DaveH
Striker
That would surely distort the dome. If bits fall off then it is not a perfectly smooth reflection screen. If you watched the sun, moon, planets and stars you would see the effects that you get when you project anything onto a non-even surface. This doesn't happen.I explained it all before.
Hydrogen/helium....etc, icicles coming loose from the dome and friction burning in more dense atmosphere high up, until they turn back to gas and take their place back into the atmospheric layer they equalise in as that gas.
Pretty simple to think on if you really want to look at it from my side. Not so simple if you obviously look at it as rocks and ice just flying through a vacuum in a sort of orbit or whatever.
I'm leaning to the side of thinking it might all be a load of rubbish with no evidence that doesn't work when you consider the details of observed reality.