http://www.inquisitr.com/1625693/physicist-claims-evidence-ancient-nuclear-explosions-ended-life-on-mars/

Now, I don't see how this is possible, considering the fact that you need to split an atom, but how do you come up with this based on isotopes?

Evidence pls.

There's only one explanation

'An ancient egyptian tier civilisation on mars randomly gets allahu ackbar'd by rampaging space nazis.'

Coming Summer 2017: Call of Duty 22: Space Warfare

I wonder if he compared that abundance of isotopes to another body?

Could it not be those isotopes arrived there via the sun, and Mars, not having a magnetic field to deflect them just sort of collected them over the years.

Still my explanation is half baked as fuck.

Lol

I wonder if he compared that abundance of isotopes to another body?

Could it not be those isotopes arrived there via the sun, and Mars, not having a magnetic field to deflect them just sort of collected them over the years.

Still my explanation is half baked as fuck.

I was thinking along those lines as well.

Essentially there should be more Carbon-14 in Mar's sedimentary record and atmosphere, because Carbon-14 decays naturally into Nitrogen-14. A weak magnetic field means more cosmic radiation however, so the radiation turns the ¹⁴N back to ¹⁴C.  (Hooray! My Sedimentary Lectures actually applied to something!)

What makes me think this is interesting is that this physicist is stating there's more Uranium and other heavier radioactive elements, but what's doubtful is his source of info on this, and how this possibly could correlate to nuclear explosions. It could be Mars is just richer in these elements on the surface than Earth is, it's just we haven't mined it yet, like we did surface resources here because obviously we can't fucking reach it atm.

Quote from: SexyPiranha on November 21, 2014, 02:41:10 PM

I wonder if he compared that abundance of isotopes to another body?

Could it not be those isotopes arrived there via the sun, and Mars, not having a magnetic field to deflect them just sort of collected them over the years.

Still my explanation is half baked as fuck.

I was thinking along those lines as well.

Essentially there should be more Carbon-14 in Mar's sedimentary record and atmosphere, because Carbon-14 decays naturally into Nitrogen-14. A weak magnetic field means more cosmic radiation however, so the radiation turns the ¹⁴N back to ¹⁴C.  (Hooray! My Sedimentary Lectures actually applied to something!)

What makes me think this is interesting is that this physicist is stating there's more Uranium and other heavier radioactive elements, but what's doubtful is his source of info on this, and how this possibly could correlate to nuclear explosions. It could be Mars is just richer in these elements on the surface than Earth is, it's just we haven't mined it yet, like we did surface resources here because obviously we can't fucking reach it atm.

Yeah, I'd have to do a little more research on radiation and the formation of isotopes of certain elements but I'm fairly certain an explanation involving stellar radiation and abundance from formation is more plausible than a nuclear holocaust on a species living on a planet that has lacked a substantial atmosphere for most of its history.

That is of course if the information of his for there actually being this abundance of isotopes is correct, like you said.

Mother of god, it's like an ancient alien Cold War that went hot. There is only one group of people to blame

Freaking
Space
Commies

DEMOCRACY WILL PREVAIL.

Problem.. I know how devastating nukes are. But wouldn't there be something physical that was left behind. Large piece of a structure that was once part of a building? Or bones? I know that stuff could have been buried by the elements if it happened so long ago.