Space is a harsh mistress

From the department of Bloody Hell:

Did you know that the sun looses several million tonnes of stuff - every second? This has been going on for a few billion years and will continue to happen for the next five billion years, give or take. That's a lot of seconds. A star has to be a certain mass in order for nuclear fusion to occur, this means this stuff being blown off into space is spare. Can you imagine anything so massive? It almost makes you want to believe in a god.

The sun isn't the only heavenly body that pulls off this trick, any planet with an atmosphere does the same thing, for us that means air, people. Though the scale isn't the same as the sun (phew). Slowly the atmosphere is thinning (on a slight tangent the moon's orbit is slowly decaying due to friction from the tides). IN the opposite direction a load of space dust (shooting stars and their less vain friends) are falling to earth all the time. What does this mean? You'll eventually suffocate but your flower beds will be extra thick.