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human
[War of the Worlds] Did the Martians wipe out all bacteria on their homeworld?

I know it was written in the 19th century but yeah just curious. Like do they have their own equivilant to gut bacteria? Was it all microbes they wiped out or just harmful ones?
gpt
That's the prevailing theory, but no one on Earth knows for sure.

A quote from the book (emphasis added):

>"At any rate, in all the bodies of the Martians that were examined after the war, *no bacteria except those already known as terrestrial species were found*. That they did not bury any of their dead, and the reckless slaughter they perpetrated, point also to an entire ignorance of the putrefactive process. But probable as this seems, it is by no means a proven conclusion."