Can EU explain this? Rivers and ridges..

[folaht]

I've been having fun with wikimapia and have noticed a lot of lichtenberg figures.
I fact, I noticed three types. Rivers flowing downhill, dendritic ridges and chasms/canyons/whatever they're called.


The picture below, I understand. Water vaporates in oceans, become clouds, clouds wander, land on top of mountains, become snow ,snow melts in spring, streams form, streams gather until they flow into the main river.

http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... irefox.png

I assume this could happen even on a really large scale.

http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-Wikim ... fox-14.png

The main river then makes a merry path until it finally reaches the ocean where it can evaporate again.

http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... irefox.png

And wherever these rivers flow, they colour the land green.

http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... irefox.png
http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... irefox.png

But that's unrelated to my question.
Now, there are also dendretic ridges..

http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... irefox.png

and canyons..

http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... irefox.png

making it a bit confusing for me to see which is which.


So here is my main question.
Perhaps it's optical illusion, (ridges and valleys look so much alike, as well as rivers, snow and roads look alike)
but to me the following pictures show rivers flowing on top of mountain ridges, or ridges that are directly connected to them, or there's a valley
right smack in the middle of where one would expect the main ridge.
What are rivers doing in in the middle of mountain ridges?

http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... irefox.png
http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... irefox.png
http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... irefox.png
http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... efox-1.png
http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... irefox.png
http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... irefox.png
http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... efox-1.png
http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... irefox.png
http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... irefox.png
http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... irefox.png



Question #2
Correct me if there are, but why are there no dendritic mountains on mars or any other planet in our solar system?

Not just complete mountain ranges, but even simple ones like these:

http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... irefox.png
http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... irefox.png
http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... irefox.png

Question #3
The reason I searched wikimapia, looking for electric scars in and around the tunguska. Are these rivers or ridges?

http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... irefox.png
http://phoca.nl.eu.org/Screenshot-WikiM ... efox-1.png

[bboyer]

Sorry, sluimers, but I had to remove all the [img] tags from your post as it was taking forever to display - even on my turbo-speed broadband connection. Could be with the service hosting your snapshots or that the snapshots are just simply huge multi-megabyte monsters, not sure. Could be that you need to optimize your snapshots? Also, in order to use the [img] tags for the Thunderbolts forums, image dimensions should be no larger than 800 pixels x 600 pixels. You can, of course, link to an external image of any size and dimension.

EDIT: I checked the file size of your first image and it was just under 2.4 megabytes in file-size. Assuming each of the pics of your post were about the same then your post would have taken 50+ megabytes transferred from the external server you were linking to in order to display - each time it would be displayed. In other words, a huge amount of transfer bandwidth considering the total transfer transaction would be occurring between our service, their service, and the viewer/user's service each time the thread is clicked on by anyone for display (depending, of course, on cache settings).

[folaht]

Ah, that's my fault. I had no idea it would be that bad. It's both really . At least I think it is. As the service hosting my snapshots is my server computer with a free domain name (not sure if that slows things down severely) and the pictures are saved in .png (I know this does though).
I'll try optimizing the pictures.

[cbc]

These are some really cool pictures:
Thanks for the effort.

They do appear to be ridges, and fractal Lichtenberg figures to boot.

This universe is truely wild.

My only possible attempt at an answer is that the global catastrophe that befell Mars, did not reproduce the same electrical scarring on each planet.

Current direction, distances, pressures and many other possible combinations could result in different discharge reactions

[Z-axis]

Lichtenberg figures and other characteristics of electricity appear in nature in almost every aspect of life and for that matter, in all the forms of matter (plasma, gas, liquid & solid).

Beyond the ones you mentioned (“Rivers flowing downhill, dendritic ridges and chasms/canyons/whatever they're called”), Lichtenberg figures are very noticeable elsewhere. Blood vessels and nerves. The way the lungs are constructed. Plants also demonstrate this feature. The veins in leaves, tree roots, limbs and braches; and many others.

If you think about how a tree looks totally out of the soil, you have the Lichtenberg figures at both ends. But step back a bit further and I see a cross-section of a “Spindle Torus”. Cut an apple in half vertically and you have a perfect representation of a “Spindle Torus”. The Spindle Torus being the accepted cross-sectional view of a star’s magnetic field, our planet’s magnetic field, a Spheromak and so on, up and down the scalability of electricity.
Isn’t it wonderful how the structure of DNA looks surprisingly like twin Birkland currents?

So what am I saying? The more I get into the “Electric Universe Theory”, I have begun seeing the world in a whole new way. Assuming the theory is correct (or at the least, getting closer to the truth) and plasma effects are scalable to a very large degree (Macro, micro and sub-atomic), it is not that surprising to see how electricity tends to manifest and represent itself in our three dimensions. The vortex. The hexagonal forms. All of it.

Z-axis (Tim)

Spindle Torus:
http://www.math.brown.edu/TFBCON2003/ar ... rus-3.html

[Steve Smith]

Your eyes are playing tricks on you. Flip each image vertically and the optical illusion will disappear. The "rivers on ridges" are rivers in valleys. However, the fact that the rivers often cut right through some ridges as if they aren't even there is a sign that the river adopted a channel that was already carved into the surface.

Rivers That Cut Through Mountains: Evidence for Superimposed Stream Systems in the Rockies

See: The Siberian Traps