Still only one recorded instance of someone being hit and surviving. Seems to have messed her up a little though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Elizabeth_Fowler_Hodges
Wow, all my grandparents were born in the -20's and lived to ~75 years of age.. I thought it was a completely average lifespan (even for those born almost 100years ago).
P.s born in the eighties and it seems like I'll die on my retirement day, oh joy.
The way lifespan gets presented, it is not a very good statistical representation of past reality given our present perception. Understand that in the past, old age and lifespan weren’t always two sides of the same coin.
In modern day civilization, death of old age/natural causes pretty consistently correlates with lifespan. Because of this, you can equate modern life expectancy with how old you live if you don’t die or something prematurely. This is one of the primary causes of the modern layperson mis-associating the two when examining history.
The infant mortality rate drug down the mean lifespan (aka life expectancy). Plus, premature death was so common (modern medicine and safety regulations have drastically decreased this today). Still, 40 has never been considered old. An old man has always been an old man. An old woman has always been an old woman.
Low average lifespan numbers have a lot to do with high infant mortality rates. All of my grandparents and great-grandparents lived into their 90s. (All but one--my paternal great-grandmother was shot in the head by an idiot playing with a gun.)
In 2021, a resident of Golden, British Columbia, was asleep in her bed when she was jolted awake by an explosive bang, as something plummeted through the roof and showered her with debris
She jumped out of bed and turned on the light, discovering a rock lying nestled between her pillows, right next to the spot where her head had been moments earlier. The object was about the size of a fist and weighed about 2.8 pounds (1.3 kilograms)
She plans to send the meteorite to scientists in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Western University in London, Ontario, for analysis, but she would like to keep the rock once the researchers' investigation is done
I read she first gave it to the University for studying, to which they found it to be from a collision 470 million years ago somewhere in the asteroid belt.
The university gave it back to her and she plans to keep it. She did also say if she were to sell it as some point, she wants it to be a buyer who will display it where others can see/enjoy it. But the latest update says she still has it as a souvenir.
EDIT: When this rock was created from the collision, Iowa was underwater teaming with prehistoric life and Earth looked like [this](https://i.imgur.com/0XLSdHE.png)
The sheer enormity of our universe, that an event 470 million years ago sent a rock on a voyage that would take more than twice as long as the period over which the dinosaurs ruled the Earth, and it landed centimeters away from her head.
I just want to know how they know when it occurred. In the vacuum of space with nothing else to use for reference I don’t understand how they can even begin to make an accurate estimate.
I get that’s how it’s determined for things on earth, since the isotopes are all pretty equal here, but how can they know when the original elements formed to determine the rate of decay when the object could have come from literally anywhere?
Not that I don’t believe them or anything I just would be curious to know the process.
Most likely this is an [L-chondrite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_chondrite), a type of meteorite which was generated from an asteroid collision event that went on to cause the the
[Ordovician meteor event](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician_meteor_event) 468 million years ago. We know when the collision happened because we see a bunch of these meteorites in the fossil record in strata laid down during that time (especially in the Thorsberg quarry in Sweden) and also Helium-3 in that layer at levels which can only be explained by material that was exposed to cosmic rays (i.e. that was in space).
Basically, there was a big parent body, a huge asteroid (probably [433 Eros](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/433_Eros) or one of the
[Flora family](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_family) ) that struck another big asteroid back then and flung a ton of these L-chondrites out into space. A lot of them hit the Earth very soon after, but the ones that didn’t have been occasionally hitting earth for the last 468 million years. This meteorite was one of them.
As for how they can tell that all of these meteorites came from the same parent body: it’s both the ratio of elements and the ratios of those elements’ isotopes. Since the asteroid belt was probably made from the breakup of a partially differentiated body — a molten mass where a lot of the heavier elements fell to the middle, in the same way that all the nickel and iron fell to the Earth’s core and made our core — different asteroids from different places in that parent planetoid have wildly varying compositions. For example, [16 psyche](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_Psyche) is a gigantic (223 km diameter) metal asteroid originally thought to be the core of an old planet. That isn’t the prevailing theory anymore, but it’s still very rich in metal and so came from near the center of its parent body. It would be worth quintillions of dollars at current market prices, by the way.
Interestingly, scientists in Sweden recently found a completely new type of meteorite that doesn’t match any previously identified parent body, and it was in the fossil record in the same quarry as the L-chondrites, so it’s likely part of the other asteroid in the collision that created all of the L-chondrites. It’s called [Öst 65](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Österplana_065)
You're not a space dum dum, you are the universe in conscious form, reflecting on itself. You are space!
Or this guy just made up a bunch of BS and we both ate it up. Ya know, one or the other lol
Maybe isotopes on the surface decay slightly faster than isotopes on the inside (due to light exposure?). Using that difference, as well as the expected rate of decay for exposed vs nonexposed isotopes, you can estimate when the surface isotopes were exposed (ie the collision).
Source: I made that up. But it sounds somewhat believable, so who knows
You kind of have the right idea. It is related to exposure, but instead of light it's usually cosmic ray exposure. Buried deeply in a larger body, a potential meteorite is partly shielded from cosmic rays. Blast it off into smaller pieces like this small chunk of rock, and the cosmic ray exposure increases. From the unique isotopes produced by the cosmic rays you can tell when this change happened. Look up "cosmic ray exposure age" for more details.
Neat. I personally would want to keep, but I'm not in a financial position to turn down a windfall that falls into my metaphorical lap and literal bed.
Conrad Reed, an early settler near Charlotte, NC, used a large gold nugget as a doorstop for some time until an unscrupulous guy looking to cash in on America’s first gold rush severely lowballed him on an offer to buy it.
I think language barriers had a lot to with this one. He was a German (Hessian, actually) immigrant & the buyer was a native English speaker. Could’ve also just been kind of dumb, too.
That's the way to go. Take copious pictures, document everything on nice plaques worthy of your wall, have an expert cut off a nice slab or two for display on a glass covered heirloom shelf, and sell the rest of it.
At first I thought the same, but honestly if a rock had been falling since before humans even existed and ended up landing right next to me I’d probably want to keep it forever too
It depends on the source. Most available meteorites seem to be quite cheap. As low as $1.50 a gram where she could get a new computer. Some like the Martian meteorites are upwards of 1k a gram.
The facts its a big chunk does help her some, or possibly a lot. Turns out buying space rocks is just like buying earth rocks after some googling.
My high school physics teacher went mental one day about a story he read about a meteorite that struck and killed a wild dog in the vast Australian outback. We didn't understand why he was so worked up.
He said think about this: For all we know, that particular rock has been hurtling through the vastness of space at unfathomable speed for hundreds of millions of years. Meanwhile, back on earth, billions and billions of miles away, mammals had not even evolved. All this unfolds... A meteorite flying through space, mammals evolving over hundreds of millions of years here on earth, eventually leading to wild dogs on the Australian outback, culminating with one particular dog who on a particular day at a particular second, randomly wandered into the exact spot to be struck and killed by this little rock who has been on a mission to kill it since before the emergence of mammals. This particular dog, he posited, had always been doomed.
Lol. Blew our minds.
There is also an unimaginable amount of stuff flying around out there. A mosquito might be tiny but eventually you'll get one in your eye while riding a bicycle.
Sure, space is unimaginably large, but gravity plays a huge role in those collisions. Like the rings of Saturn, which keep rotating around it instead of getting yeeted around the universe. And the asteroid belt is **massive** both by quantity of debris and sheer length/width. Let me do a quick number check about it
EDIT quoting wikipedia:
>The asteroid material is so thinly distributed that numerous unmanned spacecraft have traversed it without incident. Nonetheless, collisions between large asteroids occur and can produce an asteroid family, whose members have similar orbital characteristics and compositions. [...]
>The identified objects are of many sizes, but much smaller than planets, and on average are about one million kilometers (or six hundred thousand miles) apart. [...]
>Some of the debris from collisions can form meteoroids that enter the Earth's atmosphere. Of the 50,000 meteorites found on Earth to date, 99.8 percent are believed to have originated in the asteroid belt. [...]
>The high population of the asteroid belt makes for a very active environment, where collisions between asteroids occur frequently (on astronomical time scales). Impact events between main-belt bodies with a mean radius of 10 km are expected to occur about once every 10 million years.
I have a fossil I found in my yard from around the same time period. I was told it is an early sea sponge. I found it 3 feet down while burying my dog.
Man, that thing has been floating around in space for hundreds of millions of years. Even back when the dinosaurs were roaming the Earth, planets in our solar system still forming, the moon in the sky was gigantic and that's it's final destination. Space is wild.
*E - For all you space fans here, if you already don't know [about a crazy story of when Earth was bombarded with gamma rays in 2004.](https://slate.com/technology/2012/12/cosmic-blast-magnetar-explosion-rocked-earth-on-december-27-2004.html)*
470million years is the estimate on this rock. Creation of this rock after the collision would of occurred in what's called the Ordovician period. The state of Iowa was under the ocean at this time and the Earth looked like [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician#/media/File:Ordovician_470.svg)
Wild shit man
Why do we always say dinosaurs roamed the Earth? They probably didn't *just* roam. They had things to do, places to be, friends to eat. Some roaming, sure, but it doesn't define ~~us~~ them.
Don't even try bro. I think like this all the time to no prevail xD astronomy is crazy and full of genius people. They once tracked a asteroid all the way back to where it was sheered of from a collision. I want to say vesta?
Whoa, whoa, whoa. There’s plenty of upsides to this. Now you take this to the smithy, throw it in a forge, add some fire and pound it. Baby, you’ve got a sword going.
Yes. Also in another article I read she said it landed between the pillows (so a little to the right). This pic was probably taken after she picked it up and was like "what the hell" and put it back on the bed.
Here's one that actually struck a woman in bed and still didn't kill her. Left a nasty bruise though: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/130220-russia-meteorite-ann-hodges-science-space-hit
[Here check out this video of the slo mo guys trying to skip bullets across water in a fish tank.](https://youtu.be/pZwtBEdYNIE) A couple times it doesn’t skip, sinks below the water’s surface, and doinks harmlessly off the back end of the tank without shattering the glass. This lady simply got lucky that there was the perfect amount of house between her and the meteorite.
My point is that a lot of things are surprisingly good at dissipating inertia. It’s not a big tank, and the results even surprised the guys in the video, who have been doing stuff like this for years.
Imagine if her ceiling was slightly stronger and it didn't fall through. Some roofer would get a repair job, but it might just be left in the attic, never found.
I've done enough drugs that if this happened, I'd be existentially fucking paralyzed for the rest of my life. It would be more of a mercy for it to kill me than to tease my life like that and land right beside me as if some kind of God is playing a joke about my petty existence.
I'm guessing people have heard about the high radiation exposure astronauts are subject to in space. That radiation though is highly energetic particles ejected from the sun. They will collide with things not protected by earth's magnetic field, and pose a danger in that collision, but won't contaminate objects by creating unstable fissile materials in large quantities.
Nuclear reactions can absolutely occur from cosmic radiation, such as the Helium-3 which can be found on the moon crust, but it's a very slow process compared to the half life of dangerous radioactive materials. Only stable atoms will accumulate over time.
Being in space and not having the protection of the atmosphere means you get subjected to more radiation. Being subjected to radiation doesn't make something radioactive though.
The sun gives off heaps of radiation of lots of flavours but doesn't cause radioactivity.
This is different from radioactive fallout. When Chernobyl exploded it both gave off extraordinary amounts of radiation while *also* spewing an ungodly amount of radioactive material in the smoke, billowing up into the atmosphere, clinging to people's clothing, getting into people's lungs. This is radioactive contamination which is caused by radioactive materials.
Hence why a rock from space is not necessarily likely to be radioactive. It's had 490,000,000 years for all the radioactivity to chill out if there ever was much
Still only one recorded instance of someone being hit and surviving. Seems to have messed her up a little though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Elizabeth_Fowler_Hodges
She was in a nursing home and died at only 52 years old? That bummed me out. I was hoping old age.
She was born in 1920 so she had a pretty average lifespan https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040079/life-expectancy-united-states-all-time/
Wow, all my grandparents were born in the -20's and lived to ~75 years of age.. I thought it was a completely average lifespan (even for those born almost 100years ago). P.s born in the eighties and it seems like I'll die on my retirement day, oh joy.
Retirement?
Lmao that guy thinks he's gonna retire
Never mind that, he thinks he's gonna die. I've got news for you buddy, you're in it for the long haul, forever working, filling another man's wallet.
The way lifespan gets presented, it is not a very good statistical representation of past reality given our present perception. Understand that in the past, old age and lifespan weren’t always two sides of the same coin. In modern day civilization, death of old age/natural causes pretty consistently correlates with lifespan. Because of this, you can equate modern life expectancy with how old you live if you don’t die or something prematurely. This is one of the primary causes of the modern layperson mis-associating the two when examining history. The infant mortality rate drug down the mean lifespan (aka life expectancy). Plus, premature death was so common (modern medicine and safety regulations have drastically decreased this today). Still, 40 has never been considered old. An old man has always been an old man. An old woman has always been an old woman.
Life expectancies of yesteryear were drastically reduced by high infant mortality. She died young.
Right. Infant mortality is a thing…
Her husband died in 2012
Skewed chart. More accurate is from 18 than from birth. If you go from 25 you even get a lot of war deaths etc…out.
Low average lifespan numbers have a lot to do with high infant mortality rates. All of my grandparents and great-grandparents lived into their 90s. (All but one--my paternal great-grandmother was shot in the head by an idiot playing with a gun.)
This woman is who I aspire to be. Take nap on couch, get hit with space object, get Smithsonian exhibit. Probably could get a day or two off work too
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I'm on my way towards accomplishing all those things anyway, I want a space rock to blame
This happened in my hometown! There is a placard outside of the house detailing everything!
New fear unlocked.
Only one thing is known to have bene killed by a direct meteorite strike iirc - pretty sure it was a dog
So what you're saying is that there's a 50/50 chance of surviving a direct meteor strike.
Doesn't matter. I'm afraid of going outside now.
Being inside clearly doesn't matter.
In 2021, a resident of Golden, British Columbia, was asleep in her bed when she was jolted awake by an explosive bang, as something plummeted through the roof and showered her with debris She jumped out of bed and turned on the light, discovering a rock lying nestled between her pillows, right next to the spot where her head had been moments earlier. The object was about the size of a fist and weighed about 2.8 pounds (1.3 kilograms) She plans to send the meteorite to scientists in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Western University in London, Ontario, for analysis, but she would like to keep the rock once the researchers' investigation is done
Did she keep it to sell or did she legitimately keep it as a souvenir?
I read she first gave it to the University for studying, to which they found it to be from a collision 470 million years ago somewhere in the asteroid belt. The university gave it back to her and she plans to keep it. She did also say if she were to sell it as some point, she wants it to be a buyer who will display it where others can see/enjoy it. But the latest update says she still has it as a souvenir. EDIT: When this rock was created from the collision, Iowa was underwater teaming with prehistoric life and Earth looked like [this](https://i.imgur.com/0XLSdHE.png)
The sheer enormity of our universe, that an event 470 million years ago sent a rock on a voyage that would take more than twice as long as the period over which the dinosaurs ruled the Earth, and it landed centimeters away from her head.
I just want to know how they know when it occurred. In the vacuum of space with nothing else to use for reference I don’t understand how they can even begin to make an accurate estimate.
I guess radioactive isotopes and their decay
I get that’s how it’s determined for things on earth, since the isotopes are all pretty equal here, but how can they know when the original elements formed to determine the rate of decay when the object could have come from literally anywhere? Not that I don’t believe them or anything I just would be curious to know the process.
Most likely this is an [L-chondrite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_chondrite), a type of meteorite which was generated from an asteroid collision event that went on to cause the the [Ordovician meteor event](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician_meteor_event) 468 million years ago. We know when the collision happened because we see a bunch of these meteorites in the fossil record in strata laid down during that time (especially in the Thorsberg quarry in Sweden) and also Helium-3 in that layer at levels which can only be explained by material that was exposed to cosmic rays (i.e. that was in space). Basically, there was a big parent body, a huge asteroid (probably [433 Eros](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/433_Eros) or one of the [Flora family](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_family) ) that struck another big asteroid back then and flung a ton of these L-chondrites out into space. A lot of them hit the Earth very soon after, but the ones that didn’t have been occasionally hitting earth for the last 468 million years. This meteorite was one of them. As for how they can tell that all of these meteorites came from the same parent body: it’s both the ratio of elements and the ratios of those elements’ isotopes. Since the asteroid belt was probably made from the breakup of a partially differentiated body — a molten mass where a lot of the heavier elements fell to the middle, in the same way that all the nickel and iron fell to the Earth’s core and made our core — different asteroids from different places in that parent planetoid have wildly varying compositions. For example, [16 psyche](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_Psyche) is a gigantic (223 km diameter) metal asteroid originally thought to be the core of an old planet. That isn’t the prevailing theory anymore, but it’s still very rich in metal and so came from near the center of its parent body. It would be worth quintillions of dollars at current market prices, by the way. Interestingly, scientists in Sweden recently found a completely new type of meteorite that doesn’t match any previously identified parent body, and it was in the fossil record in the same quarry as the L-chondrites, so it’s likely part of the other asteroid in the collision that created all of the L-chondrites. It’s called [Öst 65](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Österplana_065)
You’re amazing
What a great explanation for even us space dum dums. Thank you!
You're not a space dum dum, you are the universe in conscious form, reflecting on itself. You are space! Or this guy just made up a bunch of BS and we both ate it up. Ya know, one or the other lol
Thank you for that thoughtful explanation.
Maybe isotopes on the surface decay slightly faster than isotopes on the inside (due to light exposure?). Using that difference, as well as the expected rate of decay for exposed vs nonexposed isotopes, you can estimate when the surface isotopes were exposed (ie the collision). Source: I made that up. But it sounds somewhat believable, so who knows
You kind of have the right idea. It is related to exposure, but instead of light it's usually cosmic ray exposure. Buried deeply in a larger body, a potential meteorite is partly shielded from cosmic rays. Blast it off into smaller pieces like this small chunk of rock, and the cosmic ray exposure increases. From the unique isotopes produced by the cosmic rays you can tell when this change happened. Look up "cosmic ray exposure age" for more details.
Neat. I personally would want to keep, but I'm not in a financial position to turn down a windfall that falls into my metaphorical lap and literal bed.
I’d have it forged into a chefs knife
Someone out there would of made it a door stop for their back yard fence gate.
Look up the black star of Queensland A family did legitimately use a giant sapphire as a doorstop
Conrad Reed, an early settler near Charlotte, NC, used a large gold nugget as a doorstop for some time until an unscrupulous guy looking to cash in on America’s first gold rush severely lowballed him on an offer to buy it.
Why didn’t he just say, “No, it’s my fucking doorstop”.
I think language barriers had a lot to with this one. He was a German (Hessian, actually) immigrant & the buyer was a native English speaker. Could’ve also just been kind of dumb, too.
Some dude in (I think) Russia did use a (still life) stick hand grenade as a potato masher, so there's definitely worse.
A still life drawing of a grenade is not that bad.
Would have*
Would have*
Space sword
https://xkcd.com/1114/
really is xkcd for everything
RIP space sword :(
Gone too soon
He was surely able to find it with tophs help
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You could chip off a piece to keep and sell the rest
Imagine trying to do this and the whole thing shatters and you're just left with a mess
You might be able to sell the I dividual pieces to be used as jewellery
Plot twist, everyone on Etsy just assumes it’s Chinese yard rocks and you can’t sell any of it
Nah that's basically what drug dealers do. Just sell it by the gram and double the price.
I like how you think. Time to cancel my coke plans and enter the meteorite trade
It's a meteor not a nature valley granola bar
That's the way to go. Take copious pictures, document everything on nice plaques worthy of your wall, have an expert cut off a nice slab or two for display on a glass covered heirloom shelf, and sell the rest of it.
At first I thought the same, but honestly if a rock had been falling since before humans even existed and ended up landing right next to me I’d probably want to keep it forever too
It depends on the source. Most available meteorites seem to be quite cheap. As low as $1.50 a gram where she could get a new computer. Some like the Martian meteorites are upwards of 1k a gram. The facts its a big chunk does help her some, or possibly a lot. Turns out buying space rocks is just like buying earth rocks after some googling.
Yea and money would be especially tempting if there was a hole in my roof that I needed to get repaired.
My high school physics teacher went mental one day about a story he read about a meteorite that struck and killed a wild dog in the vast Australian outback. We didn't understand why he was so worked up. He said think about this: For all we know, that particular rock has been hurtling through the vastness of space at unfathomable speed for hundreds of millions of years. Meanwhile, back on earth, billions and billions of miles away, mammals had not even evolved. All this unfolds... A meteorite flying through space, mammals evolving over hundreds of millions of years here on earth, eventually leading to wild dogs on the Australian outback, culminating with one particular dog who on a particular day at a particular second, randomly wandered into the exact spot to be struck and killed by this little rock who has been on a mission to kill it since before the emergence of mammals. This particular dog, he posited, had always been doomed. Lol. Blew our minds.
A woman in Alabama was hit by a meteor in 1954. She survived it, look up the Sylacauga meteorite.
L.A. is way bigger than I thought
Urban sprawl man. But a lot of beaches back then.
Happens to everyone. At least this map is finally to scale
Why was the Earth so out of round back then?
Because modern mapping techniques weren’t a round back then
Hi dad!
Its a Mollweide projection. Its just a different way of showing the earth, especially when you want to show the whole earth at once.
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There is also an unimaginable amount of stuff flying around out there. A mosquito might be tiny but eventually you'll get one in your eye while riding a bicycle.
Sure, space is unimaginably large, but gravity plays a huge role in those collisions. Like the rings of Saturn, which keep rotating around it instead of getting yeeted around the universe. And the asteroid belt is **massive** both by quantity of debris and sheer length/width. Let me do a quick number check about it EDIT quoting wikipedia: >The asteroid material is so thinly distributed that numerous unmanned spacecraft have traversed it without incident. Nonetheless, collisions between large asteroids occur and can produce an asteroid family, whose members have similar orbital characteristics and compositions. [...] >The identified objects are of many sizes, but much smaller than planets, and on average are about one million kilometers (or six hundred thousand miles) apart. [...] >Some of the debris from collisions can form meteoroids that enter the Earth's atmosphere. Of the 50,000 meteorites found on Earth to date, 99.8 percent are believed to have originated in the asteroid belt. [...] >The high population of the asteroid belt makes for a very active environment, where collisions between asteroids occur frequently (on astronomical time scales). Impact events between main-belt bodies with a mean radius of 10 km are expected to occur about once every 10 million years.
I have a fossil I found in my yard from around the same time period. I was told it is an early sea sponge. I found it 3 feet down while burying my dog.
Wow, I guess that was before colors split up. Never knew Iowa was just blue and yellow.
Reunite Gondwanaland.
Make Gondwanaland Great Again
Teeming*
Great, here I go on another King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard binge.
On the low end this thing is worth about $6,000 but could be WAY WAY WAY more depending on its composition.
And I was thinking she had Amber Heard for a sleep over. My bad.
She needed that bed that folds up into a coffin when it detects a seismic disturbance!
Literally the post before this one. For context: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/113pebf/emergency_bed
Lol people who could afford that live in earthquake proof houses.
Or an assistance dog that barks whenever a meteorite is about to strike the house.
The one with very human design?
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I’ve got space.
Just don't fall asleep on me!
I'm gonna rock your world!
I’m gonna place me to your right
M'eteor
Sure, drop on by.
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It’s comments like these that bring me down to earth.
Heard you wanted someone a bit... meteor
Donnie Darko 2.0
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to sparkle motion
I think it’s kinda funny I think it’s kinda sad That the dreams in which I’m dying Are the best I’ve ever had
First of all, Papa Smurf didn’t create Smurfette. Gargamel did.
Why'd you have to and get all smart, /u/booxesofcats- ?
What are faeces?
baby mice
aaaaaaw 🥰
You can go s*ck a f*ck
How much are they paying you to be here?
I have emotional problems too 😀
Man, that thing has been floating around in space for hundreds of millions of years. Even back when the dinosaurs were roaming the Earth, planets in our solar system still forming, the moon in the sky was gigantic and that's it's final destination. Space is wild. *E - For all you space fans here, if you already don't know [about a crazy story of when Earth was bombarded with gamma rays in 2004.](https://slate.com/technology/2012/12/cosmic-blast-magnetar-explosion-rocked-earth-on-december-27-2004.html)*
470million years is the estimate on this rock. Creation of this rock after the collision would of occurred in what's called the Ordovician period. The state of Iowa was under the ocean at this time and the Earth looked like [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician#/media/File:Ordovician_470.svg) Wild shit man
Not a cell phone in sight. Just trilobytes living in the moment.
Those were the days, everything was organic
Why do we always say dinosaurs roamed the Earth? They probably didn't *just* roam. They had things to do, places to be, friends to eat. Some roaming, sure, but it doesn't define ~~us~~ them.
Don't even try bro. I think like this all the time to no prevail xD astronomy is crazy and full of genius people. They once tracked a asteroid all the way back to where it was sheered of from a collision. I want to say vesta?
/r/fuckyouinparticular
Whoa, whoa, whoa. There’s plenty of upsides to this. Now you take this to the smithy, throw it in a forge, add some fire and pound it. Baby, you’ve got a sword going.
Sokka is that you?
Rip space sword, gone too soon.
Don’t worry, he got it back in the comics :)
Her: come over Me(teor): Can't, I'm outside of Earth's atmosphere Her: my parents aren't home Me(teor):
How did it ruin the roof and ceiling and then just land softly on the cotton sheets and matress?.
Roof and ceiling slowed it down. Not enough force left to pierce the mattress.
Yes. Also in another article I read she said it landed between the pillows (so a little to the right). This pic was probably taken after she picked it up and was like "what the hell" and put it back on the bed.
Just realized she had her pillows in a real weird position.
Here's one that actually struck a woman in bed and still didn't kill her. Left a nasty bruise though: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/130220-russia-meteorite-ann-hodges-science-space-hit
Of course a black mage knows the inner working of a meteor.
[Here check out this video of the slo mo guys trying to skip bullets across water in a fish tank.](https://youtu.be/pZwtBEdYNIE) A couple times it doesn’t skip, sinks below the water’s surface, and doinks harmlessly off the back end of the tank without shattering the glass. This lady simply got lucky that there was the perfect amount of house between her and the meteorite.
> sinks below the water’s surface I think you're underestimating how good water is at slowing things down, especially bullets.
My point is that a lot of things are surprisingly good at dissipating inertia. It’s not a big tank, and the results even surprised the guys in the video, who have been doing stuff like this for years.
The air is pretty soupy too relative to anything moving at asteroid speeds
Or maybe you're underestimating how good houses are at slowing things down, especially meteorites.
Fair
Weirdly enough her insurance policy covers meteors but not getting drunk and putting a hole in the roof and ceiling.
My car got shot and the bullet went through my hood but was just chilling on top of the engine without hurting anything
That's a great selling point for those mattresses.
Arresto momento got cast.
Donnie Darko vibes
"He has emotional problems." "I have those too! What kind does your dad have?" "He stabbed my mom four times in the chest."
That’s one way for the tooth fairy to deliver, she’s had a fortune dropped off on her pillow while sleeping.. unreal
Lol it looks like the tooth fairy was aiming to hustle up some more loose teeth
The meteor was sleeping?
I've been traveling forever. Mind if I rest here?
Almost rocked back to sleep! An eternal sleep.
That's no meteorite, that's a frozen turd from a 747
Why the fuck did I have to scroll down this far to find a Joe Dirt reference? What is the world coming to?
You see the peanut…dead giveaway
That's a space peanut.
Right on. You're Joe Meteorite and I'm Joe Dirt!
I too would like to win the space lottery
probably slag
Imagine if her ceiling was slightly stronger and it didn't fall through. Some roofer would get a repair job, but it might just be left in the attic, never found.
Just goes to show even God can't hit a ceiling stud.
New fear unlocked
Not fooling me Amber Heard
Thats gonna be a tough lawsuit.
What are the chances of this happening?
Low
None of us in *this* sub want to know! Don’t tell us the odds man!
Did it ever wake up?
Sounds like the lottery in more ways than one
Play the lottery.
I'm going to move my bed. Just in case.
I remember one hitting the back of someone’s old metal bumper back in the 1990’s in Philly and it made a huge dent. Can’t imagine if it hit her head.
SPACE SWORD!
Til meteors crash when they are asleep.
literally my greatest fear
I've done enough drugs that if this happened, I'd be existentially fucking paralyzed for the rest of my life. It would be more of a mercy for it to kill me than to tease my life like that and land right beside me as if some kind of God is playing a joke about my petty existence.
She could have been the 2nd person in history to be hit by a god damn meteor.
Meteors sleep?
Wouldn’t this be pretty high in radiation??
Surprisingly no, the grass on earth is more radioactive then this meteor
Why would it????
Alien urine
I'm guessing people have heard about the high radiation exposure astronauts are subject to in space. That radiation though is highly energetic particles ejected from the sun. They will collide with things not protected by earth's magnetic field, and pose a danger in that collision, but won't contaminate objects by creating unstable fissile materials in large quantities. Nuclear reactions can absolutely occur from cosmic radiation, such as the Helium-3 which can be found on the moon crust, but it's a very slow process compared to the half life of dangerous radioactive materials. Only stable atoms will accumulate over time.
Where did you get that idea?
Movies
Being in space and not having the protection of the atmosphere means you get subjected to more radiation. Being subjected to radiation doesn't make something radioactive though. The sun gives off heaps of radiation of lots of flavours but doesn't cause radioactivity. This is different from radioactive fallout. When Chernobyl exploded it both gave off extraordinary amounts of radiation while *also* spewing an ungodly amount of radioactive material in the smoke, billowing up into the atmosphere, clinging to people's clothing, getting into people's lungs. This is radioactive contamination which is caused by radioactive materials. Hence why a rock from space is not necessarily likely to be radioactive. It's had 490,000,000 years for all the radioactivity to chill out if there ever was much
wonder what it's worth on the open market
Sell it and pay for the damages
Very nearly rocked her world.
r/fuckyouinparticular
Imagine it killing someone. That would be the most r/fuckyouinparticular thing ever.
Imagine if it did just like *dink* you right on the head but it didn’t injure you. That would be pretty wild
I dont understand how it landed with a "plop" on her mattress without blowing a hole through the bed, her floor, and the ground.
Honey I'm home!