Big Bang Problem

I think you mean "germs" sweetheart, not DNA.

A little clarification.
Meteors burn up in the atmosphere, depending on size (one the size of a grain of sand can be visible) and chemical makeup affects luminosity (the outgasing of the material).Meteorites are actually dense enough to survive atmospheric aerothermal heating and impact the surface of the earth.

I think she may be a little confused as to the difference between a Comet, a meteor and a meteorite.A comet (or asteroid) is interstellar debris left over from the original formation of our planets and solar system (chuncks of ice and rock that were left over and didn't become part of the large planets or become moons)...think of it as the same thing as large fish eating smaller fish. Some fish are just to small for it to bother with...so the small fish gets away and swims around for a very long time.Comets and asteroids are that way, until they get too close to a big fish (planet)...they fly around the solar system freely and we see comets because the Suns radiation and gravity pressure causes a tail to form from debris (smoke).I've actually seen "smoke" for a very slight instant from a meteor entering the earths atmosphere. It was a clear night and the entry light of the meteor reflected back against the tailing smoke. I bet that was a one time thing! (It was the plaecides meteor shower aout 4 years ago).

Sweety, our DNA doesn't get "mixed together" except in pro-creation. By your assertions, if I touch the same nickel you've touched our DNA has become mixed...your dandruff has your DNA in it, you've probably gotten every woman thats entered your local Wal-Mart restroom pregnant with your DNA.

Thank you! It WAS the Leonid showers. And I did see it...a very rare treat I guess. The "train" I saw was at most for a second (I didn't know they had been seen before).

They don't. Look at my Avatar. That is an actual REAL photograph of a Galaxy (like the Milkyway galaxy we live in) being absorbed by a black hole. There are whole Galaxies (just like ours) out there in the universe colliding with each other. Go to the NASA Hubble Space telescope web-site and see for yourself.You were "taught" that God created a perfect universe and it's NOT!....collisions beyond your wildest imagination have and are happening out there right now....Des, the pictures you are being shown, aren't from some high tech science fiction movie and aren't creatin' by some really clever folkes on the internet....they ate absolutely REAL and astonishing!!!

Since the late 50's to early 60's. They were actually around a little before that. Dr. Werner Van Braun started the space program (he worked under Hitler and developed the "V-2" rocket that bombed England ((later converted to the Mercury rocket that put John Glen in orbit)). He developed the Saturn V rocket that eventually put the U.S. on the moon.

Just an interesting bit. The american indians had a name for the spiral arm we can see occasionally at night....they called it the "backbone of the sky" and they believed it was what actually held the sky up.