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wildbilln864

(13,382 posts) Tue Dec 16, 2014, 04:56 PM Dec 2014

Nuclear Attack From Aliens Eradicated Life On Mars, Physicist Claims

Stumbled across this and was interested in you guys' opinions of it.

The ancient life on Mars was eradicated by aliens armed with nuclear weapons, plasma physicist and an expert in propulsion technologies Dr John Brandenburg believes. He therefore warns that a nuclear attack of this kind will also happen on Earth.

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Nuclear Attack From Aliens Eradicated Life On Mars, Physicist Claims (Original Post) wildbilln864 Dec 2014 OP

Elsewhere he claims it was an asteroid ... GeorgeGist Dec 2014 #1

interesting. thanks. n/t wildbilln864 Dec 2014 #3

... PoliticAverse Dec 2014 #2

Even a PhD won't protect someone from mental illness. nt hack89 Dec 2014 #4

lol! n/t wildbilln864 Dec 2014 #5

Aliens to Mars? Or indigenous Martian aliens? jberryhill Dec 2014 #6

GeorgeGist

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1. Elsewhere he claims it was an asteroid ...

Reply to wildbilln864 (Original post)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 05:18 PM

Dec 2014

His latest scientific book: “Life and Death on Mars: The New Mars Synthesis” is in press and deals with the evidence that a large asteroid impact on Mars late in its geologic history may have collapsed a persistent greenhouse regime on that planet, and that such a climatic collapse may have triggered a mass extinction of life there.http://www.astroreview.com/author/john-e-brandenburg-ph-d