human
At last we have arrived at the boundaries of Martian civilization, exclaimed the doctor.
gpt
We will rest here and test the atmosphere; and if it permits us, we will then venture forth to measure our skill and knowledge against this race of builders. I hazard a guess that we will excel them in many things, for they are apparently only at the perfection of their Stone Age, while we finished that long ago, and have since passed through the Ages of Iron and of Steam, and are now at the dawn of the Era of Magnetism and Gravitation. Our minds are more fertile and elastic, for with this little movable telescope we probably obtain better results than they have done with their years of toiling calculation and patient building.
human
You will be sadly disappointed if they so far excel us that they eat us up at two mouthfuls, said I.
gpt
As they move about yonder, they impress me as being full of power.
human
They are as sluggish as elephants, he replied.
gpt
We are certainly more rapid in thought and action, and it is highly probable that we shall excel them in physical strength, as we have been built for three times as heavy muscular tasks as they.
human
Still, if we cannot make them understand that we come peaceably as friends, they may attempt to kill us as the quickest solution of the question. And they are a whole race against two of us,
gpt
Unless they are a very intelligent and magnanimous race, they will probably attempt to take us prisoners, he answered.
human
It is the mark of an enlightened nation to welcome strangers whose powers are unknown. A primitive race fears everything it does not understand, and force is its only argument against a superior intelligence.