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Dr. John Brandenburg: Confessions of a NASA Space Scientist

Earth Ancients

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The Significance of the Atomic Bomb on Mars

When you start off a hydrogen bomb in mid-air, and like at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they didn't drop the bombs and hit the ground and blow up. So, that's creates maximum shockwaves and fallout that spreads around. Not only that, when you create a big ball of fire like that, it creates nitric acid in the air from the nitrogen and the oxygen and the carbon dioxide. They break up and they form nitric acid, which etches glass. That's the thing. This thing does not look natural at all. There is no natural phenomenon.

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