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originally posted by: FarleyWayne
I believe that you can find an interview of Dr. Brandenburg in the following link:
Coast to Coast - Mars Special - Date: 04-10-14
For some more (heavy-stuff?), checkout the YouTube-Conversation starting at the 1:02:30-(1 hour, 2 minute, 30 second )-Mark.
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OPINION: To Each ... Their Own.
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originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: Realtruth
Sorry to debunk such an exciting claim, but this is not even junk science.
Shame. Good story.
John E. Brandenburg is a plasma physicist at Orbital Technologies in Madison Wisconsin, working on space plasma technologies and space propulsion. He also performed research on the MET(Microwave Electro-Thermal) plasma thruster for space propulsion, Rocket Plume-Regolith Interactions on the Moon and Mars, Vortex theory of Rocket engine design, and Kaluza-Klein theory of Field Unification for purposes of space propulsion. He also performed an architecture study for a Human Mars Mission using solar electric propulsion. Before coming to ORBITEC he was performing research on air plasmas and plasma propulsion at Florida Space Institute. He is a pioneer in creating electrodeless atmospheric pressure plasmas in air using microwaves. Before this he was at The Aerospace Corporation, where one of his duties was as principle investigator of the MET propulsion project. Before coming to Aerospace corporation Dr. Brandenburg was a researcher at Research Support Instruments (RSI) where he specialized in making controlled laboratory plasmas for uses ranging from air plasmas for surface sterilization , Fusion research and the MET thruster. He also worked as an independent consultant on Space Missile Defense, Directed Energy Weapons, and space rocket plume phenomenology, and also at Mission Research Corporation and Sandia National Laboratories on plasmas for controlled fusion and similar topics.
Doctor Brandenburg was born in Rouchester Minnesota but grew up in Medford Oregon. He obtained a BA in Physics from Southern Oregon University in Ashland Oregon, home of the Shakespearean Festival. He obtained his MS in Applied Science at University of California at Davis and his PhD in Theoretical Plasma Physics at the UC Davis extension campus at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore California. The Title of his Thesis was “A Theoretical Model of a Reversed Field Ion Layer Made of Monoenergetic Ions” and dealt with the magnetic confinement of plasmas for controlled nuclear fusion. Inspired by the Apollo missions to choose a career in Physics he has always been an avid fan of space exploration and science fiction. He is the author the “Dead Mars, Dying Earth”(1999) with Monica Rix Paxson , ( see Amazon.com) which dealt with the problems of energy and global warming from a comparative planetary science ( Earth-Mars) perspective and has been published the USA, Great Britain, Germany and Japan. It was the winner of the Silver Medal in the Ben Franklin awards for books on science and environment. He has published two science fiction novels: “Asteroid 20-2012 Sepulveda” and its sequel “Morningstar Pass, The Collapse of the UFO Coverup” ( see Amazon.com for both) under the pen name “Victor Norgarde” these deal with the problems of living in the real cosmos and initial contact between humanity and extraterrestrial intelligence.
originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: Realtruth
It is not against the rules to debunk claims made in the Grey Area forum. Neither is it automatically assumed that claims are bunkum. It's one thing to post in the Grey Area because there's not much evidence for the claim. It's another to post stuff there because you think it probably isn't true.
originally posted by: Realtruth
originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: Realtruth
It is not against the rules to debunk claims made in the Grey Area forum. Neither is it automatically assumed that claims are bunkum. It's one thing to post in the Grey Area because there's not much evidence for the claim. It's another to post stuff there because you think it probably isn't true.
Debunk away.
That's what ATS is about, but imo it's hard to debunk any of this in the first place.
Anyone can take facts and skew them to meet their own agenda's and fantasy world. Religion and politics do it everyday, why not science too?
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: smurfy
A natural nuclear explosion also?
Thats my postulation. If elements that are radioactive are discovered in boundry ( layers how do we account for that?
The physicists have all claimed that thats impossible and will do so here. They are sure they understand the dynamics of impactors but have yet to measure one directly, except Jupiter.
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Michio Kaku are media darlings, but really, what have they done that no other person holding a doctorate in astrophysics have done?