For millions of years that rock was going to hit that person. Just. Waiting.

From the very beginning, you were always going to be where you're at right now.

Shhhh. Nobody wants that realization.

Eh, it's not so bad once you realize that free will can only exist due to the crushing grasp of determinism.

the whole reason we are conscious is to make executive decisions. we just don't have any choice in what those decisions will be. this is a read only universe. #fakeuniverse

Of course we have a choice, that's what determinism is for, to make choices. A choice is a necessary, consciously imposed relation between past and future. If there were multiple possible outcomes, it wouldn't be a choice because it wouldn't be in our control.

Philosophical free will is terminally confused, because it mixes up map and territory; it confuses the speculative imagined futures in our decisionmaking procedure with actually existing, physically real universes. To make a decision, we create speculative fictional mental universes conditioned on different choices we make, rank them by preference, then "decide" on the one that is the most favored. Now of course the output of that function was predetermined from the start, but we did not have access to it. So we compute it, and the process of computing it is what 'choosing' is.

The universe isn't fake, our minds are fake.

I have an acquaitance who got hit; he didn't realize it until the next day, though. It was probably literally a meteorite and not a meteor.

It was during one of the showers (Leonids?). He was outside watching the show, and felt something hit his leg. He looked around the next day and found a little piece of rock that looked likely. Sent if off for analysis and it was verified as a meteorite. He thinks it bounced off the ground before it hit him, so was technically a meteorite and not a meteor.

If you get hit by one it’s a meteorite. Meteors burn up in the upper atmosphere.