"An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him."

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With the collision of the Shoemaker comet into Jupiter, the era of uniformitarian orthodoxy must come to an end. Minds that have been closed for nearly half a millennium can now be opened to see what really has happened to our planet in the past -- and that past is not as distant as we might suppose.

— Vine Deloria Jr.