Extraterrestrial
Physicist claims Mars was attacked by nukes
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T.K. RandallNovember 26, 2014 ·
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Brandenburg believes Mars was attacked by nukes. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A controversial paper by Dr John Brandenburg claims that life on Mars was wiped out by a nuclear attack.
The idea that a civilization on the planet Mars was once decimated by a nuclear strike orchestrated by an advanced extraterrestrial race sounds like the plot of a science fiction movie, yet in a bizarre new paper plasma physicist Dr John Brandenburg has proposed that this scenario may have actually taken place.
The propulsion technologies expert maintains that entities hostile to "young, noisy civilizations" may have taken exception to the planet's inhabitants and could do the same to us here on Earth.
His research, which is entitled
"Evidence of a Massive Thermonuclear Explosion on Mars in the Past, The Cydonian Hypothesis and Fermi's Paradox," bases the claim on a combination of factors including the composition of the planet's soil and the discovery of large concentrations of Xenon-129 in its atmosphere, something typically seen following a nuclear incident.
"Given the large amount of nuclear isotopes in Mars atmosphere resembling those from hydrogen bomb tests on Earth, Mars may present an example of civilization wiped out by a nuclear attack from space," Brandenburg wrote.
"The author therefore advocates that a human mission to Mars is mounted immediately to maximize knowledge of what occurred."
His claims have been met with an understandably high degree of skepticism.
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IB Times |
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