Electric Universe article on Mars for the inquisitive
When I saw what you posted, I had to look up your "member since" date. I was quite surprised at what I found. Whew!
The sole function of the ***Electric Universe model*** is to supply a patina of ***science*** to the kreationist kult.
On my profile page are some photos ....the little image of the yellow colored frame around a pool is actually very misleading as scale goes.
Its a Plasma gantry.....biggy sheets of steel and alloy ..requiring at times..2 50 ton remote control cranes to manuever work material.
Cryogenic and liquid nitrogen gas in banks for cutting operation.
Machine cuts best underwater..but can cut dry..but them the air rips like being near a F-106 Delta Dart.
Even with proper hearing protection..it can be unconfortable to be near.
Job duties also entail X-ray..reading film..Ultrasound frequency study of metal properties.
I understand the principles of *Electric Universe...not hard..seeing the ident at work for many years via my job duties.
Phil V made a rather shallow commment about E.U...being kookville for creationists..
kinda a cheap seats comment in light of realtime data construct.
The author of this article below...
David P Stern
The Io Dynamo
The giant planet Jupiter has four large moons, discovered by Galileo and visible through good binoculars. It has in addition many smaller ones, as well as a narrow ring like Saturn's, observed by the spacecraft Pioneer 11. Of the large moons--comparable to our own moon or bigger--the outer three are icy spheres, but the innermost one, Io, is heated by tides, and as a result has volcanoes and an ionosphere which is a fair conductor of electricity. Jupiter itself like Earth is a magnet, but one that is 20,000 times stronger; as a result it has a large magnetosphere and a very intense radiation belt.
A dynamo is created in a magnetic field by an electric circuit, part of which is moving relative to the rest (additional conditions must also be met). The circuit may consist entirely of fluids (as in sunspots), but solid conductors can also be involved.
The conditions for a dynamo are fulfilled in the case of Io and and Jupiter. Both are conductors, and they move quite differently--Io orbits, Jupiter rotates. Furthermore, the plasma between them conducts electricity very well along its magnetic field lines, which act as if they were wires connecting Io and the planet. One expects a continuous current to flow in this circuit, feeding on Io's orbital energy.
The drawing is not to scale. Actually Io is much smaller. Watchful readers may notice that the north-south magnetic polarity of Jupiter is the reverse of what it is for Earth. They might also note that if the drawing views Jupiter from the Sun's side, Io actually orbits in a direction opposite to that of the arrow. However, the plasma which fills space around it rotates with Jupiter and moves much faster, overtaking Io. Relative to the plasma, therefore, Io moves backwards. The path of the space probe Voyager 1 was designed to check out this dynamo, by flying close to where its currents were expected to flow. It did so on March 5, 1979, and its magnetometer very clearly detected the signature of a current of about a million amperes. Previous to that it was noted that unlike any other moon of Jupiter, Io had a strong influence on radio emissions from Jupiter's magnetosphere, which depended on its position: it could be that the moon's unique electric currents were involved in this.
Postscripts
The Hubble Space Telescope, using its Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, has been photographing auroras of the planet Jupiter. Recent pictures,taken in ultra-violet light, have shown not only rings of aurora around Jupiter's magnetic poles, but also a spot of light, formed where the magnetic field lines of Io reached the surface. Presumably, they represent a special kind of aurora, powered by the electric currents of the Io dynamo. A recent picture shows not only the footprint aurora of Io (which also leaves an auroral "trail" behind it), but also spots of light attributed to auroras formed in a similar manner by Europa and Ganymede, more distant moons of Jupiter