I always loved the factoid about meteorites that–

–wait, is it a factoid? It’s a factoid before it enters the atmosphere, right? And then it’s a fact, until it hits the ground and becomes a factite–

(Okay sorry, I’m easily distracted.)

Anyway. I love the factoid that no human has ever been killed by a meteorite.

(oh wait. Shit. Is that because it’s not a meteorite until it hits the ground, and your head doesn’t count as the ground??? —no. focus, Aster. Focus.)

No, from what I’ve read, I think it actually includes all space rocks. The idea is that no rock falling from space ever killed any human.

But… one did kill a lot of dinosaurs, right?

(That was an asteroid. Meaning it was, like, me, but before I enter the atmosphere– shut up and focus Aster dammit lol)

But it didn’t kill them by landing on their heads and squashing them flat, right?

At least– not most of them.

Most of them it killed indirectly, by causing other changes to the world they lived in.

Right?

So, any dinosaur that died of starvation… due to its food going extinct… due to climate change… due to volcano eruptions… due to the asteroid?

That dinosaur was killed by the asteroid.

But

If we’re counting causes of death that were that indirect?

Then you gotta consider:

If that mass extinction hadn’t happened, we likely wouldn’t have ever evolved. Certainly not in the exact same form we exist today. Just too many things would be different, right? Without the extinction of dinosaurs… any individual human you’ve ever heard of? would never have even been born.

and therefore would never have died.

conclusion

the factoid about space rocks has hit the ground, and is now incorrect.

ALL HUMANS ARE KILLED BY SPACE ROCKS

well. One space rock. Same one that got the dinosaurs.

Just a few extra steps for us.

….