Interesting material on the scars of mars posting as well as your question here on electrical discharges.Have you read Immanuel Velikovsky’s book titled Worlds In Collision. I think its unfortunate that the astronomical community completely dismissed his work as nonsense. Carl Sagan also discredited his works but I find too much of what he claims more plausible than most so-called experts are putting forth today on the history of Mars. http://www.knowledge.co.uk/velikovsky/
James McCanney’s publication “Planet-X, Comets & Earth Changes” discusses the electrical nature of the solar system which also supports the Venus/Mars connection. A fascinating read.
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This post may be a bit far-reached, but I have been seriously wondering about the many bits of evidence that members and other web-sites are posting based in and around craters on the Moon and Mars.
My thoughts have centered around the possibility of Plasma Generators as power supplies on the Moon and Mars. Lets assume a solar flare or some other catastrophe like a near-collission with another celestial body created a surge that caused all of the generators to explode at roughly the same time. These generators would be in factories and homes scattered across the surfaces of these bodies. As they explode (and depending on their size) they would create a crater as well as the debris we are seeing in the images.
Far-fetched ? Maybe, but then I found this interesting article.
Excerpt below;
Joseph Priestley, in 1766, was the first to observe cathode cratering and to compare the craters to those on the Moon. He noted their circular, ringed patterns. Robert Dietz, in 1963, suggested that the explosion from a lightning bolt might create shocked minerals near craters in a manner similar to that thought to occur from meteorite impacts. However, he was unwilling to flout convention and contemplate lightning bolts in space. The Englishman, Brian Ford, proposed in 1965 to the British Interplanetary Society that plasma discharge effects early in the Moon's history formed its many craters. He suggested that the Moon may have been more closely coupled electrically to the Earth's magnetosphere in that early epoch. Like Priestley, he used a spark-machining apparatus and demonstrated parallels between the laboratory craters and lunar craters. He reproduced the crater circularity—some, but not all, with central peaks—and the tendency for small craters to impinge on the rims of larger craters, but not the reverse.
Plasma physicists have endorsed the wide scalability of electrical phenomena. It offers simple laboratory tests of the theory of electrical cratering of celestial bodies. Electrical cratering has an explosive aspect but unlike an explosion it has precursor surface effects such as an electric wind that causes surface cleaning, and cold-cathode disruption to produce extensive crater chains, rilles and rays. Also, an electric arc, once established, may last long enough to produce many peculiar effects that are diagnostic.
Meanwhile, no one has found the source of the impactors that are supposed to have sculpted the surfaces of solid bodies in the solar system billions of years ago. No one has witnessed such an impact (Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 didn't hit a solid surface). And no one has come up with convincing experimental tests of the impact theory.
The rest of this very interesting article can be viewed at
I am not a scientist and I know nothing about plasma or generators or electrical discharges so this really is just pure speculation on my part to explain why there would be so much debris centred in and around craters. It just makes more sense to me that an explosion of a local power source would create the debris we are seeing and possibly not even destroy all of the structures whereas a meteor impact would be far more destructive ?
I must add that the link that Xenon posted on the Exopolitics Summit under the Alien Heading where Bob Dean relates a story of a supposed secret base near Las Vegas where alien scientists are assisting the goverment with plasma energy technology sparked this train of thought....
-- Edited by Chandre on Saturday 5th of September 2009 06:30:01 AM