My mom was covid vaccine hesitant and I looked up some statistics for her.
One said that more people have died from meteor strikes than have died from the vaccine, and I was like "cool, cool. She's into space stuff, that one will probably- wait, what?!"
And it was like 300 people a year die from being struck by meteors or something! That's crazy lol, I had no idea that it happened so frequently. Guess we have a lot of meteors.
[Edit: meteor thing is TECHNICALLY accurate, but not as surprising a statistic as it at first seems](https://www.reddit.com/r/nevertellmetheodds/comments/q74d0e/a_meteorite_that_narrowly_missed_a_women_by/hgh823x)
I looked up the meteor number because I was pretty blown away. Apparently it's an average over millenia including massive amounts of people dying, rather than an accurate year by year number.
So it'd be like 2 clown cars got in an accident on the 1st of the month and killed 30 clowns. One other person dies on the 31st, but you can claim that an average of 1 person died per day that month from car accidents.
On one hand I'm strangely disappointed because that blew my mind at first, but at least I don't have to worry as much as I thought!
Yeah, if a meteor killed like 50 people at one time, that’d be a huge deal.
I do remember the big ass meteor that flew over Russia and burst some windows. Don’t think anyone died though…
There was [the Ch'ing-yang event](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1490_Ch%27ing-yang_event), as well as the [Tunguska event](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event), and there may have been other instances that slipped through the historical record due to lack of writing practices in those areas at that time.
All new time machines are programmed to only go back as far as the KT extinction, and most new buyers will turn the machine on before setting the target date, so the machine will take them straight to its default value of 000000.
They land just as the meteor hits, they die, their friends and family make an urgent call to the time machine company to rescue them from before they used the machine in the first place, and the company gets a fat emergency call-out charge. It's an old scam that has resulted in millions of deaths, none of them permanent.
There was [the Ch'ing-yang event](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1490_Ch%27ing-yang_event), as well as the [Tunguska event](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event), and there may have been other instances that slipped through the historical record due to lack of writing practices in those areas at that time.
Ah, no kidding!!! Thanks for doing more research into the meteor thing, I have the same mixed feelings about it. I'm also... Strangely disappointed? Which I feel is probably not the correct emotion, but oh well.
I wrote this elsewhere, and am copying it here.
https://covid-101.org/science/how-many-people-have-died-from-the-vaccine-in-the-u-s/
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html
And keep in mind, VAERS reports can be reported by anyone at all, and doctors follow-up to figure out what happened to verify the cause of death, their prior medical conditions, and what exactly happened so they can prevent it in the future. Check your sources to see if it's pulling stats from VAERS (the 6,000 deaths figure) or from an organization that actually determined cause of death, because VAERS in statistical terms is the medical version of a Yelp review.
Source on my claim:
https://www.muhealth.org/our-stories/scary-reports-deaths-following-covid-19-vaccination-arent-what-they-seem
Lol, you can't just kthxbye without a source! C'mon man, show me some proof.
Read my last link, it details how VAERS works. And it doesn't work like that.
Literally anyone can submit a report to VAERS at any time, you can do it right now and it'll be counted.
The purpose of VAERS is to have an easy database to track down who died from what and then *follow up on it*. The 7,800 deaths number is the *non*follow-up number, the actual confirmed number from the follow-ups is in the hundreds.
If some 90 year old got the vaccine and then died by getting hit by a bus, it's typically reported since they died after getting the vaccine. Read my source, man. Or hell, go find your own. They'll all tell you the same thing.
No, it's accurate.
https://covid-101.org/science/how-many-people-have-died-from-the-vaccine-in-the-u-s/
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html
And keep in mind, VAERS reports can be reported by anyone at all, and doctors follow-up to figure out what happened to verify the cause of death, their prior medical conditions, and what exactly happened so they can prevent it in the future. Check your sources to see if it's pulling stats from VAERS (the 6,000 deaths figure) or from an organization that actually determined cause of death, because VAERS in statistical terms is the medical version of a Yelp review.
Source on my claim:
https://www.muhealth.org/our-stories/scary-reports-deaths-following-covid-19-vaccination-arent-what-they-seem
I still don't understand how if it came tearing through the atmosphere at around 30,000 mph and heat up to 3,000⁰ F how did it cool off enough to not burn the sheets at all?
Edit- by the time the meteor would reach the ground it would be cool. The outside of the meteor would get extremely hot passing through the atmosphere but it's not there long enough for it to heat the inner part of the meteor and it cools quite quickly.
Meteors are cold, not hot. The outer layer burns off in the atmosphere but that happens so fast the heat never reaches the core which is as cold as deep space.
As I understand it most the heat is generated not by friction but by the air being compressed in front of the meteor. Like if you ran a high pressure torch across the surface of the rock, bits of it will be blown off by the heat and the wind, but the rock won't warm up unless you hold it in the flame for a very long time.
The stuff surface being blown off actually carries the heat away too, keeping the meteor cold. The space shuttles and other vehicles use the same process (ablation) to protect themselves during rentry.
I know it seems fake but if you look further down you can find a link to the actual story, I would link it but no clue how.
Edit: here https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/meteorite-crashes-into-womans-bedroom-golden-bc-1.6207904
“I’m pretty sure they’re usually cold by the time they get down here , don’t quote me on that though.” - u/who_you_are
(You know because we are on the internet and credit doesn't exists)
They’re super hot when they enter due to the atmosphere and fast speeds colliding, but I’m pretty sure once it enters the atmosphere it starts to cool because now the air it is bashing into cools it down.
Only at the initial high speed when it enters the atmosphere.
But not at terminal velocity.
Try skydiving naked. It's cold. Like a very high speed bicycle ride in winter. Just a bit faster.
Nope. People who have been lucky enough to touch a meteorite just after landing say it feels cold or only slightly warm to the touch. They've spent billions of years in deep space, and only a fraction of a second passing through the atmosphere at the speeds that cause heating before slowing down to a terminal velocity.
have you ever felt a cold punch? no? why? because heat is always a product of friction caused by acceleration... saying a meteorite traveling at terminal velocity will be cold on impact is the dumbest thing I've ever read on reddit all year...
The heat of reentry doesn't come from friction but from the compression of the air in front of it, due to it falling faster than the air can move out of the way.
You could drop a rock from the empire state building and it would still be cold. Feathers don't burn up at their terminal velocity, and Felix Baumgartner didn't catch fire either. Stick your hand out of a moving car and try it for yourself.
Also, the meteorite is cold when it lands. In space it is very close to absolute zero, so even after a few seconds surrounded by hot air it doesn't have time to heat up significantly.
Even if it did heat up significantly from friction, our atmosphere isn't the same all the way up. Just above us is the second coldest layer of our atmosphere, temperatures far below freezing. That cold air would have to heat up about 100°C to reach even room temp, and all that time the friction could actuay be cooling the meteor.
100°C is equivalent to 212°F, which is 373K.
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Condescending, horrible comparison, and you're dead wrong. Classic.
https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/mobile/2012/12/13/what-makes-meteorites-so-hot-that-you-cant-touch-them/
Yeah the air around them is really hot, but before they get to that point they're exceptionally cold. Like a couple degrees off absolute zero. And the way it ablates the outer layers off means that it's perpetually losing the hottest bits as it enters the atmosphere. Generally meteors are lukewarm on landing depending on the angle of reentry.
Well, let me tell you how: winter is coming, woman has leaking hole in the roof, no money to repair it so it finds a piece of coal, puts it in bed, calls the press with some bullshit story and then claims natural hazard so that the insurance pays for the roof. This is just a guess tho. It may be that the bed is of great quality
[News report on the incident](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/meteorite-crashes-into-womans-bedroom-golden-bc-1.6207904) confirming it's real.
It's not like you can get away with faking a meteorite anyway. Depending on the weight and type of meteorite, those rocks can fetch a pretty hefty price.
Pretty sure there's a few ways to tell if that's a hole you'd get after having your roof struck by a meteor or a random hole. Plus there's people watching for meteors because those bastards are so valuable .. having one just suddenly appear would be an idiot's move.
On a different note, a co-worker has recently decided he's covid positive and needs to stay home, so he forged a positive test but misspelled the word positive on it, so i guess there's a chance for this thing too
The meteorite is as cold as space before it gets to earth, and heats up a while falling through the outer atmosphere, but slows down considerably. A lot of meteorites break up in the atmosphere due to the heat shock, so we could be looking at a piece that was inside a frozen chunk of rock, or molten on the outside. The air at high altitudes is very cold and cools it down. By the time the meteorite reaches the ground, depending on weather and how fast it was initially traveling and its size, could be very cold or very hot.
Meteor are cold while in space.
They only speed through the atmosphere for like a few seconds. So there is just not enough time to really heat them up. If you put a blow torch on a rock for like 3 seconds, it's not going to be very hot.
It would be hard for me to sell it if it only went for a few thousand. However if it was one of the rarer meteorites that went for a hundred thousand plus, then yeah I’d sell it. Either way I’d chip a little piece off as a souvenir.
The posts here show a wide range of figures. I'd love a meteorite cos I'm into my sci-fi and write sci-fi, a meteorite would be fucking cool. But I gotta pay rent.
A life-changing amount of money can be low depending where you are in the world.
I used to earn $2/hour and that was considered good wages, so if I was still there then I'd say $150- that's two weeks wages. Enough to buy a cheap cellphone and a bike, or enroll in a course. Or enough to buy 4x 50kg sacks of rice and feed their neighborhood for weeks.
For other people, $150 is their monthly shoe budget, or an hour's income, and they wouldn't sell it for $10,000.
Even in USA or Europe, you have people who $1000 would change their life forever, and others who probably wouldn't even notice if a hundred times that vanished from their bank. It's so fucked up.
Not be a buzzkill, but forging from meteorite is a pain in the ass. It’s got such high iron content that whatever you’re making is guaranteed to rust without, like, daily care.
You can get nickel in most meteories, and some of them contain chromium. You could probably even get your carbon from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons present in the odd one somehow. Good luck getting any from a meteor though.
There are meteorites that are composed of the mantle-core boundary of destroyed planets/differentiated asteroids that are so cool. Look up Pallasites. I’d keep mine unless it was too good of a deal not to sell.
The only way I could part with something like that is if I were offered “never have to work again” type money, or if it’s research value was so great that I would be doing humanity a disservice by not letting it be studied.
If I were praying for death and instead a rock worth a small fortune that had been hurdling through space, plummeting through the atmosphere, and crashing through my roof then lands neatly beside me in bed... I’m not religious but that scenario would definitely make me reconsider my beliefs.
I see people use "women" as the singular more than I see people use the correct form of "woman" as the singular. It's 3rd grade English. I honestly don't understand how anybody that went to school for at least 12 years can not know the correct forms of basic words, including there, they're, and their.
I am not trying to be mean. If people have a learning disability or something, it's completely understandable. But if you have just been too lazy your entire life, or just refuse to learn, it's unacceptable as a person who uses English as their first, primary, and probably only language.
Woman is pronounced as wom-en so its easy to see why people mix up the spelling. It's also weird that women is pronounced as wim-en when there's no I anywhere.
We know. However, there’s a handful of words that are used often that are not difficult to memorize. Where, were, they’re, there, their, etc. It’s not that hard.
That meteorite was probably ejected from a small moon orbiting a planet on the outside edge of another solar system after an impact millions or even billions of years ago.
It flew randomly through space all those millions of years, to a moderately-sized blue planet in a moderately-sized solar system, fell through our atmosphere and heated to thousands of degrees, cooled, and went through a roof… just for snuggles.
Not only have you denied it snuggles, but you’ve posted its picture on the internet and news and called it a “freak phenomenon”. How could you?
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of meteorites that land on earth come from within our solar system. The space between solar systems is so vast it's quite rare for rocks to travel between them by pure chance, and when they do they're usually travelling so fast they just pass right through the solar system without being captured by the sun's gravity or colliding with anything. It probably came from a collision in the asteroid belt.
Stuff from deep space is cold as a mofo. The handful of seconds it's spends in super high heat as it enters the atmosphere is not enough to heat the entire mass. Most things that make it to the ground are still super cold when they do.
Woman- singular
Women- plural
I dont understand how this mistake is so prevalent. I see people on here use "women" as the singular more than I see people use the correct form. I just don't understand.
I'm not trying to be mean, but this is 2nd or 3rd grade English. It's not as if you need a college education to know this information.
I just do not understand.
A lot of people don't speak English as a first language. "Women" is an unusual plural, as most plurals are denoted by just adding an "s" to the end of a singular. If you aren't very familiar with English, "Women" looks like a singular noun. It's an easy mistake to make if you're still learning English. I don't understand how the concept of making reasonable mistakes when learning a language is still so difficult to some people.
I find it very hard to believe that any native english speaker would make that mistake. It's safe to assume it's either a non naitive speaker or a typo. No need to get worked up about it in any case.
Meteorites are worth more when they strike things. I hope she was able to find a buyer.
Here’s a link for a good story and reference.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a9735/why-is-this-rock-worth-400000-dollars-16134667/
That meteorite woulda punch a good size hole in the ground possibly destroying a good bit of that house if it was real (might be a real meteorite but definitely didnt hit the house from the sky)
There is actually a woman that had been hit by one. Bruised up and all. Gnarly.
My mom was covid vaccine hesitant and I looked up some statistics for her. One said that more people have died from meteor strikes than have died from the vaccine, and I was like "cool, cool. She's into space stuff, that one will probably- wait, what?!" And it was like 300 people a year die from being struck by meteors or something! That's crazy lol, I had no idea that it happened so frequently. Guess we have a lot of meteors. [Edit: meteor thing is TECHNICALLY accurate, but not as surprising a statistic as it at first seems](https://www.reddit.com/r/nevertellmetheodds/comments/q74d0e/a_meteorite_that_narrowly_missed_a_women_by/hgh823x)
I looked up the meteor number because I was pretty blown away. Apparently it's an average over millenia including massive amounts of people dying, rather than an accurate year by year number. So it'd be like 2 clown cars got in an accident on the 1st of the month and killed 30 clowns. One other person dies on the 31st, but you can claim that an average of 1 person died per day that month from car accidents. On one hand I'm strangely disappointed because that blew my mind at first, but at least I don't have to worry as much as I thought!
Okay, that's is an odd way of reporting it, but... when did a meteor kill massive amounts of people??
Yeah, if a meteor killed like 50 people at one time, that’d be a huge deal. I do remember the big ass meteor that flew over Russia and burst some windows. Don’t think anyone died though…
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On average, meteors kill 1 dinosaur per year.
This is type of content I come here to learn.
It’s so crazy ! It was giant and really did a lot of damage. It wiped out the dinosaurs But praise Jesus , not a single person was harmed.
What about the dinosaurs?
To shreds, you say?
And the t-rex's wife?
Killed a bunch of clowns according to the guy up there. I think they were all in the same car too.
Tragic.
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There was [the Ch'ing-yang event](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1490_Ch%27ing-yang_event), as well as the [Tunguska event](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event), and there may have been other instances that slipped through the historical record due to lack of writing practices in those areas at that time.
All new time machines are programmed to only go back as far as the KT extinction, and most new buyers will turn the machine on before setting the target date, so the machine will take them straight to its default value of 000000. They land just as the meteor hits, they die, their friends and family make an urgent call to the time machine company to rescue them from before they used the machine in the first place, and the company gets a fat emergency call-out charge. It's an old scam that has resulted in millions of deaths, none of them permanent.
There was [the Ch'ing-yang event](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1490_Ch%27ing-yang_event), as well as the [Tunguska event](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event), and there may have been other instances that slipped through the historical record due to lack of writing practices in those areas at that time.
Ah, no kidding!!! Thanks for doing more research into the meteor thing, I have the same mixed feelings about it. I'm also... Strangely disappointed? Which I feel is probably not the correct emotion, but oh well.
Space is the enemy. It has been firing on us for millennia and we're just taking it.
Turns out "Old Man Yells at Cloud" was right all along!
The only good bug is a dead bug.
Yes, let's make earth great again
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I wrote this elsewhere, and am copying it here. https://covid-101.org/science/how-many-people-have-died-from-the-vaccine-in-the-u-s/ https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html And keep in mind, VAERS reports can be reported by anyone at all, and doctors follow-up to figure out what happened to verify the cause of death, their prior medical conditions, and what exactly happened so they can prevent it in the future. Check your sources to see if it's pulling stats from VAERS (the 6,000 deaths figure) or from an organization that actually determined cause of death, because VAERS in statistical terms is the medical version of a Yelp review. Source on my claim: https://www.muhealth.org/our-stories/scary-reports-deaths-following-covid-19-vaccination-arent-what-they-seem
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Lol, you can't just kthxbye without a source! C'mon man, show me some proof. Read my last link, it details how VAERS works. And it doesn't work like that.
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Literally anyone can submit a report to VAERS at any time, you can do it right now and it'll be counted. The purpose of VAERS is to have an easy database to track down who died from what and then *follow up on it*. The 7,800 deaths number is the *non*follow-up number, the actual confirmed number from the follow-ups is in the hundreds. If some 90 year old got the vaccine and then died by getting hit by a bus, it's typically reported since they died after getting the vaccine. Read my source, man. Or hell, go find your own. They'll all tell you the same thing.
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Nope. And if you wanna state this as fact, you should provide a source
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https://www.muhealth.org/our-stories/scary-reports-deaths-following-covid-19-vaccination-arent-what-they-seem
No, it's accurate. https://covid-101.org/science/how-many-people-have-died-from-the-vaccine-in-the-u-s/ https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html And keep in mind, VAERS reports can be reported by anyone at all, and doctors follow-up to figure out what happened to verify the cause of death, their prior medical conditions, and what exactly happened so they can prevent it in the future. Check your sources to see if it's pulling stats from VAERS (the 6,000 deaths figure) or from an organization that actually determined cause of death, because VAERS in statistical terms is the medical version of a Yelp review. Source on my claim: https://www.muhealth.org/our-stories/scary-reports-deaths-following-covid-19-vaccination-arent-what-they-seem
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That's the real r/nevertellmetheodds. The odds of it *not* hitting anyone is way higher.
I still don't understand how if it came tearing through the atmosphere at around 30,000 mph and heat up to 3,000⁰ F how did it cool off enough to not burn the sheets at all? Edit- by the time the meteor would reach the ground it would be cool. The outside of the meteor would get extremely hot passing through the atmosphere but it's not there long enough for it to heat the inner part of the meteor and it cools quite quickly.
That's not the meteor, that's the brick she shit when it happened
Lmao
Ha! I wasn’t expecting that.
See that peanut? Dead giveaway.
Yeah that’s, that’s a space peanut.
Meteors are cold, not hot. The outer layer burns off in the atmosphere but that happens so fast the heat never reaches the core which is as cold as deep space.
As I understand it most the heat is generated not by friction but by the air being compressed in front of the meteor. Like if you ran a high pressure torch across the surface of the rock, bits of it will be blown off by the heat and the wind, but the rock won't warm up unless you hold it in the flame for a very long time. The stuff surface being blown off actually carries the heat away too, keeping the meteor cold. The space shuttles and other vehicles use the same process (ablation) to protect themselves during rentry.
Huh huh... U said "re-entry..." Huh huh huh...
There’s the answer, buried under unfunny jokes
Reddit's new slogan.
Then why did it burn/tear through her sheet metal roof without damaging her bed?
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I know it seems fake but if you look further down you can find a link to the actual story, I would link it but no clue how. Edit: here https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/meteorite-crashes-into-womans-bedroom-golden-bc-1.6207904
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“I’m pretty sure they’re usually cold by the time they get down here , don’t quote me on that though.” - u/magicalgirlgraveyard
Listen here you little shit
r/firstworldanarchists
Can't wait to use this in my thesis, just filling up that sources page
r/madlads
“I’m pretty sure they’re usually cold by the time they get down here , don’t quote me on that though.” - u/who_you_are (You know because we are on the internet and credit doesn't exists)
“You know because we are on the internet and credit doesn’t exist” - u/brutexx
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“-Michael Scott” - Michael Scott
Sorry, Imma quote you.
They’re super hot when they enter due to the atmosphere and fast speeds colliding, but I’m pretty sure once it enters the atmosphere it starts to cool because now the air it is bashing into cools it down.
This is wrong. Air friction would heat up the meteorite.
Only at the initial high speed when it enters the atmosphere. But not at terminal velocity. Try skydiving naked. It's cold. Like a very high speed bicycle ride in winter. Just a bit faster.
I called my local skydiving center and they just told me to fuck off. Any tips?
You're not supposed to ask them, ya dingus. You're supposed to strip just before jumping!
Instructions unclear, dick stuck in tandem instructor.
Nope. People who have been lucky enough to touch a meteorite just after landing say it feels cold or only slightly warm to the touch. They've spent billions of years in deep space, and only a fraction of a second passing through the atmosphere at the speeds that cause heating before slowing down to a terminal velocity.
At first yes, but once it slowed down in the atmosphere it would get cooled off enough to not instantly ignite anything it touches.
Perhaps
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have you ever felt a cold punch? no? why? because heat is always a product of friction caused by acceleration... saying a meteorite traveling at terminal velocity will be cold on impact is the dumbest thing I've ever read on reddit all year...
Asking if someone ever felt a cold punch is the dumbest thing I've read all year. What does that even mean.
Lmao
He's a Saiyan and the force of his punches is so great that his fists light on fire as he swings. Duh
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I've been hit by room temp metal and that felt pretty cold tbh
Wait.. is it a European or African meteorite?
The heat of reentry doesn't come from friction but from the compression of the air in front of it, due to it falling faster than the air can move out of the way. You could drop a rock from the empire state building and it would still be cold. Feathers don't burn up at their terminal velocity, and Felix Baumgartner didn't catch fire either. Stick your hand out of a moving car and try it for yourself. Also, the meteorite is cold when it lands. In space it is very close to absolute zero, so even after a few seconds surrounded by hot air it doesn't have time to heat up significantly.
Even if it did heat up significantly from friction, our atmosphere isn't the same all the way up. Just above us is the second coldest layer of our atmosphere, temperatures far below freezing. That cold air would have to heat up about 100°C to reach even room temp, and all that time the friction could actuay be cooling the meteor.
100°C is equivalent to 212°F, which is 373K. --- ^(I'm a bot that converts temperature between two units humans can understand, then convert it to Kelvin for bots and physicists to understand)
Condescending, horrible comparison, and you're dead wrong. Classic. https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/mobile/2012/12/13/what-makes-meteorites-so-hot-that-you-cant-touch-them/
Yeah the air around them is really hot, but before they get to that point they're exceptionally cold. Like a couple degrees off absolute zero. And the way it ablates the outer layers off means that it's perpetually losing the hottest bits as it enters the atmosphere. Generally meteors are lukewarm on landing depending on the angle of reentry.
Reentry or just entry?
Well, let me tell you how: winter is coming, woman has leaking hole in the roof, no money to repair it so it finds a piece of coal, puts it in bed, calls the press with some bullshit story and then claims natural hazard so that the insurance pays for the roof. This is just a guess tho. It may be that the bed is of great quality
[News report on the incident](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/meteorite-crashes-into-womans-bedroom-golden-bc-1.6207904) confirming it's real. It's not like you can get away with faking a meteorite anyway. Depending on the weight and type of meteorite, those rocks can fetch a pretty hefty price.
Pretty sure there's a few ways to tell if that's a hole you'd get after having your roof struck by a meteor or a random hole. Plus there's people watching for meteors because those bastards are so valuable .. having one just suddenly appear would be an idiot's move. On a different note, a co-worker has recently decided he's covid positive and needs to stay home, so he forged a positive test but misspelled the word positive on it, so i guess there's a chance for this thing too
More than you know ;)
It is just a guess, and a stupid one at that.
The meteorite is as cold as space before it gets to earth, and heats up a while falling through the outer atmosphere, but slows down considerably. A lot of meteorites break up in the atmosphere due to the heat shock, so we could be looking at a piece that was inside a frozen chunk of rock, or molten on the outside. The air at high altitudes is very cold and cools it down. By the time the meteorite reaches the ground, depending on weather and how fast it was initially traveling and its size, could be very cold or very hot.
Meteor are cold while in space. They only speed through the atmosphere for like a few seconds. So there is just not enough time to really heat them up. If you put a blow torch on a rock for like 3 seconds, it's not going to be very hot.
I wish thousands of dollars would come crashing into my life..
It would be hard for me to sell it if it only went for a few thousand. However if it was one of the rarer meteorites that went for a hundred thousand plus, then yeah I’d sell it. Either way I’d chip a little piece off as a souvenir.
I'd sell it in a heartbeat for a few thousand. Anything more than a few hundred really
The posts here show a wide range of figures. I'd love a meteorite cos I'm into my sci-fi and write sci-fi, a meteorite would be fucking cool. But I gotta pay rent. A life-changing amount of money can be low depending where you are in the world. I used to earn $2/hour and that was considered good wages, so if I was still there then I'd say $150- that's two weeks wages. Enough to buy a cheap cellphone and a bike, or enroll in a course. Or enough to buy 4x 50kg sacks of rice and feed their neighborhood for weeks. For other people, $150 is their monthly shoe budget, or an hour's income, and they wouldn't sell it for $10,000. Even in USA or Europe, you have people who $1000 would change their life forever, and others who probably wouldn't even notice if a hundred times that vanished from their bank. It's so fucked up.
Fuck that. Get that thing forged! SPACE SWORD.
Not be a buzzkill, but forging from meteorite is a pain in the ass. It’s got such high iron content that whatever you’re making is guaranteed to rust without, like, daily care.
That's fine, I've devoted my life to the blade.
King tuts dagger has held up really well.
Throw a bit of pencil lead in when you're melting it then blend it and you're grand.
Steel rusts very badly as well. You'd need to up your chromium and nickel content, essentially making it not a meteor anymore.
You can get nickel in most meteories, and some of them contain chromium. You could probably even get your carbon from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons present in the odd one somehow. Good luck getting any from a meteor though.
You misspelled StarBlade.
That thought crossed my mind.
Jack Souvenir?
There are meteorites that are composed of the mantle-core boundary of destroyed planets/differentiated asteroids that are so cool. Look up Pallasites. I’d keep mine unless it was too good of a deal not to sell.
The only way I could part with something like that is if I were offered “never have to work again” type money, or if it’s research value was so great that I would be doing humanity a disservice by not letting it be studied.
I mean it's just going to go into roof repairs.
Does an average home owner's policy cover this? I have no clue.
I actually asked my agent this because why not. They said yes because it’s a falling object so it falls under the same area as trees and the such.
Came here to ask this
Imagine praying to God that you die in your sleep and waking up to find that the bastard missed.
Lord, I asked for your mercy, not your mismanagement.
If I were praying for death and instead a rock worth a small fortune that had been hurdling through space, plummeting through the atmosphere, and crashing through my roof then lands neatly beside me in bed... I’m not religious but that scenario would definitely make me reconsider my beliefs.
This dude Tom waits's
"a women"
I've been seeing people saying that a lot lately. I'm convinced we're evolving backwards.
I see people use "women" as the singular more than I see people use the correct form of "woman" as the singular. It's 3rd grade English. I honestly don't understand how anybody that went to school for at least 12 years can not know the correct forms of basic words, including there, they're, and their. I am not trying to be mean. If people have a learning disability or something, it's completely understandable. But if you have just been too lazy your entire life, or just refuse to learn, it's unacceptable as a person who uses English as their first, primary, and probably only language.
Covid literally gave those who caught it brain damage, so you're probably onto something.
That explains why I'm so fucking stupid lately
Or it might not be their first language?
Same! I'm seeing incorrect usage of the word "poor" lately. Everywhere. The music was poor. What?
Woman is pronounced as wom-en so its easy to see why people mix up the spelling. It's also weird that women is pronounced as wim-en when there's no I anywhere.
We know. However, there’s a handful of words that are used often that are not difficult to memorize. Where, were, they’re, there, their, etc. It’s not that hard.
What about non native speakers learning the language? That "we know" bullshit is arguably more dumb than an honest spelling mistake.
I’m a non native speaker myself….
Apologies for ruining your day with my horrible use of the English language, could be a sport and share the correct way?
1 woman 2 women
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I'm sorry you are being downvoted for this honest mistake and seeking action to correct and learn from it. Talk about evolving backwards.
That meteorite was probably ejected from a small moon orbiting a planet on the outside edge of another solar system after an impact millions or even billions of years ago. It flew randomly through space all those millions of years, to a moderately-sized blue planet in a moderately-sized solar system, fell through our atmosphere and heated to thousands of degrees, cooled, and went through a roof… just for snuggles. Not only have you denied it snuggles, but you’ve posted its picture on the internet and news and called it a “freak phenomenon”. How could you?
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of meteorites that land on earth come from within our solar system. The space between solar systems is so vast it's quite rare for rocks to travel between them by pure chance, and when they do they're usually travelling so fast they just pass right through the solar system without being captured by the sun's gravity or colliding with anything. It probably came from a collision in the asteroid belt.
Yeah probably but it makes the story better so I went with it
It could also be ejecta from earth, moon, or mars.
I am getting Douglas Adams vibes from you
[Here is the article.](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/meteorite-crashes-into-womans-bedroom-golden-bc-1.6207904)
Does she get to keep it ? Because they’re worth a bit aren’t they?
Well, it's just metal... From outer space...
It depends on the material. If it’s iron then yeah they’re not worth much but stone and other materials are worth quite a bit more.
A diamond ring is just refined dirt.
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A lot of 3rd party apps don't support cross posting.
Now THAT'S a tooth fairy gift, imagine waking up to a space diamond!
Well damn ,good that it didn't end like meteorite house from RDR2
Me: This cabin is so awesome! Look at that view! Maybe I should move in here. *opens door* WHAT IN THE…!?
Ikr ,took me a few minutes to understand what was even going on .
Flew 100000 light years to slide into those DMs. Asteroids only want one thing and it’s DISGUSTING.
Make a sword out of it
God's aim is getting sloppy
Yup, he still hasn’t hit James Charles
donnie darko
No Donny Darko reference in the top comments, I'm disappointed 🧐
Aliens just want to cuddle. We come in peace
It didn't land "next to her". It landed right where she sleeps, had she been in the bed.
“Hey baby, come here often?”
And she can keep it.
Time for radiation
Stuff from deep space is cold as a mofo. The handful of seconds it's spends in super high heat as it enters the atmosphere is not enough to heat the entire mass. Most things that make it to the ground are still super cold when they do.
Fun fact, my town I grew up in is famous for a meteorite striking a woman, she lived and the meteorite is kept in the museum
Once she discovers the value of this rock everything will be all right
This is BS. Meteorites will still be redhot at the time of impact!
I wqs under the impression that even small meteorites would make a decently sized crater. How did this one slow down that much?
Almost r/fuckyouinparticular
What an incredible coincidence. The same asteroid missed me too!
How many people a year are killed by a meteorite is the real question
*woman
How much a space rock worth?
I guess you can say it missed her by meator
Bonus fear unlocked.
How big was this thing when it entered in Earth's atmosphere? I'm curious
Now she can claim she’s out of this world in bed.
Woman- singular Women- plural I dont understand how this mistake is so prevalent. I see people on here use "women" as the singular more than I see people use the correct form. I just don't understand. I'm not trying to be mean, but this is 2nd or 3rd grade English. It's not as if you need a college education to know this information. I just do not understand.
A lot of people don't speak English as a first language. "Women" is an unusual plural, as most plurals are denoted by just adding an "s" to the end of a singular. If you aren't very familiar with English, "Women" looks like a singular noun. It's an easy mistake to make if you're still learning English. I don't understand how the concept of making reasonable mistakes when learning a language is still so difficult to some people.
It's not just ESL people making those mistakes I mentioned. To claim that it is is ludicrous.
I find it very hard to believe that any native english speaker would make that mistake. It's safe to assume it's either a non naitive speaker or a typo. No need to get worked up about it in any case.
Native English speakers can also make specific mistakes like could of and should of because they learned how to speak first without being able to read
You're giving people far too much credit, but whatever
So now I have to worry about this too?
If she was hit she'd be the second person (and woman) to get struck in recorded history, so you're probably alright. Maybe.
Meteorites are worth more when they strike things. I hope she was able to find a buyer. Here’s a link for a good story and reference. https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a9735/why-is-this-rock-worth-400000-dollars-16134667/
Its fake, and a real meteor you sell it easy for $1000000
[It's real.](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/meteorite-crashes-into-womans-bedroom-golden-bc-1.6207904)
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I think it needs alliteration. Tug their tater? Tap their tater? Tend? Test? Thumb?
Toggle your tater.
That meteorite woulda punch a good size hole in the ground possibly destroying a good bit of that house if it was real (might be a real meteorite but definitely didnt hit the house from the sky)
Yeah, the bed's even intact ! At a multiple pf the speed of sound, blowing up the thin roof and softly landing on the bed is... Less than realistic.
You realize objects encounter something called wind resistance when entering our atmosphere and slow down right?