In article <38F1F55C.BAC55D42@chemnet.ee>, Antti Markus 
<ant### [at] chemnetee> wrote:

> Charles Krause wrote:
> > If you're patience, the text is available through the project gutenberg
> > site.
> 
> Gutenbergs site is located at: http://promo.net/pg/
> 
> Antti

Sounds like you folks need to read the book. :-)

Okay, there WAS black gas and it was delivered via cannister. There was 
no mother ship; each shell was self-contained, and in addition to the 
fighting machines the martians built other mechanical devices, although 
none was as interesting as the tripod. The martians DID snatch up people 
and put them in "baskets" on the back of the tripod; then they drained 
the blood and pumped it into their own veins -- a rather Victorian bit 
of lurid sensationalism.

Anybody who wants to render one of these things really should read the 
original and not just rely on the '53 movie version or the '70's album 
cover. It's still a great book.

I now have a functioning heat ray for my own tripod. :-) It glows and 
pulses, and it's a really nasty green color. I'm rendering an animation 
of the War Machine with rays which will takle a few days. Then I'll put 
a frame or two up on my site and I'll post the heat ray code.

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