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[00:27.90]No one would have believed
[00:29.10]In the last years of the nineteenth century
[00:31.74]That human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space
[00:36.42]No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinised as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water
[00:44.82]Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets
[00:48.66]And yet across the gulf of space
[00:51.54]Minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes
[00:58.32]And slowly and surely they drew their plans against us
[01:02.70]At midnight on the 12th of August
[01:21.03]A huge mass of luminous green gas erupted from Mars and sped towards Earth
[01:44.01]Across two hundred million miles of void
[01:44.94]Invisibly hurtling towards us came the first of the missiles that were to bring so much calamity to Earth
[01:51.54]As I watched there was another jet of gas
[01:52.38]It was another missile starting on its way
[02:12.09]And that's how it was for the next ten nights
[02:13.23]A flare spurting out from Mars
[02:13.92]Bright green drawing a green mist behind it a beautiful but somehow disturbing sight
[02:23.13]Ogilvy the astronomer assured me we were in no danger
[02:24.63]He was convinced there could be no living thing on that remote forbidding planet
[02:26.31]The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one he said
[02:34.62]The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one
[02:35.97]But still they come
[02:36.39]Then came the night the first missile approached Earth
[02:45.57]It was thought to be an ordinary falling star
[02:46.92]But the next day there was a huge crater in the middle of the Common
[02:54.12]And Ogilvy came to examine what lay there
[03:00.90]A cylinder thirty yards across glowing hot and with faint sounds of movement coming from within
[03:03.45]Suddenly the top began moving rotating unscrewing and Ogilvy feared there was a man inside trying to escape
[03:06.72]He rushed to the cylinder but the intense heat stopped him before he could burn himself on the metal
[03:09.63]The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one he said
[03:12.21]The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one
[03:13.86]But still they come
[03:14.43]Yes the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one he said
[03:18.45]The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one
[03:22.32]But still they come
[03:26.58]It seems totally incredible to me now that everyone spent that evening as though it were just like any other
[03:43.08]From the railway station came the sound of shunting trains ringing and rumbling softened almost into melody by the distance
[03:48.12]It all seemed so safe and tranquil