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A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

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‘As seen in numerous counterparts on<br />

Mars, the depressions <strong>of</strong> Labyrinthus<br />

Noctis appear as complexes <strong>of</strong> crater<br />

chains and flat valleys, cut by the same<br />

force that created the overlapping craters<br />

elsewhere on Mars. The surface areas<br />

untouched by the arc thus remain as buttes<br />

and surrounding plains above scalloped<br />

cliffs. The smooth surfaces above the<br />

valleys show no evidence <strong>of</strong> rifting or <strong>of</strong><br />

the supposed stresses that are claimed to<br />

have ‘torn’ the surface, just a complex <strong>of</strong><br />

even more shallow, flat-bottomed and <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

parallel grooves, a recognized signature <strong>of</strong><br />

electric arcing.’<br />

Rilles: These surface gouges are to be seen all over Mars, Mercury and the Moon. They are also found on other<br />

moons around planets in the solar system including Ariel, Titania, Miranda, Triton, Enceladus and others, where<br />

in every case the surfaces <strong>of</strong> these bodies seem again to have been subjected to the effects <strong>of</strong> electric discharge.<br />

There is an abundance <strong>of</strong> TPOD articles available on the thunderbolts project website at www.thunderbolts.<br />

info that describe in very readable detail examples <strong>of</strong> the types <strong>of</strong> surface markings on solar system objects to<br />

which I am referring here. I leave these to your own further studies and will concentrate now on the rilles to be<br />

found on Mars.<br />

If you dig the tip <strong>of</strong> a spoon into ice-cream<br />

and draw it along to scoop out a channel<br />

then you have formed the same simple<br />

shape that a rille has. However, the real<br />

thing would <strong>of</strong> course have its dimensions<br />

<strong>of</strong> length and depth in kilometres. You<br />

would also note that no debris is left lying<br />

around the edges <strong>of</strong> the gouge because you<br />

cleanly removed that tasty ‘material’.<br />

Phoenicis Laqcus Rille on Mars<br />

Credit ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)<br />

15 | The <strong>Electric</strong> <strong>Universe</strong> answers I see<br />

Labyrinthus Noctis on Mars - Credit NASA/JPL

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