For sure, Jaze...I don't think you're crazy at all. There have clearly been a number of huge past events in our solar system which have seriously affected this planet and its neighbours. Such an event caused the Great Flood. Another probably wiped out the dinosaurs. Another occured around the time of Exodus and the plagues in Egypt.

There have been numerous reversals of the magnetic pole of the Earth, caused by some factor as yet unexplained. There may also have been physical shifts of the planet on its axis, causing the poles to be relocated, old icecaps to melt, and new ones to form. There is your ice age...a result of a physical planetary shift rather than a slow change in the weather.

At least one very good film was made around a huge planetary event...Deep Impact. Things like this have almost certainly happened in the past and will again in the future.

They may even happen on a regular, cyclical nature, if there is a body, such as a comet or other large object, which has a long elliptical orbit and returns to our solar system periodically.

In fact, that could be Nature's way of cleaning itself up every few thousand years, if all else fails! We certainly don't appear to be willing to do it on our own.

All this is worthy of investigation, through science and every other means at hand. Forewarned is forearmed.

My feeling about Mars is that it was once a planet with much water, a healthy atmosphere, and abundant life. Some of our own people may have come from it to Earth a very long time ago (when even the continents here were quite different in shape and position than they are now). I can't prove it, it's just a gut feeling.

- LH