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: to try to do something that is very difficult and impressive She always encouraged her children to reach for the stars .
If you get lucky enough to see a shooting star , close your eyes before wishing. Then say , “Starlight, star bright, first star I see tonight: I wish I may, I wish I might, have this wish I wish tonight.” This old rhyme is rumored to make your wish come true.
As Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking, once said , “ Shoot for the moon . Even if you miss , you ‘ ll land among the stars .”
When you see shooting star you can quickly make a wish , and it will come true — under one condition: you mustn’t tell anyone about your wish .
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Some religions consider shooting stars to reflect fallen angels , and in certain parts of Asia a falling star is a bad omen predicting war or death. Sometimes what we think is a falling star is actually a meteor and some of the resulting space detritus even hits earth.
Though folklore of many cultures describes shooting or falling stars as rare events, “they’re hardly rare or even stars ,” says Luhman, Penn State assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics.
Just seeing one is considered to be good luck. Some cultures believe that fallen souls believe that shooting stars represent souls that have been released from purgatory, allowing them to finally go up to heaven and be at peace. In other cultures, a shooting star is the soul of a new baby coming to Earth to be born.
Simply put, the stars are WAY farther away than the moon . The moon is on average 384,400 kms away… THe nearest star is out own sun, 93 million miles distant. Stars other than the sun start at 3.25 light years which is 2 x 10^13 (20 thousand billion miles) miles and get much, much farther away.
So, whenever you have chosen to adopt a star, you know that even the smallest one is still bigger than the Moon or anything beyond your understanding. Stars are larger than planets or anything else in the Universe and they don’t consist of solid materials like the Moon .
Clement Stone Quotes. Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Again, shooting stars that make wishes come true is just the result of personal experiences, and is not backed by science. However, since spotting a falling star is not that easy, if you ever get lucky enough to see one, it doesn’t hurt to try it. Here is how you are ”supposed” to make a wish upon a shooting star .
We know that the probability of seeing at least one shooting star in a one hour period is 84 percent, so the probability of not seeing a shooting star in a one hour period is 16 percent .
“Some people think your wish will only come true if you keep it a secret,” Maybe your wish will come true ; maybe it won’t. But when we speak our wishes out loud — to ourselves, and to people who care about us— I think there’s way more chance they ‘ll come true .”