[SunkenCiv]

Well put.

Shoemaker by Levy
by David H. Levy
(pp 60-61)

In 1950 Worlds in Collision was published, a book that became very popular. Its author, Immanuel Velikovsky, inferred from historical facts and mythology that an unlikely series of comet impacts caused some biblical events, like the Egyptian plagues and the parting of the Red Sea. The details of Velikovsky's ideas were so strongly ridiculed that his theme that impacts have indeed affected the Earth, was clouded and lost.

[Rockingham]

Thanks. I ought to read the book. Gene Shoemaker seems to have been not just a good scientist, but a genuinely good man.