• Question: Why do you think we call celebrities stars?

    Asked by smileysoph to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 16 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Adam Stevens

      Adam Stevens answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      Probably comes from ‘movie stars’ which would be from the early days of hollywood, because the actors ‘shone’ in the their movies or some such rubbish.

    • Photo: Karen Masters

      Karen Masters answered on 17 Mar 2012:

      I don’t know. Interesting question! I named my science blog “Beautiful Stars” after a quote by the physicist Richard Feynman which starts:

      “Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?”

      But I didn’t realise until after I did it that this makes it basically impossible to find on Google as it’s hidden in all sorts of stuff about how pretty celebrities are. Oh well! 😉

      It’s http://thebeautifulstars.blogspot.co.uk/ by the way.

    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      Because they are pointless balls of hot gas?

    • Photo: Nazim Bharmal

      Nazim Bharmal answered on 20 Mar 2012:

      Probably because they glitter when the photographers flashes reflect off their shiny white teeth.

      They are far more boring than real stars!

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