0 in stories, a human being, especially when talked to or talked about by a creature from another planet
Analysis of their atmosphere might show a great hazard to earthlings, one making it impossible to land or requiring years of research to overcome.
How can we know the actual number of earthlings that are sceptics?
If the God of these earthlings bothers not about them, why should they trouble about God?
It is a bright day, and the Martian is aware of a head-ache brought on by the effort to understand the ways of earthlings, and therefore decides to drive through the city streets.
Later analysis would tell whether earthlings would need oxygen-helmet suits such as we plan to use on the moon.
The disguise could be a way to try to communicate more easily with the earthlings.
A long period of peace has deprived the earthlings of their instinct to wage war.
Earthlings, alone and dying on the toxic planet, began to question the humanity of the colonists.
