Bryron Haskin (1953): War of the Worlds

“Whenever a superior civilization, state or life form encounters its inferior counterpart, the latter is almost always subdued or eradicated by brutal force.” [Dragan Antulov, review of War of the Worlds.]

This is true since the stronger existence can easily overpower the ‘inferior counterpart’ because of their weaponry sophistication, dominating size, extreme intelligence and/or economic power. The civilization, state or life that has these superior characteristics will usually conquer the opposing life form. In War of the Worlds these statements were correct to a point. The offending predators had the sophistication, domination, intelligence and power that created extreme terror and disaster among the attacked areas of the world however their defeat didn’t include a collapse in any of their highly sophisticated qualities. However until the defeat the world was helpless since it had nothing strong enough to protect itself, including the very limited form of weaponry, ...