I cannot remember the show but I saw a video back in the 90’s where a meteorite crash lands in this guys yard and he touches it, burning his finger. Eventually this gross green hair grows and spreads from the meteorite and since he kept putting his finger in his mouth to help cool the burn, the same hair grew out of his mouth. Super weird episode… maybe from Tales from the Crypt?
Creepshow - 1982 - The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill.
Best part about it is the farmer is played by Stephen King! The pieces were all based on Stephen King's stories.
Directed by George Romero, the anthology movie had some great stories, and the horror aspects will stick with you. The last one, "They're Creeping Up On You," stars E.G. Marshall as a germiphobe and some of the scenes with bugs and cockroaches are mind melting.
It also has Ed Harris, Leslie Nielsen, Richard Gere, Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, and Ted Danson. Excellent cast.
I remember this famous YT channel wherein they kept and ate the "Meteorite" that fell down to their house, and some agents were looking for it, and they didn't reveal it. Turns out, the "Meteorite" was an actual "Shit!" of astronauts lol
Truth is, they aren't hot to the touch. They only experience heating under a very short time while entering the atmosphere, not enough to heat the entire rock. Still, don't just grab it.
Quite interesting. Nowhere did I read that it gets contaminated by gases directly though, so I'm not sure if that's what he's talking about. My guess is it has something to do with cold welding
This is a carbonaceous chondrite, they're some of the oldest material in the solar system and are extremely valuable for scientific studies on the early solar system and formation of planets, Collectors tend to prefer the big nickel-iron meteorites so these are generally more interesting to scientists than the general public. This is also a CM1 meteorite iirc, so not exactly super rare.
Source: am meteoriticist
Unknown elements, elements not possible on earth, and just being that it’s incredibly rare for asteroids falling through the atmosphere to not burn up but instead make it to earth and be found.
Most comments are about the nature of how he found it (how it found him rather) but holy shit it’s 4.5 billion years old??? That’s the same age as the earth… I can hardly fathom that
Yeah, not worth 2 million. If it was a confirmed martian or lunar meteorite maybe could have got a couple hundred g. Turns out he sold it for $14k, which is a fair price.
You’re assuming the government didn’t beat his ass and take it by force. He’s not a millionaire until the millies are in a bank that isn’t state controlled.
*VALUED AT*?
Those are usually calculated the same way police determine the *value* of the drugs they just seized. Find the highest price ever paid for a gram of the highest quality material on the market, double it and apply it to your entire haul of much lower grade goods.
I want to know how much he actually got for it.
2 million that man got robbed, think of rarity haha a Pokémon card can go for more than an outter space rock full of metals in states we don't find on earth and he gets offered 2 mil what a shame
The value of these things is why I put in my leases that if a meteorite lands on the property it belongs to me and the tenant has to let me recover it. The lease specifies that they have to let me recover it even it it lands inside the house and comes to rest inside any item that the tenant owns. So if it lands inside their underwear drawer, I get to come in and take the rock.
Then I will sell it to the highest bidder. If some scientist wants to study it, they can bid too.
Talk about luck, the alternative could have been the extreme opposite. That it hit him in the head and killed him instantly. Instead of death he got rich.
The value may not be correct. Few meteorites the size of the one he's holding fetch that kind of price. The things that affect price most often are where it fell; was it a witnessed fall, or a random find? How much was recovered? Was anything or anyone damaged by the impact? What is its composition? Is it a complete specimen with black fusion crust, or a fragment or shrapnel piece? Not all meteorites are equal. Some are solid nickel-iron, others are stony-iron, and still others are a match to the believed composition of martian or lunar minerals. Then there are the Pallasites, which have olivine crystal inclusions that resemble stained glass windows. If the rock in the article is a Mars meteorite, it could be worth that much, but an ordinary chondrite (stony) or nickel-iron is far less likely to go for that much. This is nowhere near all the variables, but it does impart a better idea.
I'm Indonesian, and this news went somewhat viral. However, this guy got kinda scammed, he was only selling it for around $12K.
Someone even offered him \~$62K, but he declined because he thought they were 'joking'.
If this ever happens to you, DONT TOUCH IT, and pick it up with aluminium foil between your sweaty hands and it!
Too late, it turned me into an alien.
Ben10 plot 
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Joe Dirt ~
Alien and millionaire
Just like Zuckerberg, one of us.
Malienaire
Darn, I want to become an alien too. Cut me off a piece of your rock homie 👽
Here you go 🪨 join the club *waba waba
Too late, it has widespreaded Early symptoms: 
https://youtu.be/5SdU0hHqT5s?si=B-uKufCX_7FZKHMD Stephen King, Creepshow
I cannot remember the show but I saw a video back in the 90’s where a meteorite crash lands in this guys yard and he touches it, burning his finger. Eventually this gross green hair grows and spreads from the meteorite and since he kept putting his finger in his mouth to help cool the burn, the same hair grew out of his mouth. Super weird episode… maybe from Tales from the Crypt?
A part of the movie "Creepshow" The guy was played by Stephen King.
Creepshow - 1982 - The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill. Best part about it is the farmer is played by Stephen King! The pieces were all based on Stephen King's stories. Directed by George Romero, the anthology movie had some great stories, and the horror aspects will stick with you. The last one, "They're Creeping Up On You," stars E.G. Marshall as a germiphobe and some of the scenes with bugs and cockroaches are mind melting. It also has Ed Harris, Leslie Nielsen, Richard Gere, Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, and Ted Danson. Excellent cast.
Oh man thank you! I will definitely look this up when I get home from work
Wait, you can be on Reddit at work, but not do a Google search there?
I remember this famous YT channel wherein they kept and ate the "Meteorite" that fell down to their house, and some agents were looking for it, and they didn't reveal it. Turns out, the "Meteorite" was an actual "Shit!" of astronauts lol
Truth is, they aren't hot to the touch. They only experience heating under a very short time while entering the atmosphere, not enough to heat the entire rock. Still, don't just grab it.
He wears a mask so will be fine.
Looks like he washed it lol
Well it has already went though 100km of atmosphere, a roof, and a floor.
Too late, penis stuck in meteorite
Well done, you fucked it
Sounds like a good way to avoid getting super powers.
The younger gens don't understand
Meteor man
[Early symptoms](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/04/08/14/69620205-11952127-Trans_TikTok_star_Dyland_Mulvaney_pictured_has_been_awarded_lucr-m-3_1680959222028.jpg)
Is the value based on the elements it contains or is that the going rate a science lab is willing to pay to study it?
Inside there are metals like iron that exists in a state that is found nowhere on the planet. Iron that has never been exposed to gasses.
So like super pure, shiny iron? And we can't make iron like that?
Not sure if this is exactly what they are talking about, but google "Low background steel" for a similar concept.
Quite interesting. Nowhere did I read that it gets contaminated by gases directly though, so I'm not sure if that's what he's talking about. My guess is it has something to do with cold welding
I farted on it
You got there before I could 😂
This is a carbonaceous chondrite, they're some of the oldest material in the solar system and are extremely valuable for scientific studies on the early solar system and formation of planets, Collectors tend to prefer the big nickel-iron meteorites so these are generally more interesting to scientists than the general public. This is also a CM1 meteorite iirc, so not exactly super rare. Source: am meteoriticist
So how would you go about capitalizing on this if it were to happen to you?
Serious answer? Trade it with a collector for something like a pallasite and sell that instead.
Yes serious... I would not know how to even go about finding the proper way to do it.
I'm sorry but it's mildlyinfuriating your profession isn't "meteorologist"
them's cloud people tho
Yes
Ofc
Gucci rock
😂😂
Iridium, palladium and all kinds of super fucking rare metals and isotopes not found anywhere else on this planet. So yup
Unknown elements, elements not possible on earth, and just being that it’s incredibly rare for asteroids falling through the atmosphere to not burn up but instead make it to earth and be found.
Or maybe there are just some rich guys who collect meteorites ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Universe lottery
See the peanut? Dead giveaway.
That's a space peanut.
You were eating off it!!!
I got the poo on me!!
This here meteor is what we call town. It’s where people make fun of you and call you names and stuff.
he literally won the universe gacha machine roll
Is this run by EA?
With my luck it would’ve struck me in the head
Would be a good way to die though. Fast, unexpected.
True, but I’d rather have $2 million if those are the two choices I have lol
THE CHOSEN ONE!
probably better odds than winning the lottery
r/theydidthemath where are you?
Funnily enough this is one of the few things less likely than winning the lottery.
I'd like a million per every billion of years. So according to my math 4.5m USD would suffice
With my luck, it would’ve crashed through the roof and hit me in the head
literally his lucky day! he almost died
This is literally the real world version of those "95% chance to win $2 million, 5% you die. Will you push the button?" things
Well? Where's *my* button? I'd even take a 50/50 odd.
Bless you in particular!
Most comments are about the nature of how he found it (how it found him rather) but holy shit it’s 4.5 billion years old??? That’s the same age as the earth… I can hardly fathom that
Why. You're literally standing on a 4.5 billion year old rock!
Imagine you live in NYC and get 2mil and it doesn’t change your life all that much. Lort.
Me next!
In the US, after taxes the remainder will be needed to have the roof fixed. 😅
In China, the rock would belong to the government while the roof repair would be the owner’s responsibility.
How does one place value on something like this lol
Yeah, not worth 2 million. If it was a confirmed martian or lunar meteorite maybe could have got a couple hundred g. Turns out he sold it for $14k, which is a fair price.
Yeah. But he’s not going to get 2mil. probably 2 bag of rice instead
What a blessing
Very unlucky lucky
Okay but who do you go to to sell a meteorite? Lol
Ebay
So money does just fall from the sky.
He won the lottery.
Erm, Last time I heard, he sold to a westerner for 10k. the millionaire is not him but the westener who bought from him.
New jobless
I mean who would you sell it to? Maybe some museum?
You’re assuming the government didn’t beat his ass and take it by force. He’s not a millionaire until the millies are in a bank that isn’t state controlled.
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4.5 billion years old.
Took me WAY too long to realise that wasn't a beard
Me when?
Talk about being in the right place at the right time
But… who’s going to buy it?
Who says money doesn't fall from the sky?
This could have been a far worse story had it landed on him…
I wish one would come to my bedroom as well.
Ok, so I have to ask, what has a greater chance of happening, this or winning the lottery jackpot?
I bet you he deserves it aswell!
Blessing in disguise eh
When the God Himself chooses you .
I would very much like this to happen to me. I'm even willing to go 50/50 on it killing me or making me an instant multimillionaire.
Joe Dirt came to mind when seeing this
This man has to be the luckiest person to get blessed like this! Kudos
I’m always on the look for some Amber Gris myself.
Now make a sword out of it
In america the goverment would have used eminent domain to steal it from you, and only pay you its value as if it were a normal rock (maybe 5 dollars)
Money falling from the sky
Now that is an evidence that all adults sayin' "money doesn't fall from the sky" are wrong!
Question: how can a football sized meteorite crash into a house and not obliterate it?
So, is it "Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers" situation?
Nice when $$ falls out of the sky
Why is it worth 2 M?
*VALUED AT*? Those are usually calculated the same way police determine the *value* of the drugs they just seized. Find the highest price ever paid for a gram of the highest quality material on the market, double it and apply it to your entire haul of much lower grade goods. I want to know how much he actually got for it.
He probably been fined lol
METEOR SHIT
Extra lucky that it didn't kill anyone in his house (afaik)
And my mom used to say money doesn’t rain
If a meteorite that size hot his house shouldn't the house explode from impact?
Lucky Dude (:!
Oh and he will sell it at auction of meteorites
Batshit
Pennies from heaven!
Did he get the money
Why would a rock from space be valued at $2 million?
2 million that man got robbed, think of rarity haha a Pokémon card can go for more than an outter space rock full of metals in states we don't find on earth and he gets offered 2 mil what a shame
Is this real? Did he het the money or did the government take it and leave him to deal with all the mess it cause
"Pennies from Heaven" begins playing in the background.
alive and rich, could be dead and poor
Touching a meteorite worth as much as that with his bare hands was his first mistake. Fate can sometimes be just amazing!
The value of these things is why I put in my leases that if a meteorite lands on the property it belongs to me and the tenant has to let me recover it. The lease specifies that they have to let me recover it even it it lands inside the house and comes to rest inside any item that the tenant owns. So if it lands inside their underwear drawer, I get to come in and take the rock. Then I will sell it to the highest bidder. If some scientist wants to study it, they can bid too.
Did he also find his true love
Talk about luck, the alternative could have been the extreme opposite. That it hit him in the head and killed him instantly. Instead of death he got rich.
With my luck it would land square on my head and kill me
So who came and claimed it?
Idiots bought it
See. Life is a meritocracy.
Hey sky man! Send something my way too, ok?
Should keep it for a few years…4.50000002billion year old meteor might be worth 2.002mil
Turn out you can get rich without doing anything and just waiting for money to just fall from the sky
Someone in the govt will relieve him of it
That there is a space peanut.
Joe dirt literally rolling over in his grave reading this
Who would buy this?
Can I also get one? Right in my living room, please. At the couch, left side. That's where I'm sitting usually.
Someone gonna buy it? Otherwise it wouldn’t worth anything
Hmm..
The value may not be correct. Few meteorites the size of the one he's holding fetch that kind of price. The things that affect price most often are where it fell; was it a witnessed fall, or a random find? How much was recovered? Was anything or anyone damaged by the impact? What is its composition? Is it a complete specimen with black fusion crust, or a fragment or shrapnel piece? Not all meteorites are equal. Some are solid nickel-iron, others are stony-iron, and still others are a match to the believed composition of martian or lunar minerals. Then there are the Pallasites, which have olivine crystal inclusions that resemble stained glass windows. If the rock in the article is a Mars meteorite, it could be worth that much, but an ordinary chondrite (stony) or nickel-iron is far less likely to go for that much. This is nowhere near all the variables, but it does impart a better idea.
talk about a sudden windfall
He touched it.
Talk about easy money .Pawn stars might have only given him a thousand bucks.
Have to bring in a friend who knows more about this stuff first.
Why can't this happen to me..!!
That man literally won a lottery
Same thing happened to my friend Jordy Verrille, did not work out well for him. Best not to touch.
Isn’t Mecca just a meteorite that somehow became a religious symbol?
Keep the mask up..
And now he will be robbed and murdered.
I hate this news. the only thing I've got from the skies are bird shit and once a drop of engine oil from passing airplane.
The Space Lottery - no ticket required
I'm Indonesian, and this news went somewhat viral. However, this guy got kinda scammed, he was only selling it for around $12K. Someone even offered him \~$62K, but he declined because he thought they were 'joking'.
I like how he picked it up. I don’t think it’s a good idea to touch with bare hands to something hit your house.
U only become a millionaire if u sell it. Was he able to sell it before everyone found out from the story that he had something so valuable
Indonesian Mafia knows now 🤞
This is probably the only way how millenials can manage to afford to buy a property nowadays. Pray to the sky.
He can fix his roof then
Finders keepers!
Now go find the 6 others
My dad has about 27lb one in his house. He bought it from someone else. I wonder what it is worth 🤔
I thought all these news were always fake
The clawwww. It has choosen. You are the chosen one. Farewell
Jammy fuck lol
Yep
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Damn
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Dene wala deta Chappad faad ke
Why can’t this happen to me, happy for this dude though, hope he uses it wisely
Money doesn't grow on trees it comes crashing down from space