Am I crazy for believing in this?

Question

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/040705olympus-mons.jpg

The Olympis Mons. Some people think I'm crazy for believing that a huge lightning bolt (ones like our ancient ancestors talked about, remember?) struck the planet created those huge mountains that look like volcanoes, but actually aren't. Don't the "craters" look cut out? They're so clean and round and centered on each other:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/050606omcaldera.jpg

I mean... come on! In the electric experiment you see in the first picture, moisture came out of the clay and "sweat" away from the crater.

Anyways, I'm just trying to get somebody new to see it too and maybe get a friend a little bit more convinced.

Answer 1

Not crazy, but misinformed. Experiments with high-speed projecties hitting surfaces shows that they tend to create nice, round craters even if they hit at an angle. (Try throwing rocks into a sand box.) This is a completely separate issue from Olympus Mons and other volcanoes seen on Mars, Venus, Io, and so on. These volcanic peaks look very much like volcanoes on earth, including the cracking of the ground around the base of the volcano from stress and evidence of lava flows onto the surrounding plains. The evidence for the craters being caused by impacts and the mountains actually being volcanoes is pretty good. But keep thinking out of the box--that's the way new discoveries are made!

Answer 2

they are all caused by things hitting the surface, and from the original event that created the moon anyway. There is no atmosphere, hence no lightening, no water, no clouds, no weather, the only wind is solar wind.

Answer 3

Not my field of expertise, but if you have legitimate evidence supporting the theory, you are not crazy, but simply have an alternative interpretation of the data.

Answer 4

Yes you are crazy, very crazy, crazy like a Fox!

Answer 5

we call them meteors in the world of common sense

Answer 6

yup

Answer 7

No.