Answer:
The options:
O
A. PHILLIPS: Can you tell us the meaning of that scraping noise
inside the thing?
PIERSON: Possibly the unequal cooling of its surface.
O
B. PHILLIPS: Good heavens, something's wriggling out of the shadow
like a gray snake. Now it's another one, and another. They look like
tentacles to me. There, I can see the thing's body. It's large, large
as a bear and it glistens like wet leather.
C. PIERSON: I can give you no authoritative information - either as
to their nature, their origin, or their purposes here on earth. Of their
destructive instrument I might venture some conjectural
explanation. For want of a better term, I shall refer to the
mysterious weapon as a heat ray.
D. PHILLIPS: Then you're quite convinced as a scientist that living
intelligence as we know it does not exist on Mars?
PIERSON: I'd say the chances against it are a thousand to one!
The CORRECT ANSWER IS D.
D. PHILLIPS: Then you're quite convinced as a scientist that living
intelligence as we know it does not exist on Mars?
PIERSON: I'd say the chances against it are a thousand to one!
Explanation:
The conversation admist Phillips and Pierson, where Phillips enquired of him if he was sincerely assured as a researcher that living intelligence from our knowledge it's absent on Mars and he replied very confidently: "the chances against it are a thousand to one." Human vanity is expressed as Pierson assumes that the separate worlds in space were not Standard to that of Earth and never assumed the human being can come into danger from them.
The basic means in which H. G. Wells speaks of the theme of human vanity is by expressing how a lay man on Earth do consider the different planets. He expressed that the world was not set for the upset or war since individuals were too minded of this planet, and will not assume that intelligent beings are found elsewhere away from Earth. This implies the vanity of humans that led to their fall.
