Actually, they don’t always. The Diplomatic Office for Non-Terrans has a procedure for the Meteor Impact Site Selection. Their Agency for Impact Mitigation picks a suitable place, and sends a team to prepare an “Excavated Area for Controlled Touchdown per the Treaty for Arrival and Reception of Guests and Envoys on Terra”. The meteors then adjust their their Host Impact Trajectory to make sure they land on the ExACT TARGET.
Occasionally, of course, things don’t go to plan. In such cases, the meteors’ Orders for Host Conflict Resolution and Avoidance Procedures dictate that they perform a Fatality Unavoidability Check. If the FUCk comes up positive, they’re supposed to follow the quite morbidly named “Instructions to Limit Liability for Diplomatic Incidents and Emergencies”.
Not every meteor has the nerves for that, unfortunately, so some of them do hit places they’re not supposed to, with disastrous consequences, but for the most part, DONT MISS works well enough.
Also why is it that meteors always seem to land in craters? Someone really should look into that…
Actually, they don’t always. The Diplomatic Office for Non-Terrans has a procedure for the Meteor Impact Site Selection. Their Agency for Impact Mitigation picks a suitable place, and sends a team to prepare an “Excavated Area for Controlled Touchdown per the Treaty for Arrival and Reception of Guests and Envoys on Terra”. The meteors then adjust their their Host Impact Trajectory to make sure they land on the ExACT TARGET.
Occasionally, of course, things don’t go to plan. In such cases, the meteors’ Orders for Host Conflict Resolution and Avoidance Procedures dictate that they perform a Fatality Unavoidability Check. If the FUCk comes up positive, they’re supposed to follow the quite morbidly named “Instructions to Limit Liability for Diplomatic Incidents and Emergencies”.
Not every meteor has the nerves for that, unfortunately, so some of them do hit places they’re not supposed to, with disastrous consequences, but for the most part, DONT MISS works well enough.
It’s magnetic attraction!