[js1138]

Sounds a bit like Velikovsky...

Not if you pay full attention to what Velokovsky says.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Thanks for the spell check. I read the guy 40 years ago-roughly.Just remember the impression i.e. Venus moving around etc. It was catatrophism though.Then we have Alvarez with his comet strike wiping out the dinosaurs-If I remember correctly. At any rate I wonder if this interest tells us more about the psyche of scientists than about reality. Just a thought.