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Old July 6th, 2005, 06:50 AM
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Hunpecked said:
Randallw writes:

"...but these days you'd expect highly advanced aliens to consider such things."

As I recall, H. G. Wells himself explained this. His Martians were so old and so highly evolved that they had pretty much forgotten their primitive origin. Since they didn't have to deal with such things on their own world anymore, they couldn't even conceive of such things on other planets (specifically, Earth).

For some reason I'm reminded of http://www.moviepunks.com/?id=43
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