# Can tripods effectively walk?

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**Created:** [September 28, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tripods-effectively-walk/204356 "2003-09-28T20:52:40Z")\
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The martians in Robert Heinlein’s **Red Planet** also “spin” like Clake’s Ramans, IIRC. (presumably the young martians in **Stranger in a Strange Land** do, too, since they’re supposed to be set in essentially the same universe).

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