The red planet has captured our attention throughout human
history. With its relative proximity to us and the sun, early astronomers
thought it was possible for life to exist on Mars. We have envisioned Martians
as everything from humans to antennas. Silver to skeletal invaders with exposed brains, from helmeted cartoons to
four-armed muscular biped warriors - and whatever this is, this PBS even has
its own Martians - some Martians are depicted as monsters, while others are
allies. Why are they all so different? Technology plays a role, and so does
biology, natural history, and war. But all Martian fashion began with a single
mistranslated word. Modern history of Mars began in 1877 when a crucial discovery: a network ofThe lines
were visible on the surface.The Italian astronomer who discovered these grooves
called them "canali".
"Channels" in English. In 1895, astronomer Percival Lowell published the first illustrated book on Mars. Lowell observed the same lines and, writing for an English-speaking audience, translated the word canali into "channels" instead of "channels". And that's when a fateful mistranslation changed the history of Mars forever. He speculated how life could survive there if it really existed. But then Lowell's theories got a little out of it: his book claimed that the surface marks visible on Mars were deliberate as a quote: "No natural theory has yet been advanced that will explain these lines." He theorized that what he was seeing were changes in vegetation made possible by a vast series of irrigation canals. And although he insists that he is only referring to the possibility of an intelligent way of life on Mars, he also says "Certainly, what we see hints at the existence of beings who are ahead Yes, not behind us, on the journey of life. "Now that a scientist had suggested an intelligent life on Mars, the public couldn't get an idea out of their heads, and the press had a field day. Newspapers and newspapers Magazines reprinted Lowell's maps, adding a visual element to the mythology of Mars. Representations in the literature of the time presented Martians as fit humanoids and their society. Utopian. No war, no poverty, no social class, no Prisons and no alcoholism. The Martians were portrayed as advanced beings in both technology and intelligence. They were strange, but a little attractive. Until the war of the worlds that is. No, not that one. No, not that one. This one, HGWells not only gave us one of the first alien invasion novels of all time, but his Martians were a long way from humans, although they possessed superior intelligence, they also wanted to kill humans and inject our Initially serialized in Pearson Magazine in 1897, the story was collected and published as a volume in 1898 and was an immediate success. It has never run out. It increased in popularity after the infamous radio broadcast by Orson Welles in 1938. 30 October, listeners tuned in to listen to their dramatic reading of the book.The show was so realistic that it managed to convince some people that the Martians were really invading New Jersey.Apart from my beloved Yip Yips and Marvin the Martian, these were the first aliens He was once exposed and left a lasting impression. How could they not? After all, the HGWells aliens were essentially giant heads about 4 feet in diameter with nostrils, a fleshy beak, large eyes, and sixteen tentacles arranged in two clusters.Their internal structure was basically all brain.What scared these Martians so much was their ava The wartime machinery of war. Wells describes a 100-foot-tall "monstrous tripod" capable of traveling with the speed "of an express train." These machines, operated by Martians, have flexible metal tentacles, heat-ray pistols, and a chemical weapon. in the form of "black smoke." See? Horrifying. In what is considered one of the best turns in the science fiction plot, the Martians are destroyed not by human military or weapons, but by bacteria. While serious criticism and lingering of the supposed channels on Mars began in the 20th century, that did not stop the authors from writing about life on the red planet. Some authors clung to Mars as an unexplored frontier ripe for a nostalgic romance powered by masculinist fantasy, a place for swords and magic, beasts and treasures, slaves, princesses and other beautiful Martian women who die to be loved by a human man Even the movie picked up the trend After World War I, we see a change in the Martians. Human explorers traveling to Mars in these texts encountered a threat, and we see a wave of non-mammalian extraterrestrial terrestrial insects, reptiles, or worms that were, most Sometimes predators. The stories of aliens from this period could be read as American anxieties about nationalism. and racial segregation. When Martians were described as more humanoid, they were still a threat due to their advanced weaponry. It wasn't really until after the World War II Martians were more commonly referred to as "aliens." This alien word was specifically related to a new term and concept for the time: the "unidentified flying object." As consumer cameras and recording devices became more accessible, so did the popularity of UFOs. People now ra could capture and share "extraterrestrial" experiences. Later Martian literature
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