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That "Man" was Bin Laden.

Now, we as a Nation are on a tear, looking for anyone to fight, and seemingly, have found a bunch of baddies in Iraq.

The only benefit to science is the contracts for military hardware, often very high-tech in nature.

Unless we get an actual attack War of the Worlds style, then space science is on the back burner for a generation.

Huh? That means you Martians have already explored 2% of the Universe?

Not just that, but the series image (pardon the darkness, calibrated for Macintosh) has the hand clutching an Earth that is a top-to-bottom mirror image of a more famous image. Note the cloud pattern by the thumb.

So technically they both clutch from the bottom.

What's wrong with steampunk Victorians fighting off a Martian invasion?

You'll get them. There are two War of the Worlds movies coming out. The other one from Pendragon Pictures will be set in the original book's setting.

I know what I'll be doing this weekend: retooling and reorganizing my War of the Worlds website. Interesting that this Spielburg version is depicting the alien hand holding the Earth in a manner very reminiscent of the 1988-1989 season of the TV series.

I just wish I had a complete working copy of the old waroftheworlds.com Radio Classics website, especially their story, "The Last Chat Room". Lost my copy to hard drive corruption. Random two-byte errors in the image files. Anyone who can help, drop me a line at my site, either having an archived version or can repair damaged GIF and/or JPEG files. (The Way-Back Machine sadly doesn't have a copy.)

I loved that show, cheesy as it was

Here's another link with an episode guide

Who can forget the greeting of the Advocacy: TO LIFE IMMORTAL!

To keep the budget down they just created one video of the aliens in alien shaped spacesuits standing around in a circle and wobbling about a bit, and the script would be dubbed over at a later date.

I loved that show, cheesy as it was

Here's another link with an episode guide

Who can forget the greeting of the Advocacy: TO LIFE IMMORTAL!

To keep the budget down they just created one video of the aliens in alien shaped spacesuits standing around in a circle and wobbling about a bit, and the script would be dubbed over at a later date.

Oh yes. The site's style attempts to immerse you into the mythos of the series. This following the lead of the series in tying in both the movie and broadcast.

With the series also having a tripod manta-shaped ship buried on an American Indian reservation thousands of years prior ("Dust to Dust") and a frozen escape pod elsewhere ("The Raising of Lazarus"), this leaves open the possibility of other incidents and allows tying in even more stories.

It gets difficult in some areas though, such as comic books, especially ones that crossover with other comics like Superman. I know it is quite a stretch and that I don't succeed everywhere, but it is just a way to tie the site together in a fun way.

It's a pity I can't make any money off of it, what with its top search ranking and all. Well, I could, but I just don't think it would be right.

Oh yes. The site's style attempts to immerse you into the mythos of the series. This following the lead of the series in tying in both the movie and broadcast.

With the series also having a tripod manta-shaped ship buried on an American Indian reservation thousands of years prior ("Dust to Dust") and a frozen escape pod elsewhere ("The Raising of Lazarus"), this leaves open the possibility of other incidents and allows tying in even more stories.

It gets difficult in some areas though, such as comic books, especially ones that crossover with other comics like Superman. I know it is quite a stretch and that I don't succeed everywhere, but it is just a way to tie the site together in a fun way.

It's a pity I can't make any money off of it, what with its top search ranking and all. Well, I could, but I just don't think it would be right.

The movie depicted destruction of the Eiffel Tower in a still image in the middle, also crashed ships in India and Rio de Janeiro, but these shots weren't used in the TV series. But they did establish entombed aliens in Canada, and a lot active in China in a summit of world scientists in the episode The Last Supper (the first season used biblical references for every episode title).

I would like to hear more about the location for the initial landing site from the movie to add to the site I cited above. If you could send it to the webmaster address at that site, I'd appreciate it.

You may be ashamed, but I put up a web site for it and every other version of the story I could find.

Which reminds me, I really need to take some time to make some updates.

"There have been several film and television versions of the novel"

The television series got some interesting reviews here and here

Although I don't think I'd want to collect every single orginal paper novel.

( damned overuse of underline and italics hurts the eyes! )

And the lack of indentation for the lists making it harder to follow the logic.

I have a cleaned up version, but this site won't let me nest lists as deep as this bill does (3 vs. 5). So here's a temporary mirror. Pardon the uncentered headers.

A pity that The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension got the date wrong.

But then so did the TV series War of the Worlds (transcribed script). The series attempted to establish that the 1938 broadcast was an actual invasion, but was a scout force sent in advance of the 1953 invasion depicted in the movie. They suggested that Orson Welles and men from the government came by following that attempted invasion and concocted a panic-inducing script to cover up what really happened.

Except the radio broadcast was on the 30th and the eyewitnesses had it occuring on the 31st. Meaning Welles (and not Howard Koch) wrote the radio play in at most -1 days, probably less. Now that's a neat trick.

The site is mine, and I need to resume updating it. It's written from the perspective of the series, and so incorporates the mythos, yet also serves as a collection of tellings of the story, including comic books and arcade games. It suffers from a lack of airing of the TV series. I just haven't been able to keep up my own interest in it.

A pity that The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension got the date wrong.

But then so did the TV series War of the Worlds (transcribed script). The series attempted to establish that the 1938 broadcast was an actual invasion, but was a scout force sent in advance of the 1953 invasion depicted in the movie. They suggested that Orson Welles and men from the government came by following that attempted invasion and concocted a panic-inducing script to cover up what really happened.

Except the radio broadcast was on the 30th and the eyewitnesses had it occuring on the 31st. Meaning Welles (and not Howard Koch) wrote the radio play in at most -1 days, probably less. Now that's a neat trick.

The site is mine, and I need to resume updating it. It's written from the perspective of the series, and so incorporates the mythos, yet also serves as a collection of tellings of the story, including comic books and arcade games. It suffers from a lack of airing of the TV series. I just haven't been able to keep up my own interest in it.

A fews years ago, a few friends and I decided to mark this occasion in what we thought was a pretty interesting manner. We, being native Jerseyites, took a trip out to the location where the "meteor" (sparking the invasion and spooking the local population) originally impacted - Browns Mills, NJ - and making some of our own "crop circles". We were drunk and not very skilled at this endeavor, but the end result turned out pretty nicely we thought. We kept at it while too and make them farily large and noticable. We did this in the dead of night, and whether or not the farmer in question caught the meaning of what we did, I'm fairly certain we gave him something to scratch his head over and ponder the next morning.

A fews years ago, a few friends and I decided to mark this occasion in what we thought was a pretty interesting manner. We, being native Jerseyites, took a trip out to the location where the "meteor" (sparking the invasion and spooking the local population) originally impacted - Browns Mills, NJ - and making some of our own "crop circles". We were drunk and not very skilled at this endeavor, but the end result turned out pretty nicely we thought. We kept at it while too and make them farily large and noticable. We did this in the dead of night, and whether or not the farmer in question caught the meaning of what we did, I'm fairly certain we gave him something to scratch his head over and ponder the next morning.

If only you could put multiple differnet-sized displays in that chassis. It'd be a great setup upon which to find out if the only winning move really is not to play.

Once you get your head wrapped around how to use them efficently, your productivity goes up.

Isn't it more about getting them wrapped around your head efficiently? (Insert "Soviet Russia" joke here.)

I'd like one of these.

Yes, it is a photoshop (and a simple one at that), but it is based on this offering. The company also has wall-mounted systems that let you build a display in an 8x8 grid (64 heads).

There's plenty of water, so ... when the Martians attack Earth, it's because they want our C02, right?

Take for instance the example on the main page of this (if it's not slashdotted already), the two swimmers standing ready to dive in. In a real-orld situation, by the time the first picture of th swimmer on the left was taken, the one on the right may have already dived in - when it comes to take that one's picture, he would be already swimming away. Hence if these images were composited, it would look like one dived in while the other was still on the blocks.

Take for instance the example on the main page of this (if it's not slashdotted already), the two swimmers standing ready to dive in. In a real-orld situation, by the time the first picture of th swimmer on the left was taken, the one on the right may have already dived in - when it comes to take that one's picture, he would be already swimming away. Hence if these images were composited, it would look like one dived in while the other was still on the blocks.

Take for instance the example on the main page of this (if it's not slashdotted already), the two swimmers standing ready to dive in. In a real-orld situation, by the time the first picture of th swimmer on the left was taken, the one on the right may have already dived in - when it comes to take that one's picture, he would be already swimming away. Hence if these images were composited, it would look like one dived in while the other was still on the blocks.

Tonight: Humor at Fox:"How we never went to the Moon and why the peanut-butter has no butter". Featuring Bart Simpson, from a not-yet released comedy for MAD-TV.

But if you got to the show in the middle of it, after the 2-seconds disclaimer broadcast, well, you may well think that it was indeed serious.

Do you guys remember Orson Wells and "The War of the Worlds" radio broadcast? If they had put commercials and had kept saying after them ("... and after this marvelous commercial of Chicken Soup Inc., let's now continue with the theatrical version of the book The War of The Worlds, by H.G. Wells...") nothing wrong could have happened.

Is there any law that prohibits broadcasting dubious information ( = Hoaxes) in a news-informational mode?

Regards, opkool

The article says the movies were developed independently of each other. Now as to The Last Broadcast, Orson Welles beat them to the idea a long time ago. See http://www.war-of-the-worlds.org/Radio/