What did the micro organims have to do with the computers crashing in the war of the worlds movie?

Question

The micro organisms had something to do with the crashing coputers. I need to how and why the crashed the computers.

If you have any knoweledge of earth science what so ever then you would be able to answer this question. My science teach said these micro organisms caused the coputers to crash. He wants us to find oout how they caused the computers to crash. A lot of people did not notice the fact that the micro organisms in the begining of the movie caused the computers to crash. Including me. They would not have showed the scene if it had nothing to do with the movie.

Answer 1

I guess that you're talking about the cars and other devices that stopped working at the beginning, not the aliens dying. This was nothing to do with microorganisms. The aliens caused the strange storm, which sent out an EM pulse. Most electrical items that were turned on at the time would have been fried. This includes computers and car solenoids. This is why replacing the solenoid on the car makes it work, as the spare would not have been connected up to anything when the pulse hit.

If it had been microorganisms, all of the spare parts would also have been junk... they would have ended up infected with the microbes too. We know this isn't true, because the car runs just fine.

As for why, they did it to cause chaos. Though eventually people could set up backup systems to replace the lost computers, it would be too late to get organised against the threat at that point.

Answer 2

It had nothing to do with computers.

Here's what happened:
The aliens, who came from mars, had erradicated disease thousands of years ago on their own planet. So they basically had no immune systems.

Thus, when they got to earth, they got infected with the microorganisms here, and died of earthly diseases.

Answer 3

that movie was so lame