Why do Aliens Hate Radivoje Lajic?

A Belgrade man says his house gets bombarded by meteorites; wonders who is to blame
Alien Attack: Photo by 20th Century Fox

Radivoje Lajic thinks aliens don't like him. The Bosnian man says his home has been hit by meteorites no less than five times. He took the rocks to experts at Belgrade University, who confirmed that they are the real thing. But they haven't been able to verify that Lajic did anything to anger the extraterrestrials, or that he's the target of some extra-planetary prank. Still, Lajic seems sure this isn't just a coincidence.

Ananova quotes him as saying: "I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don't know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense. The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit five times has to be deliberate . . . am being targeted by aliens. They are playing games with me. I don't know why they are doing this."

The Belgrade University researchers are now investigating local magnetic fields to see if there's anything funky about the town, or his house, that might prove attractive to space rocks.

Via boingboing

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Stealth173
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Next time a spaceship will park not properly in his backyard. That sounds like a cheap story sold to a yellow newspaper.

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pwolschen
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Around 50,000 meteorites over 10 grams hit the earth every year. The earth has an area around 150,000,000 km2. so that means that on average 1 meteorite over 10 grams strikes 30,000,000 km2. Thats a large area. well the article does not mention the time span so if we assume a time span of 10 years. then on average that means 10 meteorites per 30,000,000 per 10 years. that leaves a probability of .0000003 of being struck once. while this may not be very high, there will always be events that are very improbable and eventually someone's house will be hit by 5 meteorites.

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pwolschen
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Sorry my math was a bit off. it should be 1 meteorite over 10 grams strikes 3000 km2 per year. thats a probability of .033% that a km2 will be hit in a year. the chance that this occurs 5 times in 10 years then becomes .00034%. now thats per km2 but as you can see its not impossible

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tryingtothink

from Pearland, TX

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lets say the guy has a nice house, 400m2
1000mx1000m=1000000m2
1000000m2/400m2=2500
.00034%/2500=
.000000136%
that's a pretty damn small number

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crackpot
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well i saw this one tv show forgot what it was called. where there was this one weird kid had some kind of mistical power and every day rocks or meteorites hits his house.

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Zazzy
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whoever said aliens controls where meteorites go?

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Floyster

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If aliens do actually exist, why would they take out their anger in such an inefficient way? And what could he have possibly done to annoy them? I'm sure that aliens who could direct meteorites onto someone's house would have far more sophisticated technology that they could use to greater effect. Maybe it's just the one house. He should move across the state and see if the meteorites follow him.

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aquiros
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I forgot the name of the meteor, but it was the one that was broken up by the gravity of Jupiter and then hit jupiter as a string of meteors. Could it be something similar?

What if the scientist looked at the compostion of the 5 meteors to see if it's from the same meteor. The likelihood of the same meteor hitting the same house over a long period of time would be small, but over a short period of time it would be more likely. Also, who is to say that pieces of the same meteor did not hit elsewhere as well.

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