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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?
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 🤣