It's called the z-pinch effect. It is the ability of plasma, when an electrical current runs through it, to compress matter between the double layer. Even non charged matter.
With the same amount of force of compression as a super-nova? Evidence?
You also didn't answer my question of why only iridium would be produced an not any of the other higher order elements.
By the way, for a fun second-term drinking game, chug a beer every time you hear the phrase, "...contentious but futile protest vote by democrats." By the time Jeb Bush is elected president you will be so wasted you wont even notice the war in Syria.
-- Jon Stewart, The Daily Show