What if Martians invaded Earth in 1913? 

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What if america went full manifest destiny. Purchase of Greenland. Purchase and state hood of English carribean and English Belize and English Guyana. Purchase of western Canada. Annexation of northern Canada.

Swiss SMASH.

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Every alien Civilization knows don't mess with Switzerland 🇨🇭

We’re else would they launder their stolen gold?

Well, Mountain terrain isn't the ideal for the tripods, also other nations such as Greece would've been (relatively) safe.

Id Watch that in cinema. Teddy Roosevelt in a mech suit punching tripods

That's a common trope. There are like two or three sequels of war of the worlds with him on chargue. One of them have him riding atop a human reverse-engineered tripod, carrying a heavy machine gun and a human energy weapon, downing marties like is nobody's bussiness.

@@rapatacush3 War of the Worlds: Goliath for anyone wondering

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@@nganpham4519 a slang nickname of The Flu

Then again you should see my family in late November 🤒🤧🤒🤧😵

Poland: "Let's revive the hussars! They would surely destroy the aliens, right? RIGHT?!"

I was hoping it would end with almost all of Humanity being wiped out until Lettow von Vorbeck, armed with seven men & a stick, defeats the Martians in a 20-year guerrilla war.

Wow, that would be amazing.

Deffenders in a spacefaring war of conquest/invasion have the unsurmountable advantage of living there. Unless we have star wars levels of instant travel, and even if in some ways, The attackers bassicaly have what they came with and that's it, they have to succed alone and succed fast because reinforcements aint on the way. Even if reinforcements are on the way, if said reinforcements take centuries, even decades to come, they may aswell never come

A space conquering civilization may very well have settled for not reinforcing their troops, never. A succesfull conquering space force would likely send invasion forces everywhere in an atempt to engulf as much space as possible for to negate it to competitors, then it would likely only resuply those invasion forces that succeded as you do with an investment, and for those who werent fruitfull, well.. You cut your loses and forget about those

or it could have just been so resource intensive for there otherwise far less resource rich planet that its gonna take them another 100 to 200 years to rebuild a proper invansion fleet.

@@housewilma4904 Yea

I wonder what would the effects of the Martian landing in United States instead would be. Would the United States be able to hold against the Martians? Or would the United States be destroyed instead?

@@1mol831 It’d probably be a Germany situation. American nationalism hits hard.

@@averyjdzick but how many Americans would perish in the face of Martians?

@@1mol831 at least like 2

@@1mol831 1913 USA? It would be completely destroyed, they only had less than 1/10th of the strength of the French or German armies, and they got destroyed by the Martians.

This will surely affect the price of tools!

this will drastically affect fishing season

@@domish5 This will have a severe impact on the trout population

*the british

jesus comesback to start the apocalypse: "but how will this effect the economy?"

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@Mohamed Ahmed Somalia profile picture? 🇸🇴

I think that’s a far more interesting scenario than this video tbh.

@@VOTE_REFORM_UK Agreed, this scenario is kinda meh, the author was more concerned about having the results parallel our own timeline rather than presenting a compelling & comprehensive look into how the scenario would actually play out. Martians being stopped before reaching Paris or St. Petersburg? The Suez canal holding out where larger Egyptian cities didn't? Yeah, I like this other take better already.

@@bustavonnutz it is said the aliens aren’t trying to achieve victory and the invasion is more of a resource thing from a dying empire trying to survive. But I do agree that the Suez not falling is unrealistic as the aliens are implied to have done some research on earth before invading and yet they didn’t take the most important piece to global trade

Co-operation with different groups isnt built into us and requires us to be socially emgineered naturally or artificially and/or heavily policed for that to occur. This helps reduce the amount of "fat" that accumulates in every species, so that a new and "better" humanity is constantly being forged. (better in this context meaning more likely to survive)

I mean when both of your existence is doomed if another one is still existing your way more likely to work together then if neither of your existences are doomed but working together might lead to the betterment of both. Human nature is selfish but we’re not stupid.

Fighting united against a common enemy does seem pretty cooperative to me.

@@dead2memes2oof85 yeah they do be making it look like its that terrible when these people are faced with ultimate extinction but like had they arrived about 30 or 100 years theyd be dead by the sheer power that we hold in compare to these 1913 guys who had little and was inexperienced.

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Suddenly macarthur "NUKE 'EM"

​@@averagecustodes2562 nuke'em No Nuke'em No Ah cmon You're fired

That was actually the plot point in the Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2.

I guess I should read this comment before I added my own.😂😂

Yet again apparently they haven't figured out what air travel is... initially

They'd only come back after creating far more capable tech

@@lmul1441 But humanity would be ready this time

But maybe other aliens would come?

@@1mol831 possibly….

@@Voidmaster999 maybe mecha-aliens. They could be immune to human disease due to being fully automated.

When was that?

That’s the basis for this video.

I also really want a 1940 amd modern version. If these men from a hundred years ago proved to be a threat to the martians then no way theyll be able to go against a major nation from ww2 much less modern. Tech really is kinda amazing.

​@moedictatornoriega8475 that's just the hoi4 war of the worlds mod where the radio broadcast in 1938 was actually real

Alien secret invasion during the cold war, aliens infiltrate government's secretly, but it's eventually found out forcing the US and USSR to begrudgingly work together, but both the US and USSR are also spying and trying to one up each other at the same time hindering their ability to find the aliens spies.

Aahh humans

Humans will perhaps always remain societally inferior to an intelligent alien species if we remain divided into nation-states. By comparison, most sci-fi aliens have ascended beyond such a state.

There's only one way to get good at killing aliens: practice

@@Tex-ly1zv People from the Balkans when they hear their neighbor say something funny: 💀💀☠☠

Truth, but look at the soviet Union and the USA. Soon as the Nazis were beat, they went back to hating each other even more enthusiastically than before

I've read a soviet "spinoff" where a British officer starts to collude with Martians, of course it was 90% propaganda but rather funny. Like, there's a part where they keep him in a tripod net with other prisoners, and he starts signaling martians to eat that other guy after learning he's in a workers union xd

@@sanyaskillpro Sounds hilarious.

I also heard of one version, they mention it on wikipedia. were thomas edison re-creates a spaceships and goes on to conquer the Aliens. Surprisingly, it was not written by Thomas Edison, and it 's one of the earliest examples of Fanfic that I've heard of

@@ChupacabraRex Wikipedia is completely unreliable *at best* but the followup fallout of the alien invasion *does* naturally contain that sort of effect; if anything: these creatures were *really remarkably inept* at understanding what their foes would do, and seeing as they provided *no* medicines for their troops, it stands to reason that an alien clerk in their government would logically get jittery at the idea of the mismanaged operation: as now their victims know *precisely* that they're out there, and that these victims of theirs will be coming for them- humanity has a genius to itself for one type of warfare: genocide; a trait second-to-none, and anyone *stupid* enough to attack our civilians is really going to be killed off, especially if the one who does so is immortal; then it falls immediately upon everyone with that trait, and anyone who's had any kind of immortality will be killed off for having been given that trait- it is the trait itself that has to die in that kind of case, and we *will* carry out that campaign, regardless of the cost. Now I *did* some years ago come across a few "WotW fanfics" on fanfiction.net some time ago; and one in particular was *actually quite proper to read and very good*, it was titled "Closer to Them" and actually from the point of view of an alien soldier in their tripods in the 2005 movieverse. Course therein their government so badly messed up the arranging of their troops equipment that they're a joke at their own expense and will be literally killed off by their intended victims for their attack.

@@ChupacabraRex Yeah, there're fanfics of it, ironically I believe that "Ben Hur" actually has your reference beat by at least a few decades though., and its author, Lew Wallace, Union General being the author of that work, yet it was legally sold, as the source material had many centuries before entered the public domain; as well as international legality makes it questionable about enforcement, but he did follow the necessary principles for making it legit in the current copyright holder's eyes.

I might create a scenario where the Martians try invading again some time in the 1980s, but don't hold your breath.

@@firelordmarklin6166 Martians attack in 1980s and get nuked off the face of the earth. Due to martian attacks earth is mostly more unified and all focus is on space warfare. In the 2020s the first earth attack on mars would happen with Grand General Elon Musk leading the fleet. Mars would fight off the attack and a perpetual war and space arms race would go on for hundreds of years until we beat the martians and make them go extinct then make mars a human colony. When the humans on mars become a different subspecies a new war will start, but thats in another episode.

@@firelordmarklin6166 ngl itd be interesting if the humans built rockets and found the martians spying on them, just an idea

@@firelordmarklin6166 and then die to bacteria again

@@firelordmarklin6166 holding

90% of Germany and Austria dead, the neatherlands and poles lost a similar amount, Russia alone probable lost 20-30 million. I’m guessing 100-150 million dead, then another 100 million from the plague. Or 7.4 percent of 1914 population. 250 million dead is low end, not fully taking into count the Middle East, Africa and India. All of Persia gone too.

⁠@@Bobbyjimmytimthey said only 20 million died in this scenario

Even if hitler lived, EVEN if he became the leader of germany and started a WWII in a sucked to the core world and that’s a big if Hitler’s army would have a total manpower of 6 germans and a sausage factory in Tanganika

@@Jerry-tg7zx Heh, true that, the writer almost wiped out Germany In this timeline. If they don't get colonized by their neighbours, they are going to be in recovery mode for centuries.

@@buzter8135 Amen 🙏

True

Even if he lived the would probably be a much different person. Targeting his hate towards the martians.

he said the soldiers were inexpirience and directly stated how theodore roosevelt was very experienced doe

The logic is evident on a galactic scale 😂

migono?

They'd have been lamb-blasted, I don't think there'd be much of a diaspora post-war, if you think the Germans had it bad in this scenario, what your proposing would blow it out of the water.

@@buzter8135 Given that the Martians have demonstrated a persistent inability to cross large bodies of water, I thought this would be an interesting scenario for both. Because the British fleet would have been (most likely) destroyed and no other power at the time had a fleet anywhere near as powerful (and necessary) to cross the channel.

@@RealCodreX It sound's pretty bleak for the humans in this scenario with the Royal Navy crippled the martians would have the chance to attain naval superiority.

They didn't land on an island on purpose, their entire strategy relied on material gathering so they had to land on a continent with a lot of it and they HAD to land in one of the strongest nations so that they could wipe it out quick and then take their time plucking up resources. They could have gone after America but we weren't densely populated so it didn't seem like we were anywhere near as much of a threat, on top of that they needed a place where it was easy to travel to grab more resources without having to go far, and most of the resources in the US are pretty far apart

@@RealCodreX That isn't true at all, German Navy was just as massive and arguably even more powerful

They also do a landing on Venus.

​​@@Fridaey13txhOktoberthe hell they gonna do there sunbathe? Itd be better to land on the sun than venus lmfao

@@halfpace1462bro what if we gonna see a Martian tripod attacking the sun

The martians better not park their vehicles in ulster unless they want to get a good dose of *a little bit of trolling*

it isnt a parallel to our history it's basic common sense, soldiers generally do not know what they are fighting for and their superiors usually dont tell them because it isn't their job to care

1898 Tech was not too different from 1913

@pootis how is that funny

@@submarine6410 Dont underestimate that the first 10 years of the 20th century were a huge jump in tech and distribution. For example in those ten years about 60% of major cities in Germany were got electricity for the first time.

@@vHindenburg , in terms of military, nothing major changed, similar guns, im mean sure dreadnought were invented, but they are just bigger versions of existing warships. I suspose gas was invented but other than that, tech was relatively similar

@@submarine6410 Dreadnought, Submarines, Technically Aircraft carriers. The upgrade from 12" Blackpowder guns to 14-15" which use a far more potent propellant, more modern Railways, 1914 portable radios were already available and 1916 already in use in aircraft. That is a similar jump in tech like from 1998-2013 think on what happened in that time frame. The changes at the beginning of the 20th century were massive, look on how a car looked in 1898 and one in 1906 (Namely Renault). There are a lot of examples. And a lot will just stay under the radar, because a lot of changes happened in medicine and chemistry, which are not imedeatly apparent.

Atlantis probably did exist but wasnt an advanced utopia or some shit like that It was probably some west iberian or west north african town or island which got flooded and destroyed during the end of the last ice and younger dryas. Kinda suspicious how all cultures have a flood myth and theres evidence of a major flood, everywhere around the end of the last ice age. I do think atlantis was much more advanced then any civilization to come in the next 13000 years though. IMO we prob technologically surpass the atlantians around the invention of gundpowder and guns. It wouldnt matter though because atlantis if it existed around the time of the romans it'd just get overrun by roman legionarries even with more advanced technologies. Then the romans would reverse engineer the technology but the guys who reverse engineered it would be killed by the emperor unless the emperor was one of the good emperors.

That sounds cool

They probably would as Stalin only just bearly won due to the absolute destruction of the civil war, if that was avoided Russia would’ve industrialized much quicker

@@EndoClaw maybe

Go and watch The Great Martian War 1913 - 1917

I wonder what would happen if the Martians landed in the United States? Would the United States be able to hold or would it destroy USA industry? Would Europeans help USA?

@@1mol831 I would think they would just by proxy of Canada being the next door neighbor of the US and Canada still being firmly in the British Empire at that point

@@clarkstrange2142 Aliens though.

@@1mol831 if the US was bold enough to send troops and supplies in this timeline where the conflict was an ocean away, it makes sense that Britain and her allies in Europe would send aid and soldiers if the Martians landed so close to its territory

There's a few settings were is stated that if there's one understanding beetwen the humans and the aliens is that nukes and mass destruction weappons are out of the question. The aliens dont glass the planet from orbit because they want it and if they were to use mass destruction devices they know humans have a kill switch in the form of nuclear self anihilation wich would waste al of the martians work and hoppes for the planet. So if humans just were to be nuking the aliens clean off or knocking ships in space with nukes they would be forcing the alines hand to use their own mass destruction means and everyone looses

Civilian casualties & fallout to other areas without Martian’s:

The're also the problem that the orignal book was written in 1897 so the author could have not even the slightestidea of wat nukes were.

@@CASA-dy4vs Sure, but they'd still be better than becoming slaves forever

@@ChupacabraRex good point

stupid reasoning. also, the joke doesn’t even make sense. italy never switched sides, it merely suffered a civil war.

@@levthemapperxd 🤓

The Alps - not too friendly as a terrain type to these behemoths.

Do YOU want to be the one that violates Swiss neutrality? Good point on Austria and France though

Well they were already in the ascendancy so my guess is more of the status quo.

Ay, the only space technology we know of them is the falling star. We don't know if they can even make a stable space station, much less an orbital supercannon

@@jsw973Not to mention that one of their best weapons, being the Heron, despite having cool antimatter shields, sucks at aiming its plasma cannons.

You could just do tactical landings and assign each unit to a type of terrain to quickly adapt, that’s basically how the combine took over earth in 7 hours

Infertile & toxic for how long? These have been poisoned by alien poisons…for all we know they are the equivalent of Fly spray, completely lethal in an area, but for a staggeringly short period.

They have African colonies and in Asia. There's a reason why the great war aka ww1 spread to Asia, and Africa.