:’) There’s been quite a bit of denial in our history that the Earth gets struck from above, and there still is here and there. That’s as old as Aristotle, who declared that stones can’t fall from the sky. That said, the iron on Earth’s crust mostly belched up out of some volcano or other, I left the gist of the debate in the excerpt, there’s a little more at the original.
Aristotle was brilliant in his ethics, but ... (from Darwin's Ghost) "Copernicus and Galileo put an end to the idea that space could be measured in human terms."