This just proves that all those movies with alien attacks happening almost exclusively in the US is statistically more realistic.

I would think the aliens would be smart enough to avoid the part of the planet that gets hit with meteors the most

damn not even giant rocks like the U.S

What would happen if you divided this by a population map?

Nice population map. Should change the title to Reported Meteor Strikes.

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universe doesn't seem to like the Midwest.

Wow it's amazing, almost like meteor strike reports line up with high density areas with internet access

Haha either that or meteors are actively avoiding Brazil.

Your comment doesn’t even make sense… there’s hardly any on both side of the coast with the highest density population,and massive amounts in the dead center with the least amount of population..

There is none in the ocean. There is none in the less developed countries. None in greenland. Population may be the wrong word. Scientific observable area map maybe? Notice there are a lot in India but they seem to respect the imaginary border connecting it to China?

why so many strikes in America?

These are the strikes that were detected. Data is from NASA so they detect more in America.

Meteors seem to really hate Texas and Oklahoma for some reason.

Ah, that explains the "Greenland" movie. Small risk a comet would strike there.

Wow they're almost no strikes in the ocean

Also, why would the aliens ride in on meteors?

I don’t like this projection. Greenland appears larger than the continental United States when it’s really about a fifth of the size or even compare it to Australia.

This means that a huge area of the graphic is dedicated to no data whatsoever whereas the real data is clumped together in the middle areas where a greater level of detail would be more helpful.

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More like a map of where people notified NASA about meteors striking. An actual map of meteor strikes would probably have a normal distribution.

And the oceans…this is a clear case of survivorship bias.

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It has to do with a guy who collected meteorites during the Depression

https://monnigmuseum.tcu.edu

I think I've seen this one before!

Yep! A hundred years ago people noticed that meteorites were easy to find in Kansas - flat land with deep soil and without any rocks, so if you did find one, it was probably a meteorite. Museums sent out people to do their collecting there. It became a joke - the gods hate Kansas. There's a pulp novel with that title

I mean kinda. The highest density meteor strikes are in the central US, which many parts have very low population density. My guess would it could also have something to do with great visibility of the sky/ fewer trees to block viewing further away and closer to the horizon.

Guessing no one in Siberia is reporting meteor strikes. Didn't expect neptune to be such a slacker though

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Is this a map of under explored sectors of Earth ?

what is meteor strike per se... does it mean, the meteor has struck the ground or only seen in the sky... because I'm from the part of India which is dotted quite much... and have yet to see a single meteor strike

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God: Fuck you in particular USA.

This is actually a really cool way to show survivorship bias.