I think the moon landing happened, but I could see how you wouldn’t believe it. I mean they did this in the 60s but since then we’ve done, what exactly? Ooh we sent a robot to Mars, wow! There were more interesting space discoveries on Lost in Space and that show was fundamentally about an old man f’ing a kid while a robot ran around pretending it wasn’t happening. If they put together a space program in less than a decade, we should at least be colonizing on the moon by now. Not that it’d be so amazing. People live in/on rocks here on Earth too. They’re called terrorists, and their lifestyle seems less glamorous than their lice-ridden beards will lead you to believe.

The five-pound meteorite that crashed into a Park Forest home in 2003 was bought by a private collector for $50,787.50 Sunday during an auction by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions.

David Herskowitz, director of natural history at Heritage, says it’s the Garza’s provenance that makes it exceptional.

“The added value of this meteorite is that it hit a man-made object,” Herskowitz said. “And that’s extraordinary. They usually land in the desert, the ocean or the polar ice cap and are never found.”

Herskowitz says wealthy collectors aren’t the only ones who find meteorites, fossils and dinosaurs fascinating.

“Most people find this sort of thing really cool,” he said. “We can’t get enough of them. That’s the reason natural history museums remain so popular.”

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