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Screenshot of text: In the conclusion of your paper, you write that you have “a very high degree of confidence that the purported fragments of the meteor recovered from the seafloor have nothing to do with the fireball” — and therefore, that the stuff plucked from the ocean floor was probably just stuff from Earth, or maybe a bit of the thousands of tons of meteorites that reach Earth every year. So we shouldn’t worry that aliens are invading our hospitals? You’d be quite reasonably justified in not worrying about aliens invading hospitals. What’s the bigger lesson from all this? There are two: One, if you want to do seismic analysis, it’s ideal if you check with a seismologist first. The other is, it’s not aliens.