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Mars Attacked, 65 Years Ago Today

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the american-classic dept.

Jodrell writes "Forget solar flares, and the upcoming Halloween festivities - tonight marks the 65th anniversary of the broadcast of Orson Welles' radioplay version on The War Of The Worlds."

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  1. Panic by Carnildo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder what sort of panic would ensue if someone were to do a similar broadcast now?

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    "They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
  2. Listen to it here by sdmartin101 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You can find an MP3 version of the original broadcast at http://www.unknown.nu/mercury/. (Be nice -- the server is slow even when not being slashdotted.)

  3. An interesting antecdote by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From my grandfather, who worked at a gas station about 20 miles from the "landing site" He said of all the people that stopped at the station that night, half were leaving to get away from the aliens, and the other half were driving towards it!

  4. Crop Circling by bluethundr · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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    Quod scripsi, scripsi.