Brian Cory Dobbs

It's to maximize the fallout.

So we have these radioactive hotspots and we have natural glass indicating a high heat event, which could be the product of electrical discharge for sure.

Yeah, well, if a star exploded nearby, it could have placed a lot of Xenon-129 on Mars, but it also would have placed it everywhere else in the solar system.

And when we measure the Earth and we measure Jupiter, we measure the solar wind, we measure all these meteorites that we get, we don't see any evidence of this elevated spike in Xenon-129.

No, and oh, by the way, if there was a supernova close enough to do that, it just would have destroyed our solar system.

So I don't see how that's even a possibility.

I guess we... I don't think science has any... has identified anything else that could possibly...

I don't know.

I go back and forth on whether or not I think it's just a strange artificial thing or a strange natural thing.

Well, you remember Oppenheimer.

Yeah.

There's this scene with Matt Damon and Killing Murphy where before they run the Trinity test, Matt Damon comes in and he's like,

uh okay so um you know what are the chances that we ignite this thing or we detonate the weapon and it and it kills all life on earth what he's really asking is are will this ignite the atmosphere does this have enough energy to actually start the ignition or fusion itself of the atoms in our atmosphere and they ran the test and fortunately we all survived so it did not um

This all sounds really crazy.

See, I feel like I've got to slow walk people to this.

I can't just say nuclear war on Mars because people think you're crazy.

They ran the test.

Everything was fine.

True.

So they ran the test.