Can someone explain to me, why olives don’t just fall out of the skies?
eh?
Um… because they grow on olive trees?
Welcome to the SDMB.
As I’m sure you know, rain falls from the skies because it is heavier than air although the tiny particles around which the water condenses to form raindrops are not. Obviously, the answer to your question is that olive pits are too large. They cannot stay aloft long enough for olives to condense around them and consequently fall.
As Mats K very nearly points out, only those olive pits which are held aloft by the branches of trees manage to aggregate enough olive substance to be recognizable as what we call olives. This process is called “growing.”
Hope this helps. If not, please consult a psychiatrist.
you don’t understand me, I know that olives fall out of their trees, the questions is wheather they also fall out of the skies!?! (based on a true story…)
Technically, considering how tall the olive trees are and how you define “skies”, when some olives fall from the trees, then they are falling from the skies. 
Yes, and I suspect I’m not alone. Please see above advice.
Okay, so what is this ‘true story’? I’ve heard of odd things falling from the skies during tornadoes and waterspouts, but short of someone leaving the cargo bay door open on a plane and the entire olive shipment (and the people and animals below) experiencing the wonders of gravity, I have to cast a suspicious wonder at this.
Perhaps you could give us a clue as to what the story is, so we can understand what you’re talking about?
perhaps the question is spiritual rather than material?
perhaps this spirtual question is much more profound than you thought? (olives are not just olives…)
Can I have some of what you’re smoking?
You mean they’re falling pre-stuffed with pimentos? How convenient.
Manna and pennies from heaven, OK. Olives - nah.
Olives could potentially be carried aloft by a tornado and deposited some distance away; there is a fair amount of documentation(albeit mostly anecdotal) of this sort of phenomenon happening with all kinds of objects/animals.
But why do I get the feeling that the OP wasn’t quite asking the question in this way?
It is because the swallows are too tired from carrying coconuts.
Avi, lama ata mezayen lanu et hamoach?
Kidai shetiraga, vimaher.
Oooo. . . a riddle.
I’m not good with riddles, but olive puns.
that was pitiful. It won’t garnish you any praise. Oil bet, even that some may stone you for that.
wring,
You must now be punished. That was just awful, really.
Zette
(at least I have a new sig!)
Lama? Chacha!
they do if you are a follower of the Cup Has No Bottom church where members gather in darken rooms and pray to the god Martini the faithful are rewarded with olives in their prayer cup
Olives need the speed required to fall through the dirt and impregnate themselves with garlic, “the new pimento.”
There is an olive company out of Santa Barbara that sells the most delicious garlic stuffed olives in the world. Buy them.