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The number of commercial airline flights per day, worldwide is around the 93,000 mark. If we halve that, to account for the rougly 50/50 split of day/night time, that leaves us with approximately 46,500 flights per night, worldwide. According to most astonomers, there are millions of foreign objects entering the atmosphere (approximately 100 tonnes worth) each with the capability to become a 'shooting star' each day. For the purpose of arguement, lets say 3 million each day. Again, if this is halved, we are left with approximate 1.5 million shooting stars worldwide each night. Therefore, the ratio of airplanes to shooting stars worldwide, during night time hours, is 46,500 to 1,500,000. Therefore, it is over 30 times as likely that you will see a shooting star than an airplane on any given night.

The morale of the story: Go outside and find a shooting star and stop wishing that airplanes are shooting stars.

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