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** Alternatively, it was a different disease that took them down. The protagonist ''supposes'' it was the common cold, but it could as easily been the flu or even the one of the symbiotic bacteria that everyone has, but which had changed so much by the invaders' time that they were incompatible with the modern version and were killed by it.

** possibly so called 'Friendly' bacteria....Death by Yakult!

*** Chicken Pox, schmicken pox. Nothing can outmatch ''Latobacilli, '''SHIROTA STRAIN!!!!!!''' ''

* Maybe it wasn't that the bacteria or viruses infected the Martians ''per se.'' Maybe bacteria got to places that didn't take kindly to having a layer of bacteria covering it, and the Martians died just as a person would die if their internal organs suddenly got coated in a foreign substance.

 

== The Heat Rays in the Spielberg movie were actually energy-leaching beams ==

* A focused beam of electrons would have the effect presented in the film, violently vaporizing water which could destroy people and vehicles while leaving stuff like clothes intact(if ragged).

 

== The Martians accidentally took bacteria back to Mars. ==

The entire planet was soon engulfed with a terminal case of just about everything. Only the Martian children survived, still being young enough to adapt and regrow an immune system. Most of the Martian's knowledge and history was lost, but the machines - merely being extensions of the Martian brain - were still useable. When the children grew up, they realized that society would stagnate if they didn't learn more. They turned to Earth again, knowing that the attempt to conquer it was what nearly killed their entire race. Instead, they sought to learn from us and hopefully coexist in peace. For the past couple of decades, they've been sending scouting parties armed with nothing more than a book of general knowledge, and they're quite friendly (if a bit shy.)

 

== Humanity has been one long Martian scientific experiment. ==