""Inhabitants Of Mars" Illustration By William R Leigh" Topic
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| Cacique Caribe | 14 May 2017 7:57 p.m. PST |
Believe it or not, this alien body design was from 1908:
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"Illustration by William R. Leigh for the article "The Things That Live on Mars" by H.G. Wells (Cosmopolitan Magazin, March 1908). After the success of his novel, Wells imagined an entire (now again a more peaceful) ecosystem for Mars. In the cold atmosphere the Martians evolved feathers and in the low gravity field of Mars wings are quite useful, an idea already proposed by the astronomer Flammarion, image in public domain."
link link link Except for the wings, they look a bit like alien "Greys", don't they? Dan |
| tkdguy | 14 May 2017 10:15 p.m. PST |
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| Cacique Caribe | 14 May 2017 10:29 p.m. PST |
They also look a bit like these vintage Martians at the Munich Toy Museum:
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 Virtualscratchbuilder   | 15 May 2017 6:03 a.m. PST |
I like how the Martians are following Victorian fashion – cupless corsets. |
 20thmaine | 15 May 2017 11:34 a.m. PST |
They like to keep up to date…. |
| Zephyr1 | 15 May 2017 2:30 p.m. PST |
They're kind of like… beakless pigeons. (Looks like they flock like them, too. ;-) |
| Twoball Cane | 15 May 2017 8:43 p.m. PST |
I see they were going for the National Geographic pictorial with that female w the flowers (I think that's a female) w the gazoongas exposed ! 😍 They are creepy to me. |
 miniMo | 15 May 2017 8:47 p.m. PST |
Somewhat related to the Moon Men, Gidney and Cloyd.
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| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 16 May 2017 7:58 a.m. PST |
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