Stick Man Electrically Etches Landscapes

Squatter or stick men are recorded archetypes of worldwide petroglyphs found drawn on ancient cave and cliff walls. In reality, these plasma discharges occurred between a lowered, highly charged ionosphere and electrified raised plateaus. Surface materials were sputtered away to form buttes, pinnacles, and mesas, which are well known in the USA’s Southwest. Unlike normal lightning that occurs in micro-seconds, these Birkland currents sustained themselves for minutes, possibly hours, appearing as gigantic monsters walking across the landscape and destroying everything in their paths. Smaller-scale archetypes can be replicated in scientific plasma laboratories.