Dec 12, 2011 steve smith In previous Thunderbolts Picture of the Day articles about comets, we predicted that they are not the icy slush and primordial elements that conventional science describes, but are recent denizens of the Solar System. As we have further suggested, comets could be debris that was hoisted into space by the electrostatic force of interplanetary plasma discharges. Such a violent catastrophe might also have stripped millions of tons of rock from the surface of another planet, such as Mars. The electrical activity could then have projected a stream of ionized dust along the axes of gigantic Birkeland currents toward the closest node in the circuit, whereupon it would have been deposited in a process akin to cathode sputtering. That second node i n the circuit was Earth, according to some Electric Universe theorists.