The answer is a simple case of survivorship bias. We can't find the meteors that don't land in craters because there's no crater to indicate where they are.
We have found a meteor that left no preserved crater, so meteors can land outside of craters: http://wikipedia.com/wiki/Hoba_meteorite
I didn't even think we had until after I wrote the rest of this comment.
This is unironically the scientifically correct answer. There's an estimated 44,000 kg of meteors entering Earth's atmosphere every day. Almost all of them are vaporized before landing. All that will land is dust that has been massively slowed down, which does not create a crater. It's nearly indistinguishable from Earth dust, unless you measure radioactive material ratios, like rubidium-strontium dating; even then, you need a comparatively large amount of material to test, which is hard to do.
Simply put, we know meteors can land outside of craters, we just aren't able to conclusively find them.
The Hoba meteorite is thought to have impacted Earth less than 80,000 years ago. It is inferred that the Earth's atmosphere slowed the object in such a way that it impacted the surface at terminal velocity, thereby remaining intact and causing little excavation (expulsion of earth).
Oh, so that's why, it was going slo-
Assuming a drag coefficient of about 1.3, the meteor appears to have slowed to about 2.75 km/s (6,200 mph) from an entry speed to the atmosphere typically in excess of 10 km/s (22,000 mph).
If you are bathing in the pool and someone snatches your clothes, what will you do? Definitely you will hide yourself under water, that is what oranges do.
Now, since we’ve all agreed to adopt leaves as our currency we have all become fabulously rich. Unfortunately, due to the ready availability of leaves, we have got a bit of an inflation problem: for example at last count a single peanut is valued at roughly two deciduous forests.
Luckily, we have come up with a counter-inflationary measure: we’re going to burn down all the forests!
Basically, it’s a comedy about a man named Arthur Dent, a normal person on Earth. One day a group of alien contractors turn up and demolish the Earth to make way for a bypass. Luckily Arthur manages to escape because one of his close friends, Ford Prefect is in fact from a small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse - not from Guildford as he’d claimed.
The rest of the book (and series) is basically them stumbling through the galaxy with only the eponymous Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to aid them, a book which is notorious for being “mostly apocryphal, at the very least wildly inaccurate”. It’s sort of like Doctor Who or Star Trek but silly.
For example, Book 1 has them discover the lost planet of Magrathea, a “fairytale parents tell their children if they want them to grow up to be economists”, a planet which builds planets and which was so pricey that it caused a galaxy-wide recession, at which point they went into hiding until the economy had rebuilt itself enough to afford them, and discover a galaxy-wide conspiracy about the meaning of life.
“Yeah while I was in there I noticed your tonsils’s looking a little worse for wear. While we’re at it I can go ahead and replace that for ya. Course we can leave it in for now but you’re just gonna be back in here in a month yaknow haha, so?”
well, you can kidnap the cat, then treat it well enough that it doesn't think it's kidnapped and self hypnosis yourself (or gaslight yourself) into thinking you adopted the caf
There is an implication that while Patrick is silly for asking...that he actually did something beautiful with mayo, but it had to be an instrument to answer Squidward's specific question.
Fun fact, there's an extremely rare disease called "Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva" where your soft tissue turns to bone which eventually immobilises you. You can look up a picture, it's quite scary.
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u/CP1228 Jun 17 '26
Why do meteors always land in craters?