Questions

These are questions whose answer have implications for either the mainstream / electric universe / plasma cosmology / catastrophist arguments. They may relate to many fields. Numbering follows the order of addition, nothing more. Some sources might claim they have an answer (or maybe just a possible answer) to the question.

Geology

1 Does martian dry ice evaporation really carve the rocks below forming Lichtenberg-like cracks?

• Martian “spiders” that resemble a Lichtenberg figure.
• On Martian Spiders, Ice Spiders, the Namibian Desert and Remaining Open-Minded

NASA seems to suggest it does. The mechanism is not detailed at its source, so so far I do not consider the question resolved. On earth, water upwelling from below ice carves Lichtenberg-like figures on the ice as it melts it. That’s not the same as dry ice carving rocks. Spiders are found in other planets and satellites besides Mars and Earth. NASA explanation of course says nothing of earthly spiders. We do know, however, that electrical breakdowns can carve solids with Lichtenberg figures.

If it could not be established that Martian dry ice evaporation can carve rocks like that, then something else did. In Mars and everywhere else. This in fact, relates to a more general subject: the source of dendritic landscapes in general, and whether some of them could not have been produced by erosion alone.