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en-wikipedia-org-5510		The War of the Worlds - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	9870	918	71	He speculated that these might be irrigation channels constructed by a sentient life form to support existence on an arid, dying world, similar to that which Wells suggests the Martians have left behind.[11][16] The novel also presents ideas related to Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, both in specific ideas discussed by the Narrator, and themes explored by the story. Wells also wrote an essay titled 'Intelligence on Mars', published in 1896 in the Saturday Review, which sets out many of the ideas for the Martians and their planet that are used almost unchanged in The War of the Worlds.[11] In the essay he speculates about the nature of the Martian inhabitants and how their evolutionary progress might compare to humans. Wells's description of chemical weapons – the Black Smoke used by the Martian fighting machines to kill human beings in great numbers – became a reality in World War I.[24] The comparison between lasers and the Heat-Ray was made as early as the later half of the 1950s when lasers were still in development.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5510.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5510.txt