

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe and

          The Tripod books also lampshade that in any interplanetary war the conventional war should be pointless - if they have spaceships they could've just killed us all from orbit but for whatever reason they didn't

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe and

          It even says after the Masters' domes are destroyed, a ship arrives and bombs the ruins to keep the humans from reclaiming their tech, but it doesn't just carpet bomb the planet and kill us all even though they obviously could They could've done that in the first place

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        1. The SYLE Press‏ @TheSYLEPress 1 Mar 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe and

          Just in case it's of interest, there's more about John Christopher (real name=Sam Youd) and his writings at http://thesylepress.com/category/john-christopher-resources/ … 🙂pic.twitter.com/Ct0kryFCBO

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