(June 27, 2014 at 5:00 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: If it was true in the past it should still be true today, right?
Depends on the context. There were far more cometary (and other large protoplanetary debris) impacts in the past, because the planets were still being formed and there was considerably more debris to collide. The Solar System now enjoys relative stability, since any object not in a stable orbit has either impacted and/or merged with an existing planet, plummented into the Sun, or been flung out of the system altogether; though objects do still encroach on planeteray orbits and do, on occasion, collide. It's the difference between traffic at rush hour and the same street at night, or a Snooker table at the start of the game compared with the same table towards the end.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
