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If we somehow get lucky and don’t kill ourselves first, we’re probably all going to die when a gigantic meteorite slams the crap out of our blue marble. Meteorites hit Earth more than you think! Since 2300 BC, you can see all the meteorites that have pockmarked Earth.
Hell, there might be even more than this! The map, which was created by Javier de la Torre, cofounder of CartoDB, shows the location of the 34,513 recorded points of impact in the past 4000 years. Who knows what kind of space balls are hitting places where people dont’ live, or even the ocean! You don’t realise how often of an occurrence (relatively, of course) a meteorite hit on Earth is until you see this map.
If the tin foil crowd wants to stay safe, should they move to a place that’s already been hit by a meteorite or that’s never been hit? Asking for a friend, of course. See the full map here and find out if where you live has been struck. [CartoDB via Guardian UK, Verge]
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’2300 BC’ Ah, I remember it well.
It’s amazing how none of them have hit the oceans…
Imagine if all of the commercial shipping vessels were all fitted with some standard GPS/underwater mapping rig – that would give us a sweet idea of what these blank spots actually looked like.
Or is there already some kind of global ocean mapping system?
http://topex.ucsd.edu/marine_topo/
just one of the numerous marine topography resources available
If you don’t want to get hit then move somewhere on the bottom of the Earth, the asteroids aren’t going to fall down and hit you if you are on the bottom. Duh!
At least someone around here is thinking this through properly.
I’d say move to the ocean not one hit in the sea, you have to be safe.
The chances of your house burning down are also greatly reduced. Although deaths involving hair dryers or toasters are more of a risk.
An obvious flaw in this research is that it’s only showing recorded points of impact (as stated in the 2nd paragraph) which is quite different from the title and the first paragraphs “every” or “all” meteorites to have hit Earth.
As an example, look at Russia, huge landmass, statistically likely to have been hit a lot but hardly any people in the vast majority of Russia to do any ‘reporting’ or digging into the frozen tundra…
Rather a waste of time study to be honest; who gives money to people to do things like this?
Not to mention the “since 2300 BC” bit, since a cursory glance shows most of them are recorded in 19th and 20th century.
There is only one in London and its classed as a pseudometeorite. Is that one of those frozen turd balls falling out of a plane, like in Meet Joe Dirt?