# Help Finding Martian Image **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-martian-image/159141 "2003-03-05T01:54:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-martian-image/159141/1 "2003-03-05T01:54:16Z")
For reasons known only to myself, I need to find a good image on-line of a “War of the Worlds” Martian war-machine tripod. Specifically, I want one of two scenes from the novel. 1. A tripod stepping aroung the Clock Tower in London (Big Ben) with the Thames empty of everything but wreckage. 2. The ironclad **Thunder Child** taking on the three wading tripods off the Essex coast. Images should be suitable for use as wallpaper. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-martian-image/159141/2 "2003-03-05T02:44:19Z")
Hey, Doc, if you can find an image with the cover of Jeff Wayne’s 1978 album **War of the Worlds** , the cover image is the tripod zapping the Thunder Child. Insice there is a slick with some other artwork, but not the Clock Tower, only a generic London scene. ---
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-martian-image/159141/3 "2003-03-05T02:46:54Z")
Google Image search is good for this type of thing. No _Thunder Child_, but the [first three in this list](http://images.google.com/images?q=martian+tripod++-face+-cydonia&imgsz=xxlarge&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&filter=0) might be like what you are looking for. Or maybe [this one](http://www.railwaybridge.co.uk/images/martian5.jpg) I get a lot of my wallpaper like this. Go to Google\>Image Search\> Advanced Image Search and make sure that you select wallpaper size from the drop-down. ---
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-martian-image/159141/4 "2003-03-05T02:53:07Z")
Picking up on **Mjollnir** ’s suggestion, the best I could find was [this small image](http://www.dprp.vuurwerk.nl/proghistory/images/wowcd.gif) ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-martian-image/159141/5 "2003-03-06T01:27:02Z")
There are scads of images here: [http://drzeus.best.vwh.net/wotw/](http://drzeus.best.vwh.net/wotw/) ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-martian-image/159141/6 "2003-03-06T01:56:32Z")
Thank you all, but those are pretty much what I have found already, and none of the tripods look right. I guess I’ll just have to have something commissioned.