Hey Horton,regarding reply 51.I'v...

Hey Horton,
regarding reply 51.
I've been thinking along similar lines. I've been trying to think of a good way to describe my opinion of at least some of the SOD events. I think it's a static charge of some kind that is moving these grains.

Did you ever have those big bean bag chairs back in the 70's? They were stuffed with small styrofoam spherules (say that 10 times fast!). Anyway these styrofoam balls must have been between 0.5 centimeters and 2 or 3 millimeters in diameter. If you ever had one of these beanbag chairs leak you would find the little balls everywhere around the chair. Many times when you would try to pick them up some of them would move away from your hand because of differential static charges. Any object placed near them might cause them to shift in position.

Perhaps the cameras, RATs, and other tools are making these move because of the close proximity of the equipment and static charge differential.

I'm pretty sure if you used Martian probes to get a microscopic image of beanbag balls resting on a beanbag chair in a cool dry house you would see SOSBs (Self Organizing Styrofoam Balls)