The communtiy which builds Ion drive engines for satillites..does the math for explorers like Voyager and Galilleo..that see out there..bring us the amazing images from Hubble are amazing,
Yet..there is this penchant to forward uniformity concepts that troubles me..that we should accept, that all the planets are with us since they were formed..that they all still circle as they did so very long ago.
Yet Venus has a near circular orbit..her atmosphere is rancid toxic..her surface flowing in discharges from within.
Her rotation is wrong for her local..coupled with the orbital path.
One guy who is ex JPL..comments that Venus looks like it is cooling off..either it got really hot from some force..or it got hot during transit thru our system..and is a recent capture as time goes.
I struggle at times to find good word definitions for concepts..but have read others comments that we should not have a moon so big as a sojourner with us...the math does not fit..comment from a man who does the astrophysical math thingy...[sorry,its a past read..do not have his name as ref today]
The wondrous things we discover..the wonders we are peeking into...yet the same crowd slams Velikovsky as a loon..and tells us everything is as it was so long ago.
NRRRRRRRRRR!....I don't buy it.
About the only thing Velikovsky got right is that something really big was going on in the Eastern Mediterranean at one time. (It was the volcanic eruption of Thera/Santorini.)