June 12, 2009
a natural object from space
A 14 year old German boy was hit in the hand by a pea-sized meteorite.
“When it hit me it knocked me flying and then was still going fast enough to bury itself into the road,” Gerrit Blank said in a newspaper account. Astronomers have analyzed the object and conclude it was indeed a natural object from space.
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Yes, it was indeed a natural object from space.
Damn it, Deron.
did I get to it first?
You posted it the same time I was posting it. For a brief second, both our posts were up.
[evil laughter]
I was there in that brief second. It was like being in two places at once.
He’s 14. It was traveling at 30,000 mph.
It was the highlight of his life. When he is 70, he will know this to be the case.
True, Lucy. He may go on to achieve worldly fame or acquire riches, conquer empires or the hearts of men and women — but at the end, he will say, “In twenty-ought-nine, I was fourteen years old, and a meteorite — a meteorite from outer space — hit me right smack in the palm of my hand.”
and here is the scar to prove it.
“…travelling at 30,000 miles an hour, and didn’t go through it.”
I think it’s going to become apparent very very soon that this was the highlight of this boy’s life. He will be one of these nostalgists. Or he will run from his fate and meet it like Oedipus did, anyway.
I like the second option, Lucy. Fleeing from being the eternally nostalgic Meterorite Boy, yet running into his fate — bang! like a 30,000 mph meteorite.
Ok I have a screenplay to write.
The screenplay needs to end like Saving Private Ryan: the elderly man asks his wife to tell him he is a good man, and lived a good life.
And she will say, “honey, it was all done by the time you were 14 and you know it.”