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Aren’t the stars you are supposed to wish upon, shooting stars that die exactly the moment you make your wish, which is the whole point of the exercise?
You know, like one statistically improbable and as such lucky moment in time…
Council of Mages - Official Report on the Wish Catastrophe
(the document is scrawled in a childlike hand, or one that is unused to writing manually. The document is badly smeared with ink and is illegible in many places)
This will likely be the last report of the Council. Many of the members are dead or dying. Suspect anti-magick agents have conducted the Wish To End Wishing. Range of effect unknown but believed general at least to this dimension. Extra-dimensional scrying now impossible (illegible section) impossible to determine. Our palaces will crumble soon to dust, our people soon reduced to scrounging and hunting in the dirt like the mundane creatures of the wood. Most will starve or succumb to disease. Our libraries will decay, all our knowledge will pass into myth, and we will fall into ignorance. There is no repair. My family (This section is smeared and illegible. the smears look intentional)
(illegible) and I will continue our research, if food and shelter can be found, though with no magic whatsoever (illegible section) on survival. Recommend all do similar.
I would wish good luck, but the gesture is now empty. Farewell if you may.
Thanks for the reminder, Mr. Spock.
Now, would you please return to the science station and find out the date of the next meteor shower?
We have a few urgent wishes to place!
If meteors combusting in a planet’s atmosphere had the ability to grant requests to those who view them, I am sure a great many evils on a great many planets would have been solved a long time ago. In my experience, the only thing that can assist in solving a problem is a thorough understanding of its causes and the ingenuity sufficient to devise a solution.
In other words, you will get no assistance from a rock, unless of course that rock happens to be a scientist.
True! But the “brief flash of light” ones are objects burning up in our atmosphere. They can be comets or even artificial objects, but usually they are meteors.
Also comets are just asteroids with sufficiently eccentric orbits and a particularly impressive chemical makeup. (I.e. enough ice to make a pretty tail.) So I think if they enter earth’s atmosphere they’re still meteors?
Aren’t the stars you are supposed to wish upon, shooting stars that die exactly the moment you make your wish, which is the whole point of the exercise?
You know, like one statistically improbable and as such lucky moment in time…
Just saying…
but shooting stars are just meteors, and not actual stars.
WORF: I am experiencing nIb’poH, the feeling I have done this before.
(TNG, “Cause and Effect”)
It’s OK I once saw a shooting star and wished that everyone could wish upon regular stars, so feel free to go nuts.
Well, I went outside wishing on the first star that crossed my view that wishing on any kind of star or non-star doesn’t work anymore.
And yes, I identify as an evil mirror guy wrongfully put in the wrong universe!
Council of Mages - Official Report on the Wish Catastrophe
(the document is scrawled in a childlike hand, or one that is unused to writing manually. The document is badly smeared with ink and is illegible in many places)
This will likely be the last report of the Council. Many of the members are dead or dying. Suspect anti-magick agents have conducted the Wish To End Wishing. Range of effect unknown but believed general at least to this dimension. Extra-dimensional scrying now impossible (illegible section) impossible to determine. Our palaces will crumble soon to dust, our people soon reduced to scrounging and hunting in the dirt like the mundane creatures of the wood. Most will starve or succumb to disease. Our libraries will decay, all our knowledge will pass into myth, and we will fall into ignorance. There is no repair. My family (This section is smeared and illegible. the smears look intentional)
(illegible) and I will continue our research, if food and shelter can be found, though with no magic whatsoever (illegible section) on survival. Recommend all do similar.
I would wish good luck, but the gesture is now empty. Farewell if you may.
End of Report
Also shooting stars are meteors, not stars
Thanks for the reminder, Mr. Spock.
Now, would you please return to the science station and find out the date of the next meteor shower?
We have a few urgent wishes to place!
We’re still going through the Perseids right now, you should see a few if you are patient enough and the night skies are clear.
If meteors combusting in a planet’s atmosphere had the ability to grant requests to those who view them, I am sure a great many evils on a great many planets would have been solved a long time ago. In my experience, the only thing that can assist in solving a problem is a thorough understanding of its causes and the ingenuity sufficient to devise a solution.
In other words, you will get no assistance from a rock, unless of course that rock happens to be a scientist.
On rare occasion they are comets.
True! But the “brief flash of light” ones are objects burning up in our atmosphere. They can be comets or even artificial objects, but usually they are meteors.
Also comets are just asteroids with sufficiently eccentric orbits and a particularly impressive chemical makeup. (I.e. enough ice to make a pretty tail.) So I think if they enter earth’s atmosphere they’re still meteors?
Artificial objects? Hmm, so if next time I wish for a collision between starlink satellites I could trigger the unlimited wishes glitch?
Better hope kessler syndrome is worth all those wishes 🤣