Comments on Shallow Impact

I'm embarrassed for Stephen King here. He sometimes manages to grab some bit part in his movies ("The Stand" comes to mind) and it's just painful to watch.

meteorite

considering that metorites are more valuable than gold, I will take the risk and pick it up anyway.

Wow, King is even worse as an actor than he is as a "novelist".

When I was 9, a meteorite landed in our back yard in Texas. It was about the size of my dad's closed fists.

I'll always remember that day. Meteorites remind us we're not the only place in the universe.

I don't think we knew they were valuable back then.

We got flooded with calls in the KXLY 4 Newsroom (Spokane) this morning of people describing the meteor, which everyone agreed was a pretty incredible sight. A local business captured footage of it on surveillance, which you can watch here.

Broken link, Brian.

Meteorites are not valuable, though people who've had one hit their property are always convinced they are. You can buy one online for less than $25: http://www.meteorites-for-sale.com/

Meteorites were the first iron that humans learned to work, though. A pretty penny back in the day, I imagine.

Fnarf, buying a meteorite is way less cool than finding one yourself.

Meteorite my ass! That was a UFO, friends! My brother lives in "Southwest Adams County, near SR 26 and Lind-Hatton Road" (Othello). I'll tell him to watch out for zombies and Daleks.

Well, gillsans, just so long as they keep away from the Torchwood base in Fremont, we should be safe.

Fnarf, those are like the dimebags of meteorites. shwag. Some meteorites, like the ones that fall from the sky and have the marks on the outside from burning in the atmosphere can go for 1600 dollars a gram. That is not dirtweed prices my friend.

Like hell they do, Wisepunk. Even the jazziest, most melty, pockmarked meteorites on Ebay go for $500 a rock, big rocks too; look at it, there are a ton of them. It's a myth.