(May 15, 2015 at 9:25 am)TRJF Wrote:The ancients didn't have a clue as to what stars really are. They thought that they were just tiny points of light so when they saw meteors streaking through the night skythey thought that they were really seeing stars falling to the Earth because the apparent sizes are very similar. Since the meteors didn't cause any real damage the ancients thought thata third of them could fall to the Earth without any problem. They didn't consider the Sun to be such a star.(May 15, 2015 at 9:06 am)dyresand Wrote: You do realize if all the mass in the universe would to fall from the sky everyone would already be dead depending on where they fall. If they simply shift position as in the sun just moves away or even has its orbit shifted causing it to leave the solar system all life is dead. If the sun decides to crash into the earth we would be dead before that. Anyways for all the stars to fall out the sky to be a thing its not possible.
Yeah... stars falling from the sky onto earth is like talking about bowling pins rushing through space, hitting a bowling ball, and scattering about. Maybe technically true if there's no absolute frame of reference, but, in common parlance, the scale's all wrong...
Even today people refer to "shooting stars" or "falling stars". So overall people aren't much more advanced than cavemen in that regard.
