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Dr. John Brandenburg: Confessions of a NASA Space Scientist

Earth Ancients

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The Anti-Pode of the Mars Explosion

There's two hotspots of radioactivity in the north of Mars and they're surrounded by this glass called trinitite. And then, if you look down where the shockwaves would have converged when they wrapped around the entire planet and come back and run into each other, there's another hotspot. The instruments are so sensitive that they detected it. So, we have very strong evidence that this occurred.

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