Well, I wouldn't put anything past Ben Afleck... maybe that trip to the asteroid with Bruce Willis addled his brain or something... :-)
Not exactly related to meteorite face carving, but when I was in London recently I visited the Tate Britain (which houses the Turner paintings, as opposed to the Tate Modern which has all the trendy, "alternative" stuff) gallery beside the Thames, and there was an exhibit by an artist who used meteorites in her work. Or claimed to. What she did, apparently, was heat an iron meteorite in an oven until it was "red hot" (must have a HECK of an oven!) and then place it on maps to burn areas of them away, making crisp-edged artificial "craters" in cities and towns... I *think* the idea was to mimic the destruction of the said city or town by a meteorite in a "graphical way everyone could appreciate"... or she could just have been taking the ****, I'm not sure. Either way, a typical "work" (an A4 sized map with a 1" hole burned into it) was selling for a LOT of money.
There was a booklet to - also, surprise surprise, extortionately-priced - giving details of the artist's work, which I'm sure included references to "red-hot" meteorites being found smoking in fields in the US... "No dear," I thought, leafing through it with obvious amusement (which didn't go down well with the museum staff nearby!), "that's Kryptonite you're thinking of..."
Speaking of which, how come when I watch it Smallville is never crawling with meteorite hunters? Seems there's chunks of kryptonite everywhere - in streams, fields, walls, caves... each week I expect to see one of our List members in the background bartering with a farm owner... :-)
Stu
